| 单词 | frowsy |
| 例句 | There was silence now, as the Englishmen looked in astonishment at the frowsy creatures they had so lustily waltzed inside. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z In a sense, De Kooning expanded Cézanne’s “petit sensation” from small and relatively dry to big, frowsy and very 20th century. Art in Review: WILLEM DE KOONING: ?The Figure: Movement and Gesture? 2011-06-16T22:00:28Z She mentions 1989’s Steel Magnolias, in which she played a frowsy southern misfit behind thick, horn-rimmed specs. Daryl Hannah: ‘It’s scary being in solitary’ 2015-06-21T04:00:00Z Simultaneously imperious and generous, fashion-obsessed and frowsy, solitary and sociable, she styles herself as an entrepreneur looking to establish a “members-only club” on the model of Soho House. True Life: I Got Conned by Anna Delvey 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z The “Siren Brooding on Her Eggs,” for instance, sits on her “frowsy nest / of neckties” singing a lullaby to “hungry egglets” who will soon hatch into something “ravenous with song.” Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z The lush mane was ratted and backcombed into a frowsy beehive, the kind in which hoodlums of legend used to conceal their razor blades. A Bad Girl With a Touch of Genius 2011-07-27T21:06:38Z Here, in an atmosphere of cat-haunted upholstery and broken springs, of overcooked vegetables and dingy fires, yet withal of a kind of frowsy comfort, Sylvia sometimes met the other lodgers. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z They are frowsy and wanting in the crisp cleanliness that a liberal supply of soap and water impart to them. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z Men seated, pipe in mouth, on low walls, watched the two go by--not without some rude banter; frowsy women crouching on door-steps and nursing starveling babes raised sullen faces. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Two or three houseless wretches looked on from their frowsy lairs under the stalls, but no one dreamed of interfering with the men in possession. The Man in Black 2012-03-30T02:00:14.473Z Even in the deep hearth-place, where was such comfort as the place could boast, a couple of logs served for stools and a frowsy blanket gave a squalid look to the settle. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Sitting up in his frowsy bunk, with the blankets huddled about him, looking ludicrously like an incensed gorilla, he raged and swore at his gratuitous visitor until his voice gave out. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z He had a frowsy look about him as though he had been sleeping all night in his clothes and had not washed for many a long day. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z They followed him up a ladder and into a loft, where were a frowsy bed or two, some old pack-saddles, and two or three stools made out of casks sawn in two. Ovington's Bank 2012-02-28T03:00:25.267Z After that Alison felt very desolate as she stood alone amid the swarm of frowsy aliens who poured out from the train. A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z He looked, as he stood blinking in the daylight, more frowsy and unkempt and to be avoided than usual. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z Hetty was usually sympathetic, but the sight of the frowsy passengers and unwashed children wandering aimlessly round the station aroused in her a curious impatience that was tinged with disgust that hot afternoon. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z Her fading, red-brown hair was all frowsy from the bed. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Just as we were leaving, however, a frowsy, dirty, but apparently good-tempered fisherman came rowing up and claimed the cabin as his home. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z Hard by the Shadwell Basin he came to a halt before a frowsy coffee-house, reflectively removed his pipe from his mouth, and whistled a bar of a once popular air in a peculiar manner. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z "Has he any sense?" he asked, looking with disgust at the frowsy old creature, who mopping and mowing at him was holding out a crooked claw. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z So he failed to associate the low, two-story building with the significant words of the scared woman, frowsy and unkempt, who clattered down the stairs and across the walk, halting and startling him. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z For the first thing they knew a frowsy head had been thrust out of the hay, and a pair of eyes were blinking up at them. Endurance Test or, How Clear Grit Won the Day 2011-12-16T03:00:11.660Z We were at once shown into a frowsy apartment which served as parlor, sitting-room and parental dormitory. Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers 2012-01-13T03:00:14.813Z "Come in," said the frowsy light o' love. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z They were frowsy, and, undeniably, they were not clean. The Adventures of John Jewitt Only Survivor of the Crew of the Ship Boston During a Captivity of Nearly Three Years Among the Indians of Nootka Sound in Vancouver Island 2011-11-15T03:00:19.650Z A second-story window opened above their heads and a frowsy person, disturbed by the woman’s harsh voice, looked down into the street. The Gray Phantom's Return 2011-09-22T02:00:27.150Z Anywhere else must be less dusty and frowsy and empty than here. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z When the wild owl crouched and frowsy In the rotten tree Wails dolorous, cold, and drowsy, His shuddering melody. The Triumph of Music And Other Lyrics 2011-09-11T02:00:09.677Z Of course after such a successful display of angling, everybody else had to try his hand with the picture hook and two more wigs were captured but proved so frowsy that they were burnt immediately. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z He was sleeping, sprawled in a canvas chair beside the table frowsy now, and littered with empty tins, spilt wine, and overturned flowers. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z However, before he could make his presence known, a frowsy man in corduroy emerged from the great front door and came toward him. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z He sat up and stretched, and rubbed his hands back and forth through his frowsy hair. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z There was a saucy challenge in this; it left no escape by way of bored credulity; no man of proper feeling could accept the boast of this ingratiating, frowsy, yellow-eyed Syrian peddler. Every Man for Himself 2011-08-09T02:00:26.920Z To sit in a frowsy office adding up figures when the sky's blue and the weather's heavenly, that's wasting time. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z There were some frowsy buildings within sight—evidently dwellings of a kind—but the parson lifted his eyes to the hills feeling with the psalmist that “whence cometh my strength.” The Heart of Canyon Pass 2011-08-04T02:00:24.083Z "Howdy, boss," was the salutation of the frowsy custodian; "I wasn't feeling just right to-day and was takin' a little nap." The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z For himself, he was more than content with the doubtful flock bed, with its frowsy patchwork quilt. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z What with the hot smell of greasy coats and frowsy gowns, combined with the preacher’s stupidity, the visitor soon had enough of it, and he “flung out of the little chapel” in disgust. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Aletta, who had grown stout and frowsy, had prepared herself to meet her errant niece with bitter reproaches, but one glance at Elsie’s stately presence and superior attire, proved sufficient to demoralise the aunt. A Vendetta of the Desert 2011-07-05T02:00:32.510Z A blue reek of smoke rose from in front of a misshapen black tent, consisting of little more than a hide stretched upon four poles, beneath whose shelter squatted a couple of frowsy, copper-faced women. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z They were seen from the deck of the frowsy schooner! The Corner House Girls on Palm Island 2011-06-01T02:00:23.043Z She is never frowsy nor untidy nor lazy. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z The Pontiff eyes the frowsy parchment with disgust, and when the old man kneels to kiss his foot, he spurns him. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z One filthy girl raised her head and looked up at them from her frowsy blankets. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z He reconstructed her as having had red hair and having been a bit frowsy. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z The family is not a rich one and it further abounds in an extraordinary quantity of rather frowsy, loose-tongued aunts—I never knew a family quite so rich in old aunts. The Sea Lady 2011-04-22T02:00:07.843Z The best christians sometimes have red noses, just as the jolliest literary folks have frowsy hair and abandoned hats. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z To think that a frowsy, oily haired Jewess should be the cause of my undoing. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z A few minutes later the machine had drawn up before a frowsy little apartment building, very different from and far less prepossessing than the neat, newly painted little house of Madame Blakey’s. Peggy Parsons at Prep School 2011-04-01T02:00:43.170Z His coat of bottle-green cloth—amply skirted—and red plush waistcoat, showed creased and frowsy, as if he had passed the previous night, and many preceding it, in a shed or under a tree. No Quarter! 2011-03-26T02:00:16.330Z “Your visit is a charity, gentlemen,” she said gayly, as she gave them chairs; “this weather serves one’s spirits and one’s ruffles alike, in that it leaves them both limp and frowsy.” Joscelyn Cheshire A Story of Revolutionary Days in the Carolinas 2011-03-10T03:00:48.177Z If they are tip-tilted and frowsy it may go a little bit hard with us. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z But take we the region as it was, with its frowsy abodes and their tenants. Mad A Story of Dust and Ashes 2011-02-25T03:01:05.303Z It was uncarpeted, and its furniture consisted of a broken chair, a box on which stood an enamelled basin, and a bed which was covered with frowsy blankets. The Childerbridge Mystery 2011-02-16T03:00:38.127Z Though the hair of the head was tossed and frowsy, and the shirt that covered the shoulders looked as if it had passed through the “beggar’s mangle,” I had no difficulty in recognising the wearer. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z Windows began to open and frowsy heads and yawning faces to stick out from all over the University Place side of the big building. The Adventures of a Freshman 2011-01-18T03:00:12.083Z Now she looked very plain and frowsy in a messy housedress, and her hair hung in untidy streamers. Whispering Walls 2011-01-17T03:00:48.373Z Wade was not in a frame of mind to see any picturesqueness in that frowsy crowd. King Spruce, A Novel 2011-01-15T03:00:34.400Z Soiled clothing, blackened eyes, and broken noses, frowsy, uncombed hair, and matted and disordered beard, with reddened eyes that looked as if sleep had long been a stranger to them—these were the principal features. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Look out here at this bare court, dull, dingy, filthy, frowsy, misery stricken. Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches 2010-12-20T17:11:48.837Z Louise rang the door bell and in a moment, a lean woman with frowsy hair scorched from a curling iron, came to the door. The Vanishing Houseboat 2010-12-20T17:11:37.787Z We got outside at last and were nailed by a frowsy man who wanted to sell one grimy postal card of the Chapel of Bones. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise But Bucks hung around the office until she staggered up under the streaked moonlight, as frowsy a looking train as ever choked on alkali. The Nerve of Foley And Other Railroad Stories A stout woman sat behind the bar, and nodded over her knitting, from which she occasionally drew a needle and scratched her frowsy head, yawning the while and rubbing her small, watery eyes. At the Ghost Hour The House of the Unbelieving Thomas It was a tired, a frowsy pink like a fondant that has lain a long while in a confectioner's window. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Because they learn their knowledge of life from, a frowsy volume of Moral Theology that in the most utterly barbarous Latin emits an abstract of humanity's immeasurable vice. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Each had its crowd of revelers; its boisterous throng of frowsy, velvet-jacketed, long-haired students; its laughing models; its inevitable brooding and despondent absintheurs sitting apart in isolated melancholy. The Key to Yesterday "I was just thinking of one thing, Mr. Chairman and gentlemen"—Mrs. Suggs bowed her frowsy head formally. The Cottage of Delight A Novel Clutching at the suggestion he went toward that inn, which was but in the next street—a place that turned out to be a frowsy, dirty house, frequented by the humblest travellers only. In the Day of Adversity The invaluable one retired, with a last disapproving glance at the frowsy David, and Anthony's forehead wrinkled. In And Out She certainly was not a frowsy intellectual, and the fact that Margaret had brought her down for inspection was a guarantee that she wasn't a stupid little thing. Years of Plenty But they were frowsy, too, with reticules of scarred brownish leather, and mangy fur trimmings, worn fringes, and beaded mantles, whence time and poverty had clawed handfuls of the bright beads. Man and Maid She saw him shake his frowsy head and a tremor went through him. The Cottage of Delight A Novel He had paced his horse about a hundred yards from the door, not sorry to see the last of the frowsy, dirty place, when he heard his name called. Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion "Take back this frowsy show to where it was," The sergeant of the gateway-sentry cried; "You know quite well you cannot pass outside." King Cole Kindness was readier in the frowsy offices of the ship’s chandlers; whence the delectably dressed youth the firm’s son soon led the way to a table and vermouth in the Avenida de Mayo. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday That is why the presentment of the latter may be seen up to this day on the frieze of a building in the frowsiest part of Paris. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections The few specimens that had met her gaze about town, the station and the fords were, she felt sure, and justly sure, but frowsy representatives of a magnificent race. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade Just as I've pictured them often, with butternut jean trousers, a ragged woolen shirt open at the neck, and an old hat on his frowsy head. The Boy Scouts in the Blue Ridge Marooned Among the Moonshiners The Russian moujik in winter has his frowsy sheepskin coat, and the Russian prince imitates it in costly furs. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" And as luck would have it, our heroine was caught at her worst that same afternoon; and conscious of frowsy locks tumbling about her ears, her vanity was mortified. Leonore Stubbs And such a head!—You'd thought that there The languid night, in frowsy bliss, Had curled brown rays for her deep hair And stained them with the starlight's kiss. Blooms of the Berry The agent refused the Indians' demands; was threatened; "got scared," said the frowsy, guttural harbinger of ill, and swore he'd arrest the speakers in the morning, and they arrested him right there. A Soldier's Trial An Episode of the Canteen Crusade The frowsy sheets and coverlids on the three beds were of linen and silk. The Red Symbol Their dress is no longer that frowsy parody of richer women’s frippery which shocked observant foreigners a generation ago. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Over head were dull small-paned windows, some shutters with a few of their slats broken out, a frowsy headed man looking out evidently to see whether the day was cold. The "Genius" For he may come to me at any moment, and I do not wish him 329 to find me a frowsy creature, but a wife worthy of him. Francezka "Here, pardner, I'll take a cupful o' that 'ere, too," said a frazzled and frowsy teamster, shambling up through the half-light of the dawn. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign More than once he made his appearance with his usually frowsy hair as sleek as the coat of a water rat, and dripping, in further likeness to the animal mentioned. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted He patted his wrists together and glanced triumphantly upon the frowsy, barefooted waitress while Mrs. March poured the coffee. John March, Southerner I want her," said Raven, "more than anything else I'm likely to get in this frowsy world. Old Crow Evan found himself curiously studying the odd bumps that the curling pins made under her frowsy boudoir cap. The Deaves Affair His dress was wet and begrimed with mud; his hair was frowsy, lying in ropy tangles upon his head and hanging over his brows; and his face was haggard with anxiety and suffering. Our campaign around Gettysburg Being a memorial of what was endured, suffered and accomplished by the Twenty-third regiment (N. Y. S. N. G.) and other regiments associated with them, in their Pennsylvania and Maryland campaign, during the second rebel invasion of the loyal states in June-July, 1863 He was of great stature, seemingly blonde as a Viking, his hair clustering round his head in frowsy curls, and two enormous whiskers, like the tusks of some strange animal, jutting from his cheeks. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) First they took turns sweeping, as best they could, with a very ancient and frowsy broom, the thick, moth-eaten carpet. The Boarded-Up House Red-faced as old carousal, and with eyes A hard, hot blue; her hair a frowsy flame, Bold, dowdy-bosomed, from her widow-frame She leans, her mouth all insult and all lies. Weeds by the Wall Verses I knew her just as soon as I set eyes on her, for she wore that same old frowsy red dress, and had a little tad of a shawl pinned over her shoulders. Fred Fenton Marathon Runner The Great Race at Riverport School The room was large in floor space, but the bark-covered rafters, frowsy with cobwebs, were scarcely more than two feet above the head of a six-foot man. The Law-Breakers On the starboard was a stateroom for the captain; on the port a pair of frowsy berths, one over the other, and abutting astern upon the side of an unsavoury cupboard. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) His head was bare in spots, his neck frowsy, and his eyelids scaly. Dwellers in the Hills Nobody seems to be doing anything, except a few old beggar woman squalid and frowsy as the mendicant hordes of Tuam, Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule Most of them were heavily bearded, with long, frowsy, unkempt hair, dangling about the shoulders. A Waif of the Mountains A bugler, however, riding into the middle of the settlement, sounded a trumpet call, and at the unwonted notes frowsy, ill-shaped heads appeared 86 at various shanty doors and tent-flaps to see what was doing. The Mountain Divide His immaculate presence made them all feel frowsy and unwashed and ill-clad. Rim o' the World Indeed, that room could still remember when a frowsy, blowsy hired girl was wont to stick her head in and groan, "Supper's ready!" In a Little Town He beheld walls bare of all decoration, simply a rough plastering of mud over the lateral logs; a frowsy cupboard, made out of a huge packing-case, containing odd articles for housekeeping purposes. The Night Riders A Romance of Early Montana The hall was narrow, and on either side were two dirty rooms, in which were some frowsy women. Among the Brigands And what a sea of information is therein under that frowsy dome. The Book of Khalid His sandy hair was tangled and frowsy, his eyes shot with tiny threads of red, his cheeks bronzed and covered with a shaggy light beard. The Web of the Golden Spider Behind him were two of the boys with pikes—frowsy, savage, repellent figures, with drugget coats tied by the sleeves about their necks. The Wild Geese Each of us has two or more blankets, which, I regret to say, are a trifle frowsy as a rule. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand He had not even raised his head, but was looking up from under frowsy brows with eyes that were grave and startled. Sunlight Patch A frowsy woman with long earrings opened it staring, and said that the Silvermanns occupied two rooms on her second floor. Ghetto Comedies The faintly beaten track of the road stretched out in front of them in an almost straight line across the gray sand between interminable clumps of cactus and frowsy, wilted sagebrush. With Hoops of Steel The brilliance shone full on the frowsy gray whiskers, and, above them, the blinking, rheumy eyes, so intent on the proper browning of the game. Heart of the Blue Ridge She laid her frowsy old head on her arms, like one who is utterly crushed and dumb. The Ranch at the Wolverine Of these the janitors merely popped out their heads—frowsy heads, most of them—and gave the number of rooms and the price in a breath of defiance and mixed ale. The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home He found us the right men to clean our well, to do our painting, to trim and rehabilitate our frowsy door-yard. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm Clarissa was too proud to do or say anything to let the frowsy maid guess that she wondered at this or cared aught for the ungrateful captain. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton She sailed majestically out of the room with her head held high, and her frowsy grey hair bristling with indignation. Master of the Vineyard The hair of muzzle, head and paws was matted and plastered with some thick liquid, giving him a curious frowsy appearance. The Boy Chums in the Forest or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades Miss Clara Stegg seated herself on the frowsy sofa—indispensable to a Pimlico furnished flat—and, with her elbow on one palm and her chin on another, reviewed the situation. Bones in London Though it was summer these red heritors of the land could not do without 16 their fire at night-time, any more than they could do without their skins and frowsy blankets. