well-scored

Updated: July 9, 2025

Here was no effort at concealment, but rather a making sure, in most brutal and callous fashion, that early discovery must be unavoidable. The bucolic mind works in well-scored grooves. Receiving no assistance from his master, Bates pulled the body a little farther up on the strip of gravel so that it lay clear of the water. "I mum fetch t' polis," he said.

Louis Tracy - The Postmaster's Daughter