workhorse's

Updated: May 11, 2025

He had no more imagination than one of his own reports. He had a long, sad face, like a tired workhorse's, and heavy black eyebrows that curved high in the middle and arched downward at each end circumflexes accenting the incurable stupidity of his expression. His black mustache drooped the same way, too, in the design of an inverted magnet.

Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb - The Escape of Mr. Trimm: His Plight and other Plights