woe-encircled

Updated: August 25, 2026

Better that your ships be shambles, where men could die like men, sending Nelson's royal message all along the armoured line; better that our best and bravest found a grave where grey waves curl towards our coastline, than that our womanhood should look with woe-encircled eyes into the wolfish mouth of war.

A. G. (Alfred Greenwood) Hales - Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900): Letters from the Front