Fuente de la expresión
Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases
Contexto
All were flabby and discoloured, as all tramps are under their deceptive sunburn. Two or three figures wen there stay ineradicably in my mind. Old 'Daddy', aged seventy-four, with his truss, and his red, watering eyes, a herring-gutted starveling with sparse beard and sunken cheeks, looking like the corpse of Lazarus in some primitive picture: an imbecile, wandering hither and thither with vague giggles, coyly pleased because his trousers constantly slipped down and left him nude. But few of us were greatly better than these; there were not ten decently built men among us, and half, I believe, should have been in hospital.
Tipo de fuente
book
Autor
George Orwell
Título de la fuente
The Spike, in Fifty Orwell Essays [ebook]
Año
1931
Web
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0300011.txt
Idioma
English
Nivel de uso
Sin definir
Marca dialectal
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Frecuencia
Raro