| 单词 | frowzy |
| 例句 | What I want is a mirror, to see if my lipstick is all right, whether the feathers are too ridiculous, too frowzy. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Letting yourself go is an alarming notion; it is said of older women who become frowzy and fat, and of things that are sold cheap. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z More devastatingly, he finds himself sentenced to live past the Georgian era into the frowzy Victorian age, which could not suit him less, with its “sanctimonious” attitudes and “piety,” as he disdainfully proclaims. Review: ‘Being Mr. Wickham’ Tracks a Rake’s Progress 2023-06-06T04:00:00Z He’s ready for the national stage even if he’s rumpled and frowzy. Perspective | Vogue can make anyone look glamorous, including Pete Buttigieg 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z The excellent Ms. Rogers returns as Harry’s frowzy helpmeet, a woman narcotized by monotony, who can still put on the dog for a handsome stranger. Review: A Criminally Enjoyable ‘Hangmen’ from Martin McDonagh 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z In the latest installment, Ms. Moulton, wearing a wig and a frowzy housedress, continues her journey through the world of New Age products and theories. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z We have to get rid of that dumpy old frowzy Elvira. Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, Is Halloween's True Queen 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z And this show includes both actual Minoan artifacts, such as a frowzy female figurine dating to 1600-1450 B.C., lent by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and forgeries Evans acquired on the site. Remaking Ancient Greece, With Paints or Pixels 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewed ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z “I was frowzy and unshaven and I get in the elevator, and there’s Betsy, coming back from lunch with three handsome men,” he said. A Leap Into Their First Marriage 2020-03-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Staunton, a magnificent Momma Rose in “Gypsy” two years ago, is surely the frowziest, most compellingly neurotic Sally ever. Showgirls, a Monster and a Drag Queen: Singing Songs of Self 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Each year, right about now, I want to declare it Throw-in-the-Trowel-Week, as the aftermath of spring’s tender, joyous effusion goes beyond charmingly fuzzy to just plain frowzy and tattered. It’s peak frustration time in the garden, but you can get past it 2021-07-13T04:00:00Z When they arrived at Superfine, they pointed to the old frowzy reBar sign and awning, the shuttered doors, and asked their photographer to snap a picture of them underneath. ReBar, Once a Brooklyn Wedding Destination, Is Now a Neighborhood Blight 2015-07-03T04:00:00Z Rural, dusty, cracked public-houses; with frowzy gardens, with rotten, sloppy tables and benches; with beery gorillas playing at quoits and ninepins. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z Their immediate surroundings were a scrawny, frowzy landscape. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z The man huddled frowzily in the tree crotch, like a rumpled and sick raccoon. Lad: A Dog 2012-02-08T03:00:19.720Z To have seen her big person and frowzy head in the dining-room would have been fatal to appetite had I ever had the folly, under any circumstances, to ask her to wait. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z The miserable waste ground, where the refuse matter had been heaped of yore, was swallowed up and gone, and in its frowzy stead were tiers of warehouses, crammed with rich goods and costly merchandise. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z It is doubtful if the unkempt child wading in the muddy gutter ever turns his frowzy head when these dismal retinues stream past him. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z A frowzy drunken scrub-woman emerged in a gorgeous ball dress, a costly fur cap on her head, with two gold watches dangling from her neck. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z At the third ring, a frowzy coloured maid, in a soiled apron, which she was still frantically tying, opened the door; and when she saw Caroline, a sympathetic grin widened her mouth. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Then, as we were on the point of leaving town for some weeks, we handed over our chambers to the frowzy old charwoman, and sent Trimmer down to the sea at Hastings. Our House And London out of Our Windows 2012-02-03T03:00:24.190Z A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewed ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z On Friday, for the first time, I reminded my mother of my own accord that my head needed washing, that it was frowzy. Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z He expected a frowzy little waif from an orphanage, blear-eyed, sad, soulful and tiresome. The Sins of the Father A Romance of the South 2011-07-10T02:00:23.033Z Other short and frowzy alleys run against the soiled chalk, and end there with a whimsical abruptness. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z A fat, untidy woman with frowzy reddish hair. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z But the former tenant did not have red hair; her hair was the loveliest brown; nor was she the least bit frowzy; she was the very opposite extreme to that. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z She quit work, and beamed upon her frowzy, tatterdemalion progeny, proud as if each had been a world conqueror instead of a dirt-enameled midgit of ignorance. A Maid of the Kentucky Hills 2011-02-04T03:00:15.877Z It was an unspeakably vulgar voice, yet it was not the voice of a countrywoman, and there were frowzy remnants of respectability about her general aspect. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z But vaguely he saw a rickety bed with a patchwork counterpane and frowzy recesses masked by cheap cretonnes in a pattern of disemboweled black and crimson fruits. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Jeanne, who had charge of the family while lazy Mollie dozed in one of the frowzy bunks, decided to give her charges a bath. The Cinder Pond 2011-05-17T02:00:20.320Z I was almost at the door when the frowzy little dame in the corner, which I had forgotten she was there, come over and touched me on the arm. Believe You Me! I slid on the West Shore line, I slid till midnight, and they dumped me down at the door of a frowzy hotel in Elmira. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel I looked up and beheld the frowzy, perspiring barkeeper, in his usual shirt-sleeves. A Veldt Vendetta He started, reddened in his old womanish fashion, and, when he recognized me at last, stood cringing, holding his frowzy hat in both hands with a subservient humility pitiful to see. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 A lighter lay alongside loaded with sacks and cases, and the friction-winch shrieked and jerked the sling into the air as a gang of frowzy Greeks hooked them on. Command You, Ronayne, and you, Rossmoyne, can sympathize with me: 'In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowzy couch in sorrow steep.' Rossmoyne One day Dryden, in a rage, drew the greedy bookseller with terrible force:— "With leering looks, bull-faced, and speckled fair, With two left legs and Judas-coloured hair, And frowzy pores that taint the ambient air." Old and New London Volume I See “Don Juan,” III, stanza 94: “A drowsy frowzy poem, called the Excursion, Writ in a manner which is my aversion.” born in a garret. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity. The Long Day The Story of a New York Working Girl As Told by Herself A bearded man, whose eyes stared somewhat wildly from beneath a shock of frowzy hair, entered the Collins work-room and locked the door behind him. Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 It was well painted, too, and stood out amongst its frowzy neighbors a thing approaching beauty. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country And that picture was of crowds, crowds, crowds—of people living frowzily. The Harbor That was the state of affairs when Lieutenant Bascom, with the cocksureness of the young and the intolerance of the Easterner for frowzy Indians, made a decision. When the West Was Young The frowzy lady smiled and motioned us to sit down on a low couch beside the door. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' For the kind of person the Princess had changed into was a blowzy, frowzy dairymaid, with oily black hair and shining red cheeks, and little black eyes like the currant eyes in gingerbread pigs. Oswald Bastable and Others There was a great din of voices coming from its frowzy interior, and he wondered. The One-Way Trail A story of the cattle country This, indeed, forms no part of their character; on the contrary they are what Swift would call a frowzy people. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton But it was a mass of frowzy curls that seemed full of sunshine. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Madame Simone, who bustled in from the back room, was not in black, but in frowzy gray; her coiffure was not à la Marcel, but as Letty described it, “all anyway.” The Dust Flower And sure enough the green silk curtains were presently drawn back, and the drowsy, blowzy, frowzy face of the dairymaid looked out. Oswald Bastable and Others Out into a sun-bright bay we swept with a feeling of being in safe waters once more, and rounded-to about sunset at a point on the island just above a frowzy little town. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Drowsy, drowsy, A little frowzy Gold-locked head Turns on its pillow, yawns, and winks; Lifts from its pillow, peeps, and blinks; Turns in bed; Then with a slow, reluctant shake, Is almost wide awake. The Nursery, April 1877, Vol. XXI. No. 4 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Keeping close in the shadow of this creature's frowzy skirts, she had not so feared and dreaded those light eyes of Bough's, and the padding, following footsteps had kept aloof. The Dop Doctor There were babies at Elegant Corners—a frowzy, listless mud-hole of the woods, near by. Christmas Eve at Swamp's End She knelt down there in the grave, her poor, frowzy head showin,' an' she tacked away like we told her to, an' she never said another word. Friendship Village A frowzy old hobo poked a somnolent head up from a pile of lumber near the tracks and yawned welcome to the recruit. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Behind the desk, perplexed and distracted but still grimly firm, stood frowzy Widow Larken herself, drawn and held to the post of duty by this vast and unusual emergency. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man The frowzy woman with the bleached hair happened to come in at that moment; or had she been spying through a crack of the door? The Dop Doctor Mrs. Dysart took off her bonnet, a sacred edifice constructed of cotton velvet, frowzy feathers, and red glass currants, and gazed at it penitentially. The Wizard's Daughter and Other Stories She was a young fresh-faced woman, in the first year of her wifehood, and her snowy chemise and tidy petticoat made her shine like a star among the dirty and frowzy creatures in the kitchen. Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland She was staring abstractedly at a wary robin that had stopped to rest on a fence post, his beak all frowzy with the débris from a recent drilling. Stubble She has light, frowzy hair, and a round, full figure. Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915 They went to him, and took up and carried him into the tavern, and laid him down upon a frowzy bed in the room where the child lay upon the iron-framed cot. The Dop Doctor Or you might say that these were but the flying-buttresses, the floriated pinnacles, the frets, and the gargoyles of a great frowzy cathedral lying vast and solid far below. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 "The very wan, mind ye!" replied the lady of the house, with significant emphasis and glance from her bleary eyes; "the very wan," she finished, with slow nodding accompaniment of the frowzy head. Waring's Peril From all the frowzy purlieus of the town they crept forth into the sunlight to array themselves under the banner of the prince of scallawags. A Rivermouth Romance "Only she happens to be her sister, and that tiresome, frowzy old Frosty, as you call her, has looked after her since she was a little child, when her mother died." A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls The sun went down, and the stars peeped out serenely upon the frowzy and wretched tramp asleep against the haystack; and the dew settled thickly on his ragged beard and tattered clothes. The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn Wordsworth's last quarto, by the way, is bigger Than any since the birthday of typography; A drowsy frowzy poem, call'd the 'Excursion.' Don Juan And suddenly the image of Hilda in that dark and frowzy tenement in Preston Street, on that wet Sunday morning, filled his heart with a revolt capricious and violent. Clayhanger Also in from the kitchen piles the haughty waitress with the mustard-tinted hair, and a dumpy, frowzy one228 that I hadn't noticed before. Shorty McCabe on the Job The inn was perfectly worthy of the place; a frowzy kennel of bustling Yahoos, totally deficient in that readiness and attention which can put a reasonable traveller in good humour with the worst accommodations. Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 On the occasion of the betrothal she had arrived late, dressed in indescribable odds and ends, with an artificial red flower stuck into her frowzy wig. The Promised Land He now works all day p. 119in his Net-loft; and I wonder how he keeps as well as he is, shut up there from fresh Air, and among frowzy Nets. Two Suffolk Friends These transactions, and the faces of the frowzy lodgers were clearly visible to the watchers across the road, but none of the men resembled Nepcote. The Hand in the Dark Its frowzy blinds were down, and out on the Pool nothing moved but a fishing-boat sweeping in upon the first of the flood. The Adventures of Harry Revel They saw the women and children of the latter huddled at the edge of the Indian camp, while officers, sergeants, and soldiers were sent searching through the frowzy lodges for secreted arms. To The Front A Sequel to Cadet Days As he passed along, a frowzy woman in a Mother Hubbard greeted him from a verandah and asked him to enter. Civilization Tales of the Orient A frowzy, cocky-looking bird flew into the tree just above her head and balanced himself on the limb. The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping It was fearfully hot and frowzy—a little stove in the corner threw out a great heat, and the men all began to smoke, which made it worse. Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia Issue an edict against frowzy pompadours and "frizzes," pointing out the necessity for having smooth, neat hair, particularly in the kitchen. The Complete Home The Susi muleteer, who was accompanied by a boy and four men, one a slave, and all quite as frowzy, unwashed, and picturesque as himself, swore that we did not need four pack-mules but eight. Morocco Frowzy and husky is the hair Nature crowns him with; frowzy and stubby the beard. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 From windows frowzy heads were thrust out and rude women mocked at me. Miss Caprice Dinner over, she was uneasy until she had dragged her eager-eyed young husband up to the desert island of their third-floor front—a dingy room, with a black-marble mantelpiece, and a worn and frowzy carpet. The Vehement Flame It was one of those mornings of coolness after cloying heat when even the crowded, reeking, frowzy metropolis wakes with a breath of freshness in its nostrils. Success A Novel I can take care of myself,' Ann Eliza said, with a bounce up in her chair, which set every loose hair of her frowzy head to flying. Tracy Park Mrs. Foster herself, dirty, slipshod, a frowzy mass, hugs her fireside. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls On learning that the intruder was a "friend," they allowed him to waken the porter, who thrust his frowzy head from the half-open door to ask, in surprise, what was wanted. The Nameless Castle But the end of it all was a frowzy, hopeless disorder. The Dark House No gentle blood in him, no hospitality, not even pleasant language, nor a good new oath in his frowzy pate! Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 His golden hair was tucked away beneath the collar of his coat, and his head was covered by a frowzy dark wig, that looked like untrimmed natural hair. Tom Tufton's Travels The sisters wash at the sink, Mika combing her mass of frowzy dark hair, talking meanwhile. The Woman Who Toils Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls Their hair is tangled, frowzy, dirty, covering half the face on some of them. Savva and the Life of Man Two plays by Leonid Andreyev His eyes could discover nothing that was not mean, ugly, frowzy, and unimaginative. The Roll-Call It was still musty, close, and frowzy, with half awakened passengers. Frontier Stories The engine—a frowzy machine at the best—had been purposely disabled. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 44, June, 1861 Creator The place was frowzy and ill-smelling, but he did not care. The Blood Red Dawn For an instant a peering face was there; then it was gone--there was only the Dutchman's frowzy wig and striped woolen cap. Master Skylark Colonel Hullocher had vanished out of his world, and he had been sent to another and still more frowzy public-house which was the Headquarters of No. 2 Battery of the Second Brigade. The Roll-Call You have known men of lowly origin who had in them the makings of gentlemen, but whom this single malign influence has condemned to coarse manners and a frowzy, repulsive home for life. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 The four made an oasis of aristocracy in the seething, shouting, frowzy, gaudy, Southern crowd, running about with the scrambling, undignified haste of ants, sweating, gesticulating, their faces contorted with care over their poor belongings. The Bent Twig Hugh, with much low growling and muttering, went back into his lair; and presently reappeared, carrying a lantern and a cudgel, and enveloped from head to foot in an old, frowzy, slouching horse-cloth. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Such hair as he had was of a grizzled black, cut short and straight upon his temples, and hanging in a frowzy fringe about his ears. The Old Curiosity Shop At the end of this he came to a frowzy bedroom, the door of which stood ajar. The Conquest of Canaan "I wouldn't play, nor sing, nor go to walk, nor anything; and I wore horrid frowzy wrappers all the time, and—" "Oh, come, come, Billy," expostulated the man. Miss Billy — Married Elma was a perfect contrast to her untidy mother and her frowzy sister. Wild Kitty I'll take my oath he don't;' and hiding his profile from Hugh with one long end of his frowzy neckerchief, nodded and chuckled behind this screen in extreme approval of the secretary's proceedings. Barnaby Rudge: a tale of the Riots of 'eighty Of course there has been found in Maine some one irreverent enough to trot a lame Pegasus over this grave, and accuse the frowzy old red-skin of Christian virtues and delicate romance. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 There was a tumbled-down barn and chicken house, and a frowzy attempt at a garden. Lo, Michael! She refuses to dress up, because it is easier to take care of baby in a frowzy wrapper. Miss Billy — Married They passed a frowzy chambermaid, who stared at them with a yawn. The Greater Inclination You, with all the important things you have to carry in your head, to waste a minute on that frowzy old hag! With the Procession As he drew near the public-house that chiefly poisoned the neighbourhood, it opened its hell-jaws, and cast out a woman in frowzy black, wiping her mouth under her veil with a dirty pocket-handkerchief. There & Back He went first to the top floor, stopping at one door after another, where dirty, frowzy women and children opened at the sound of his cheery whistle. The Bishop's Shadow "You certainly look like a frowzy tramp, Jack," she told her brother judiciously, "and you need sleep," she informed Darrow. The Sign at Six So it would seem that under this blinking, frowzy exterior desire spreads its wings. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Here ballad-bellowing, and organ grinding, and voices of costermongers, singing of poor men's luxuries, never ceased all through the hum of day, and penetrated far into the frowzy repose of latest night. Hide and Seek Eaton Square is a desolate wilderness, where dusty sparrows alone disturb the dreams of frowzy charwomen, who, like Anchorites amid the tombs of the Thebaid, fulfil the contemplative life each in her subterranean cell. Two Years Ago, Volume II. A pair of frowzy cubs, as uncertain on their feet and as woolly as puppies, came tumbling along. The Wonderful Adventures of Nils Among the frowzy turnip tops two big dull gray automobiles were stranded, like large hulks in a small green sea. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front Generally it is frowzy and matted, so that its natural form is difficult to recognize. The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes Alighting we passed through a small boozing ken, where a frowzy woman presided over a bar, serving drinks to smocked marketmen, and at the rear descended a steep flight of stone steps. Europe Revised I feel sodden all through me, and frowzy, and broken! The Dynasts There was no doubt of that; neither was there any doubt that the big, frowzy, red-headed, red-faced, over-fat woman sitting near the door-way, smoking a pipe quite comfortably, was very much alive. Rilla of Ingleside Wylie took off his hat, rubbed his frowzy hair, and gaped after the cab. Foul Play Their cadaverous faces, their brutish expressions, and their frowzy clothes, proclaimed them, to my eye, as belonging to the vilest blackguard type that the civilized earth has yet produced—the blackguard of London growth. Poor Miss Finch The year seems already getting old and frowzy. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Rising on her elbow, she gazed wonderingly at the frowzy woman stretched near her on a pallet. The Ward of King Canute; a romance of the Danish conquest In the estaminets of France and Flanders they danced with frowzy peasant girls to the tune of a penny-in-the-slot piano, or, failing the girls, danced with one another. Now It Can Be Told On a bench nearby a frowzy loafer opened his red eyes and perceived that his moral support was due a downtrodden brother. Strictly business: more stories of the four million And truly I saw Johnny Upright, and his good wife and fair daughters, and frowzy slavey, like so many ghosts flitting eastward through the gloom, the monster city roaring at their heels. The People of the Abyss The fat, seedy man at his side sniffed, and shook his frowzy head slowly and disparagingly. Options They could see the household servants hurrying hither and thither, two little scullions at fisticuffs, and a kitchen girl standing in the door-way scratching her frowzy head. Men of Iron A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole. Great Expectations And here to the doorstep came the “slavey,” very frowzy and very perplexed, to tell me that the missus would let me come back and wait in the kitchen. The People of the Abyss |
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