too-tightly

Updated: May 5, 2025

Now one and now another stretched out and slept without covering; for so, directly under the path of the sun, had they slept nakedly from the time they were born. Remained awake, as dawn paled the dark, only the grievously wounded or the too-tightly bound, and the decrepit ancient who was not so old as Bashti.

Jack London - Jerry of the Islands