Johnyxxx
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Hi,
Can a good soul explain me the meaning of the sentence "... its haggard gloom abroad in their pinched faces!"
The paragraph it is included in reads as follows:
Brent looked after him wondering, but as he swept his gaze about him much of his wonder vanished. All around, the wan country seemed to rock giddily beneath those lowering skies, so heavy with the ram that never fell; all around, the sailing uplands seemed to heave and yearn under the sad tooting of the damp November wind. Oh, he could well imagine that the men of this weary, twilight region would be worn and old before their time, with its sinister stare in their eyes and its haggard gloom abroad in their pinched faces!
The source "The Bad Lands" by John Metcalfe
http://www.donaldcorrell.com/road/metcalfe/badlands.html
Thak you if you try to help.
Can a good soul explain me the meaning of the sentence "... its haggard gloom abroad in their pinched faces!"
The paragraph it is included in reads as follows:
Brent looked after him wondering, but as he swept his gaze about him much of his wonder vanished. All around, the wan country seemed to rock giddily beneath those lowering skies, so heavy with the ram that never fell; all around, the sailing uplands seemed to heave and yearn under the sad tooting of the damp November wind. Oh, he could well imagine that the men of this weary, twilight region would be worn and old before their time, with its sinister stare in their eyes and its haggard gloom abroad in their pinched faces!
The source "The Bad Lands" by John Metcalfe
http://www.donaldcorrell.com/road/metcalfe/badlands.html
Thak you if you try to help.