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies He leveled this query at the frowsy, whiskered man, who had awakened and was blinking contentedly. Desert Dust She indicated Grandmother by an inclination of her frowsy head. Master of the Vineyard Swarms of people of the lowest class, unkempt, ragged, and frowsy, but all armed in some fashion, were prowling around intent on mischief, and cheering for De Retz. My Sword's My Fortune A Story of Old France Must the masses be frowsy to be free? The Voyage Alone in the Yawl "Rob Roy" From Suzor’s demeanour I felt that he did not suspect me of having been witness of his entry into that frowsy house near Euston Station. The Stretton Street Affair Then the tramp of feet commenced again, and once more a frowsy host of outcasts from the overcrowded lands poured into the depot. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter The bats—especially the large frugivorous bats—have a very unpleasant, frowsy smell. More Science From an Easy Chair Claire returned the look, stared at Bill's frowsy hair, his red wrists, his wrinkled, grease-stained coat, his expression of impertinent stupidity. Free Air He struggled to a sitting posture with a gasp, felt frenziedly for his "adjustables" and looked round upon the mixture of dirty, frowsy figures. Norman Ten Hundred A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Then he conducted me to his consulting-room, a gloomy, frowsy little apartment much over-heated, as is usual in Florentine houses in winter. The Stretton Street Affair From the same small-paned windows where frowsy Italian women stared down upon Ruth, Ruth's ancestors had leaned out to greet General George Washington. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Madge was completely fascinated at the spectacle of a fat, frowsy woman holding a baby by its skirt on the sill of a six-story tenement house. Madge Morton's Victory She had let fall a bunch of flowers from her frowsy dress upon the pulpit desk and had left them there. A Sheaf of Corn Then his pride left him, and he let his whiskers grow frowsy and used his vest for a spittoon, and his eyes watered too easily for a man still in his forties. In Our Town Many times—his nose was on a level with Tommy's frowsy head—he looked sternly, even menacingly, into those irresponsibly bright blue eyes, but with no effect whatever. Frank of Freedom Hill They are, generally a slouchy, frowsy, lazy, unclean people, of whom nothing is truer than that distance lends enchantment to their view. Camp-fire and Wigwam The frowsy chambermaid of the "Red Lion" had just finished washing the front door steps. The House with the Green Shutters She raised a frowsy head from its pillow, put a dirty hand to her eyes to shade them from the sun entering the darkened room by the open door, smiled fatuously upon her husband. A Sheaf of Corn She was soon attired in a neat white frock; and an old yellow sash of doubtful cleanliness and a bunch of frowsy red poppies were folded in a piece of tissue paper. Girls of the Forest His frowsy head had been bowed as if he were studying his own little shadow at his feet. Frank of Freedom Hill In truly Oriental fashion they completed the ceremonial of obeisance and fealty by throwing dust upon their already frowsy enough heads. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan I am overwhelmed," I said, "and can offer no excuse for this frowsy dress. The Reckoning As the Applebys passed along the hopeless streets, past shops lighted with single gas-jets, or through halls where suspicious women in frowsy wrappers peered at them, they were silent. The Innocents A Story for Lovers Mary Ellen was alone, her work done, her nose buried in a novel of such fine print that it necessitated the lamp's being perilously near the fringe of frowsy hair that covered her forehead. Explorers of the Dawn A young human three feet high, bare and frowsy of head, stood alone in the woods. Frank of Freedom Hill But this," surveying the deck with a suspicious glance, "is as frowsy and fusty a piece of ship-timber as ever stowed coals and cods' tails between her hatches. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 It was therefore an unfortunate moment for a large and frowsy—he would almost have said snuffy—figure to lurch forward and clasp him in an expansive embrace. The Path to Honour Every sash of every window was thrown open, showing the housewives' frowsy heads peeping out. The Gods are Athirst The frowsy Miss Pinnegar could crumple her up and throw her down the utilitarian drain, and have done with her. The Lost Girl Therefore it hung its frowsy locks from the boll. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills The handsome lad had been transformed into a bent, misshapen old man, and anything more ugly, frowsy, and generally unattractive than he now appeared it would be impossible to imagine. About Peggy Saville Dr Pendle did so, but it was not a pretty object he contemplated, for the man was untidy, unwashed and frowsy in looks. The Bishop's Secret A countryman, a clumsy, frowsy fellow, in a terrible fright, stopped under Germain's window out of breath and turned at bay on his pursuer. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette She found they were very much of a type: a little frowsy, a little flea-bitten as a rule, indifferent to ordinary morality, and philosophical even if irritable. The Lost Girl "Just as though I would hurry back to frowsy old England the first time I've ever managed to get away from it on my own!" Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa If we are upon the verge of a new era, in which Exclusionism must be overthrown, it will avail thee not to call us base-born and frowsy peasants. The Book of the Damned I forget now precisely how it came about, but I went to live at a frowsy caravanserai in Bouverie Street, an astonishingly dirty and disreputable hotel called the 'Sussex.' The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography And I'm homely and frowsy, and dowdy and horrid and a perfect mess. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Whilst Miss Pinnegar and her father sat frowsily on for ever, eating their toast and cutting off the crust, and sipping their third cup of tea. The Lost Girl One after another women poked frowsy heads from the hut windows at the barking of their dogs. Tess of the Storm Country Whether he jumps or leaps, or whether only the frowsy and base-born are so athletic, his is the impression, by assimilation, that this especial object is a ball of sandstone. The Book of the Damned I rubbed shoulders with eager necessity, scrambled for free lunches in frowsy bar-rooms, and amid the scum and débris of the waterside found much food for sober thought. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance The housewife with her frowsy duties, being kissed perfunctorily on the mat, the man who wears a stilted mask to the world, and before her—lets go.... The Wind Bloweth Meanwhile the shops began to take on a hopeless and frowsy look. The Lost Girl There was no attempt at smartness in their attire; they were dowdy and frowsy, and even the young faces were old. The Californians Our acceptance is that the passing away of exclusionism is a phenomenon of the twentieth century: that gods of the twentieth century will sustain our notions be they ever so unwashed and frowsy. The Book of the Damned He was a long, thin, spider-shaped article that seemed to have run to seed—all stalk with a frowsy top, for his hair was long an’ dry an’ fly-about. Twice Bought This too was the æra of black silk breeches; an extraordinary novelty against which "some frowsy people attempted to raise up worsted in emulation." Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 "To that frowsy old Museum," said Priscilla, "full of skeletons of whales and stuffed antelopes and things." Priscilla's Spies Let a woman, for instance, don an old soiled or worn wrapper, and it will have the effect of making her indifferent as to whether her hair is frowsy or in curl papers. Pushing to the Front It reeked with stale tobacco-smoke, the smell of cookery, and the odors of frowsy clothes. The Gold Trail She didn't have her apron on quite straight and her hair was a little frowsy. A Little Girl in Old Salem He now works all day in his Net-loft: and I wonder how he keeps as well as he is, shut up there from fresh air and among frowsy Nets. Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants" Some frowsy, ill-clad women had come out of their houses, and, with children clinging to their skirts, looked on with idle curiosity. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught Twiddel rang the bell, and the frowsy little maid entered, carrying a letter on a tray. The Lunatic at Large He dressed and got down quietly into the shadowed city and waked a frowsy gondolier asleep in his gondola. The Lovely Lady It was a small room, tucked close under the roof, and held but the tumbled frowsy bed, an uneasy table and a chair. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories He was a rather short, fat man, with a clean-shaven face, and a large shock of bushy, light hair, which he kept hanging over his forehead like a frowsy bang threatening to obstruct his vision. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis He had a most amiable feeling towards it, were it ever so frowsy and undersized and sallow. Mary Gray Swallows and frowsy little sparrows flit from their nests, built in the very hands of the golden goddess of Liberty. The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs "All right; we'll stop it," said the ticket-taker, who still held to the frowsy young person on the back of the lion. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove Membertou is baptized Henry, after the King, and all his frowsy squaws renamed after ladies of the most dissolute court in Christendom. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom Her hair was knotted untidily under a frowsy old bonnet, and a very thin shawl was bound across her ample breast. Sue, A Little Heroine A suspicious house; no frowsy doctor shows such favour to his dame. Bakemono Yashiki (The Haunted House), Retold from the Japanese Originals Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 2 During the whole performance there was a continual interchange of social greetings between corpulent ship-chandlers, their heads violently greased for the occasion, and certain frowsy women sprinkled scantily through the house. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 The goat slid along until he came up beside a lion, on whose back a frowsy young person was riding. Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove Red lamps were burning inside the wineshop, where men reclined on frowsy couches. The Door Through Space "Come in," said he, thrusting a frowsy head out from under his blankets. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West No shot could now be thrown away at frowsy turban or flaunting rag along the cliffs. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier A frowsy individual sauntered out, glanced over the river and without displaying the least interest, was proceeding to arrange some crocks and pans about the cabin door. The Story of Paul Boyton Voyages on All the Great Rivers of the World A little paint and a little powder and a frowsy topknot seems to sorta touched some new funny bone in you, eh? The She Boss A Western Story I dumped Miellyn on a couch and sent the frowsy waiter for two bowls of noodles and coffee, handed him a few extra coins, and told him to leave us alone. The Door Through Space He kicked it open and went into the frowsy room. The Admirable Tinker Child of the World One after another the six had shaken their frowsy heads. An Apache Princess A Tale of the Indian Frontier A leading character is a frowsy wife who faces all manner of humiliation, in order to enjoy, behind her elderly husband's back, the embraces of a good-looking youth. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Part mews, part warehouses, and all disreputable, the upper story of it, as it showed itself to me over the wall, held some of the frowsiest of London's horde. Lore of Proserpine One table was surrounded by a boisterous group in the centre of which was a fat man in a frowsy wig. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Letty Devine led a gay, careless life; her husband had plenty of money, and she was introduced to pleasures that made the frowsy life of home seem very repulsive. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep; That straw where many a rogue has lain of yore, And vermin’d gipsies litter’d heretofore. The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham I shall sink into a dowdy, frowsy, shabby-genteel old maid for the rest of my life! The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Not a sign upon her but told of her frowsy round. Lore of Proserpine His wig was frowsy, his three-cornered hat was out of shape and he held a big stick with which he every now and then thumped the floor to emphasise his words. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' Most of them are so red and frowsy, you know. Sunny Slopes The old man gazed full at the frowsy apparition in the doorway. The Freebooters of the Wilderness There was a shuffle, a scampering, and much suppressed giggling, then a frowsy head peered in at the doorway. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland He passed several frowsy acquaintances of other days, and on two he bestowed small alms. The Missing Link What struck him in addition to the characteristics already named, were their frowsy eyebrows and glittering coal-black eyes. The Land of Mystery Lydia, her red cheeks redder than usual, smiled at Lizzie, as she dropped the pennies into the pocket of her blouse and stuffed a gray and frowsy little handkerchief on top of them. Lydia of the Pines A frowsy woman, with a happy smile upon her face, hurried past with a new doll in her arms. Dan Merrithew A stove, at which a frowsy neighbor was cooking some fat slices of pork, for the sick woman, filled the apartment with stifling heat and greasy odors. Clemence The Schoolmistress of Waveland The frowsy carpets and heavy solid chairs of England's cold and foggy climate reign supreme beneath the Austral sun. Town Life in Australia There were Sally and Fred, And Martha and Luke and Leander; There was Jack, a small boy with a frowsy red head, And the look of an old salamander. Holiday Stories for Young People I really hardly know what it's like, as I arrive there about twelve o'clock every night and fall into bed, and then up again at 7.30 next morning as a rule, and frowsy at that. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front A little bewildered, she divested her head and shoulders of a frowsy straw thatch and stood erect, shaking it off from her single short garment. The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt The frowsy housemaid who brought up my meals was anything but inspiring. Fanny Goes to War Then her home is the bare dismal kitchen, with the inevitable deal table, frowsy cloth, and rickety chairs. Side Lights Then she must have been frowsy and provincial, after all; and I thought her so smart and distinguished-looking and everything.' Grey Roses The beds are under great frowsy canopies and all the curtains are looped up with heavy tassels. Letters to Helen Impressions of an Artist on the Western Front He pictured the mean and frowsy room, and shuddered. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes He took up his tray and went down the car, offering his wares to the bored, frowsy passengers who wanted only to reach journey's end. The Lookout Man He was all mud-stained, dishevelled, and frowsy: for two seconds, though he didn't notice me, I had a good view of him. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces. Officers' wives, in garrison-towns like Bayonne, had, in his experience, always been, as he expressed it, frowsy and provincial. Grey Roses Literary appreciations, that were to have sent the ball of fame spinning up the hill of criticism, grew frowsy and dog's-eared with many postages to and fro. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 24, 1892 We took our places amongst a handful of frowsy folks who cracked nuts and blasphemed. The Notorious Mrs. Ebbsmith The woman was sunburned and frowsy, and her khaki outing suit was tight where it should be loose, and hung in unsightly wrinkles where it should fit snugly. The Lookout Man These creatures, ill clad, with matted, frowsy hair and hands that look as though they had never, never been washed, smell like the byre. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls The door opened, and a frowsy head appeared. The Stowmarket Mystery Or, A Legacy of Hate But as we draw up the hill and see the black surroundings and enter the frowsy, dismal street, the desire to extol vanishes and even the possibility of extenuating becomes doubtful. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees His feet were of large size, encased in shabby moccasins, while frowsy leggins dangled between the knee and ankle. The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne He, too, examined his gun before he followed Dave through the dormer window and passed into the frowsy bedchamber. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West Now he'd have to sleep in some hot, frowsy little room for about four bits, instead of luxuriating in a suite as he would like to do. The Thunder Bird An odd, uncleaned boot lay, like a frowsy, drunken visitor, on the floor. Septimus On the first landing a young man in a frowsy sleeping suit stood waiting for him. The Divine Fire My own regard, as I loitered there, Fastened on one proletariat pair, With finery frowsy, and oily hair; Oh, what a surprise! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891 A frowsy head suddenly appeared at the dining-room door, and a voice which accompanied it remarked: "Didn't they bring in any stove, ma'am?" Romance of California Life You've a perfectly new girl to deal with," she said, looking him in the eyes;—"a miracle of meekness and patience that is rather certain to turn into a dreadful, frowsy old hausfrau some day. The Common Law The stone-flagged hearth extended half across the room, and sprawling upon it in frowsy disorder was a bevy of children of all ages, as fat as pigs and as happy-go-lucky. The Frontiersmen You look up a frowsy little courtyard, the walls of which are more graceful than plumb, and you see a horse's head sticking out into the etching. Walking-Stick Papers The Marchioness went by as we stood there, a bit of tattered shawl over her frowsy head, one stocking down around her shoetop. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great With frowsy hair, skirts askew, and red hands, she talked loud while washing the floor with great swishes of water. Library of the World's Best Mystery and Detective Stories It was a drab picture—the bleak, leaden sky above, the sloppy, miry stones below, the frowsy mothers and fathers, the motley children. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Did she live in a frowsy lodging-house near the great works? The Pretty Lady All the señoras were smoky looking with snakish eyes, and the dresses under their heavy-fringed black mantillas were more frowsy than those of their daughters. Starr, of the Desert It was Bridget; and her red hair was dishevelled, her face flushed to the parboiled tint, and her dress uncommonly damp and frowsy. Round the Block Whereat the women ran and brought a number of frowsy and bleared men, all unwounded, save one that had a broken head. Red Axe Investigation showed that our only resource in the commissary line were some wads of sticky, unsalted, boiled rice which our Igorot carriers had inside their hats, in contact with their frowsy hair. The Philippines: Past and Present (Volume 1 of 2) But hardly had my eyes lighted on the frowsy fixtures and appurtenances of the trade when there flashed into my mind a really luminous idea. The Uttermost Farthing A Savant's Vendetta Its leather lungs, that once shouted the charge, were now still and frowsy, with no martial speech left in them. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's It was an intense relief after looking on so many frowsy heads, bobbed and marcelled, during his six months' visit in the States. The Alaskan At his heels a crowd of loafers, frowsy women and dogs. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 She was rather a frowsy girl, not too young, and with a certain look about the jaw. Cheerful—By Request You have a ripping moonlight walk instead of a so-called night's rest in a frowsy hut. No Hero The miserable waste ground, where the refuse-matter had been heaped of yore, was swallowed up and gone; and in its frowsy stead were tiers of warehouses, crammed with rich goods and costly merchandise. Dombey and Son They can't expect a man to start for the south of England when he's just off a frowsy journey.' Mr. Standfast It revealed nothing but the common squalor of a low saloon—white faces, sleepy eyes, and frowsy heads. Greenmantle He swung his heels up on the seat, and burrowed a frowsy head into the cushions. The Thirty-Nine Steps A submissive orchestra dictated to by a spectacled man with frowsy hair and a dress suit, industriously followed the bobs of his head and the waves of his baton. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets A frowsy, rat-faced woman and a gawky youth of fourteen stuck their heads out the doorway at either side of the man. The Oakdale Affair Maggie scowled down upon the frowsy street filled with frowsy women and frowsy children. The Mucker He jerked the frowsy wig from her head, and beneath was a cloud of disordered hair that shimmered in the sunlight. The Insidious Dr. Fu Manchu The frowsy shadows of a stubble beard lay on his jaw and throat. The Damnation of Theron Ware Thereafter a hushed and lengthy conversation took place in the frowsy bedroom. Till the Clock Stops There was a small boy asleep on the couch this time, and the usual frowsily tired traveling public relaxed against various of the chairs. Star-Dust She scowled upon the street cars rumbling by with their frowsy loads. The Mucker Early morning saw him, an inconspicuous, frowsy figure, slouching up to a way station on the line to Sacramento. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California And aren't you yet satisfied with them that you must, of a day, go slyly prowling and gallavanting about, dragging indiscriminately into your rooms frowsy and filthy people? Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Not often did such gowns sweep the dust brought in by plebeian feet, nor such Venetian point collars rub shoulders with the frowsy Norwich drugget worn by hireling perjurers or starveling clerks. London Pride Or When the World Was Younger Her hair had been brushed twice that morning by Aunt Izzie, but Katy had run her fingers impatiently through it, till it stood out above her head like a frowsy bush. What Katy Did We shall sight from afar, when steaming out southwards, the three white dots which represent quarters on Leicester Cone; now they are hidden in frowsy fog-clouds. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I A frowsy woman was talking across the counter to a clerk whose bald head shone, glossy as ivory, above the gray fatigue of his face. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California An air of comfort seemed to come over the frowsy room after Edith had quietly set a chair straight here, picked up something from the floor there, and arranged the ragged shade at the window. The Pagans There was little furniture in the chamber; merely the frowsy bed, a bare table, a single broken chair besides the one in which the girl was sitting. The Puritans She had no arts, no impulses nor graces—scarce even any manners; she was queerly, almost frowsily dressed; yet she pleased me well. A Passionate Pilgrim But the same frowsy waiter who had given him his letter was on the watch for him. The History of David Grieve And there he was, with his horrible white face, with his tightened, glistening skin, with some frowsy rag over his mouth, and a hunted look as of a wild beast in his eyes. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark "Just as if the pieces of brass that were screaming a minute since should pretend to call those notes their own which are breathed through them by a frowsy trumpeter." The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day Therefore it was that the black, shaky-looking houses, leaning over the quays, were now populous with frowsy heads and cotton nightcaps. In and out of Three Normady Inns "We are on a par, about, now," he said to himself; and he reminded himself he also was now entitled to put a cockade on the frowsy hat of his coachman in the mildewed livery. Mrs. Day's Daughters The other was a middle-aged woman in frowsy garments; tall and stout, sly and sullen. The Fallen Leaves There were the aproned and frowsy students, of uncertain age, who seemed to have no life except that which existed under studio skylights. The Call of the Cumberlands It was a frowsy, disreputable crowd, evincing but mild curiosity at the arrival of a new prisoner. Keith of the Border Girls make monsters of themselves, and I'm told the men like it;—going about with unclean, frowsy structures on their heads, enough to make a dog sick. The Eustace Diamonds And the beds; those frowsy, creaky, prehistoric wooden concerns, always six or eight inches too short, whose mattresses have not been turned round since they were made. Alone Our ascent was mostly through winding and climbing streets of little dirty houses, with frowsy gardens beside them, and the very dirtiest-faced children in England playing about them. Seven English Cities Grimy business piles, sagging sheds, and frowsy wharves and docks grieve the eye, which the shipping in the stream does little to console. London Films Her tumbled, frowsy hair, with patches of golden dye in it, was surmounted by an appalling hat of incongruous dimensions and shape, trimmed with what appeared to be archaeological relics, thick in dust. A Girl Among the Anarchists They see frowsy hair and unshaven cheeks and yawns as a homely, wholesome part of life and make a pleasant indolence of them. We Can't Have Everything He rose, and saw a frowsy, dishevelled, puce-coloured figure in the dirty mirror over the fireplace. Buried Alive: a Tale of These Days Often it ran level with the roofs of vague, far-stretching acres of houses--houses vile and frowsy, and smoking like pyres in the dank air. Hilda Lessways He thus describes his publisher:— "With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-colored hair, And frowsy pores that taint the ambient air." Halleck's New English Literature There was also a table on which stood some medicine bottles, a jug of milk, and a glass; an armchair of frowsy aspect, and two cane chairs. A Girl Among the Anarchists Her last glance at her husband with his frowsy hair on his frowsy pillow infuriated her. We Can't Have Everything But so might one who had been unfaithful to a trusting wife and was now risking his neck to pour gold into the greedy lap of a frowsy mistress. The Lost Naval Papers Now he lay on the floor, his legs drawn up and the back of his frowsy head resting against a rung of the chair in which still sat the dead body of Doc Coffin. The Heart of the Range So her little pigtails were no longer smooth and glossy, but frowsy and loose, and the rest of her hair was ruffled until it looked something like the Bird Fairies' soft plumage. The Little House in the Fairy Wood It's only an old, unfashionable street, but not frowsy or dirty. A Flock of Girls and Boys Through the windows of the hotel several frowsy looking women and an open mouthed boy were staring hard at the unconscious city folk. Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville It was a forlorn-looking lot of hovels, occupied by listless, frowsy adults and noisy children. John Wesley, Jr. The Story of an Experiment And Patsy won't make a fool of herself over that frowsy puppy, I assure you. Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John "It looks really frowsy, and I can talk while I work." Aunt Jane's Nieces I was awakened from frowsy sleep by a French soldier, laden with baggage, who stumbled headlong into the railway carriage which I was sharing with three other British officers. With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement A frowsy looking woman came out, all smiles, and nodded pleasantly at the expectant group in the wagon. Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation They are nearly as level as the lakes whose places they have taken, and present a dry, even surface free from rock-heaps, mossy bogginess, and the frowsy roughness of rank, coarse-leaved, weedy, and shrubby vegetation. The Mountains of California The floors were regularly swept, the beds made, the frowsy "general" gratified by a weekly "tip" on pay-day. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore As the frowsy little waitress left them, they looked at the pallid, milky stuff, and then at each other, and their individual preoccupations thinned for a moment. The Iron Woman A new piece was to be put on the stage that night, and the entrance to the small pit was already crowded with rough men and frowsy, untidy, disreputable girls. A Girl of the People Out came Mrs. Todd, accompanied by another frowsy woman. Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation The frowsy maid pulled the covers untidily over the two little beds and half-heartedly picked up a few of the toys and dumped them in a closet. Little Miss By-The-Day She had black snappy eyes, fresh dark skin, and jet black hair, so curly that it was almost frowsy. The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me And she guessed that Maggie, vilely struggling in squalor and poverty, was somehow happy in her frowsy, careless way. The Old Wives' Tale For a little while she looked down at him—at his round rosy face and his frowsy hair from under which protruded one dirty fist. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Then as a vagrant black, when his attire would be nothing at all in camp, and little more than a frowsy blanket when visiting the town. Confessions of a Beachcomber The frowsy woman opened the door at the head of the stairs. Little Miss By-The-Day None had torn his hair before the officials asking for news of a lost female in frowsy black. