weakly-built

Updated: June 8, 2025

At the time of Lilia's death Philip Herriton was just twenty-four years of age indeed the news reached Sawston on his birthday. He was a tall, weakly-built young man, whose clothes had to be judiciously padded on the shoulders in order to make him pass muster. His face was plain rather than not, and there was a curious mixture in it of good and bad.

E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster - Where Angels Fear to Tread