" The Dogman?" He looked grey. Grey-clothed, grey-haired, grey-faced, like the life had leaked out of him to leave a wispy husk a sudden gust might whisk away. "The man looks a touch past his best."

Shivers cast a lazy eye towards Scale, and back. He had a way of saying a lot with a few words. "Least he had one. "

― Joe Abercrombie , A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)