underspaces

Updated: May 3, 2025

Away in the distance was a beautiful tree-shaded granite hill with much show of brown foliage and purplish underspaces. His eyes followed mine the way of the flames. 'Hurray! he said heartily. 'Now we shan't be so very long surely after all. Don't you see the green grass on its way? It was a snug corner, verily, for the old dry stuff. Look, how the flames leap up in the thick of it!

Arthur Shearly Cripps - Cinderella in the South: Twenty-Five South African Tales