He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him...

He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Scenes of Childhood (1981)

Sylvia Townsend Warner Quotes

He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.

He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.

He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.

He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.