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel Three other doors on the same landing were now partly open and blocked with the heads of frowsy inquisitive women. Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Since that memorable night in Monte Carlo he had been living in frowsy surroundings, concealed in thieves' hiding-places, eating coarse food, and hearing the slang of the underworld of Europe. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo He loves the odd frowsy smell of the shut-up attic, the bright ugly ornaments of the chimney-piece, the dirt of the street. At Large The little drama of the house shaped itself for me, as I walked through the frowsy, faded rooms, with a touching insistence. The Altar Fire She and Sally cut out the flowers, and applied them with buttonhole stitch, sewing until their fingers were sore, their faces flushed, and their hair in frowsy disorder. Martie, the Unconquered Presently, Annie, the laundress, put her frowsy head in at the door. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Then, to the girl's wondering astonishment, the woman unpinned and took off her fair curls, revealing a mop of tangled, frowsy, colourless hair, which the wig had concealed. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl Otherwise in these gray, frowsy streets spring, summer, autumn, winter were all the same to the grey, frowsy people. Simon the Jester The Don hesitated, glancing at her dishevelled, gaudy attire, painted cheeks, and frowsy hair. The Prospector The stewards were dirty and desponding, the serving inhospitable, the cooking dirty and greasy, the food scanty, the table-linen frowsy. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Dan's pony sent him a gleam of recognition from under his frowsy bangs, but did not stir. April Hopes These were reduced to a single carryall and a frowsy horse whose rough winter coat recalled the aspect of his species in the period following the glacial epoch. Fennel and Rue We left the tram and the main thoroughfare, and turned into frowsy streets, peopled with frowsy men and women and raucous with the bickering play of frowsy children. Simon the Jester I dragged my duffle-bag thither, and hammered at the door until the frowsy proprietor appeared, muttering oaths. Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography We should not have got enough to eat; our clothes would have been ugly to look at, dirty and frowsy. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance A frowsy, bearded brigand sprang into the road with a shout, and flourished a musket in the light of the moon! The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain A frowsy man, to match the frowsy horse, looked in impatiently. Fennel and Rue Also how, in the frowsy hotel at Angel's Camp, he heard the frog anecdote that would become the corner-stone of his fame. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 1 (1835-1866) The woman and the girl looked at each other in the tawdry, frowsy, lamp-lit room. The Grand Babylon Hotel The contrast between his flashy clothes and my frowsy, wretched-looking appearance, as I saw ourselves in the mirrors on either side of me, made me sorely ill at ease. The Rise of David Levinsky The young man lifted it, placed it over the frowsy face and moved one of the grotesquely relaxed limbs into a more comfortable position. The Four Million Nothing, of course, was frowsy, but everything was somewhat dusty, as if belonging to a man who never rebuked a servant. The Island Pharisees The guests left, the members of the Council, each with a wife on his arm, frowsy, overdressed women most of them. Long Live the King! Even if they are frowsy and low, I am sorry for them. Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret She looked haggard and more than usually frowsy. The Rise of David Levinsky But the purpose wavered as he saw the roustabouts come tumbling out, all frowsy and unwashed, rubbing the sleep out of their eyes, cross and savage. Back Home The girl at the far end stirred, cleared her throat, and settled down again; her movement disengaged a scent of frowsy clothes. The Island Pharisees As his frowsy head and unkempt beard appeared above the railing, it was evident that he was drunk. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories In a moment a little girl came and stood beside me—a little girl with a frowsy Italian head, carrying a basket. The Diary of a Man of Fifty Of the most elaborate of Mr. Wordsworth's poems he could find nothing to say, but that it was "clumsy, and frowsy, and his aversion." Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 He found “My son Benjamin” to be little and lean, and buttoned-up slovenly in a frowsy old great-coat that fell down to his ragged carpet-slippers. A House to Let Her fine blond hair was frowsy and a button was missing at the throat of her dress. The Choir Invisible My frowsy friend produced from some interior of his frayed clothing half a loaf of bread, pepper, and salt. Waifs and Strays Part 1 It contains small, cheap flats, and a number of frowsy looking houses which give one the impression of having run to seed. The Yellow Claw Their frowsy heads protruded from every window, and from within came drunken shouts, the thumping of feet, and the twanging of harps. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard He was clumsy, he was frowsy, he had a gaping mouth and a turn-up nose; but the ineradicable female delight in being charming accepted him, for all that, in the character of a last chance. Armadale Mr. Sabin quietly but faultlessly attired in the usual evening dinner garb, Mr. Skinner ill-dressed, untidy, unwashed and frowsy. The Yellow Crayon "Yes, ma'am," he replied politely, adjusting a frowsy cap over one ear. The Financier, a novel A frowsy, fat woman with flying hair followed the missile. Whirligigs I looked at the frowsy derelict with more interest. Options It was very narrow, and while infants played in the unclean gutters, frowsy women discussed domestic or more exciting matters with women on the opposite side. London's Underworld For company I would mingle with them: ragged men, frowsy women, ageless youths, gathered round the red glow of some coffee stall. Paul Kelver, a Novel In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep; That straw where many a rogue has lain of yore, And vermin'd gipsies litter'd heretofore. Poems and Songs of Robert Burns It was a little, low, frowsy room opening into Jones' Alley. On the Track She promised to meet him in Deauville, the coming summer, "though," she sighed, "it's becoming too dreadfully banal; nothing but Americans and frowsy English baronesses." Babbitt What matter though some of them are a bit frowsy and not over-clean? they have precious little time to attend to their personal adornment. London's Underworld An ineradicable, invincible, provincialism of envy and vanity clings to the forms of its thought like a frowsy garment. Notes on Life and Letters On the starboard was a stateroom for the captain; on the port, a pair of frowsy berths, one over the other, and abutting astern upon the side of an unsavoury cupboard. The Wrecker He was of great stature, seemingly blonde as a viking, his hair clustering round his head in frowsy curls, and two enormous whiskers, like the tusks of some strange animal, jutting from his cheeks. The Wrecker |
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