单词 | dingily |
例句 | Like Powell, Kynaston is attracted by people who make compromises, accept second-best, live dingily and submit quietly without relinquishing hope. Modernity Britain: Opening the Box by David Kynaston – review 2013-06-15T07:01:01Z She had saved him from the second-rate, dingy life he had been so dingily ready to accept. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z In a dingily furnished room, sitting on a molting, plush sofa I saw the curious little man to whom I had so taken months ago. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z That meant first turning right and running towards the ugliest part of the towpath run instead, a section that takes you dingily under the North Circular and past a bus garage. Running London: Leg 27 - Edmonton Green to Woodford 2011-04-12T17:56:00Z But the church that had once seemed so inspiring now struck him as dingily and poorly designed, without any of the mystery which once had made it beautiful. Sinister Street, vol. 1 He saw Gwendolen in London and gave her and her boys tea at his rooms, the dingily comfortable rooms near Manchester Square from which for many years he had not had the initiative to move. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Squat, massive, in places heavily ornate, in others dingily bare, it was a mere surface replica of pristine architecture, at best, a caricature. Thirty But she never knew what Mrs. Meeker would have done, for when the tired, drudging little woman brought her breakfast tray she held it in dingily gloved hands; she was dressed for a journey. The Strange Cases of Dr. Stanchon She drove to a little square too dingily middle class to require a policeman. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards The dingily gaudy saloon fronts, like drabs in blowsy finery, struck a too sophisticated, sinister note—which, after all, only sums up completely the change which had taken place. Then I'll Come Back to You A single lamp lit the room dingily, revealing the Mexicans bunched on the farther side, a number of them lying down. The Strange Case of Cavendish The window showed a faint oblong of gray now, beyond where the Major breathed, and certain objects were dingily and coldly visible. None Other Gods A dingily white-suited officer stands by with greasy invoice sheets, while another at the yawning abyss whence the cargo emerges makes the tropical day hideous with horrible imprecations. Jaffery Compared with the eggs of the other Pericrocoti, they are very dingily coloured. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 The front shop was very small, dingily clean and scornfully unmercantile. Strong Hearts Yonder dingily white remnant of a huge snow-bank,—which will yet cumber the sidewalk till the latter days of March,—over or through that wintry waste must I stride onward. Beneath an Umbrella (From "Twice Told Tales") I don't know that she looked less charming now in her school-dress, a kind of careless peignoir of a dark-blue material, dimly and dingily plaided with black. Villette The floors, the doors, the cornices and mouldings are cheap in material, dingily garish in colour. America To-day, Observations and Reflections The morning had been fine for November; but before midday the clouds had gathered, the rain had begun, and the inveterate fog of the season had closed dingily over the wet streets, far and near. Hide and Seek It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors. Familiar Spanish Travels Then followed a week of lesser department stores as she worked her way down-town, of offices tucked dingily behind lithograph and small-ware shops, and even an ostrich-feather loft, with a "Curlers Wanted" sign hung out. Gaslight Sonatas Through Broadway the dingily glittering tide spreads itself over the sands of 'amusement.' Letters from America The 17th, my name-day and the day of my election to the Academy, passed dingily and gloomily, as I was unwell. Letters of Anton Chekhov Slowly mounting the remaining steps, she followed him as if fascinated towards the door that showed dingily conspicuous in the light of an unshaded gas-jet. The Masquerader For the most part, they were dingily fair, with snub noses, coarse mouths, and eyes of an indeterminate blue. The Fortunate Youth What were just features, what just dingily represented one, as it were, is forgotten, or rather gets remembered. The Return There is a midland city in the heart of fair, open country, a dirty and wonderful city nesting dingily in the fog of its own smoke. The Turmoil, a novel For a moment he stood in the vacant hall; then he peeped first into the blind-drawn dining-room, faintly, dingily sweet, like an empty wine-bottle. The Return |
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