| 单词 | shabbiness |
| 例句 | The paint was peeling on buildings, the streets pitted with potholes, and the whole estate resigned to its own shabbiness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z It was, for a long time, in spite of—or, not inconceivably, because of—the shabbiness of my motives, my only sustenance, my meat and drink. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z A moment later a small girl appears in the doorway, dressed too nicely for the chaotic shabbiness of the surroundings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Being young and from the sticks, I found the shabbiness displaced by the excitement of arriving in London. St. Pancras International was London’s Valentine to Europe 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z You knew that your shabbiness betrayed you; it was apparent for all to see. Rereading: Love on the Dole by Walter Greenwood 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Their sex, violence, flagrance and occasional shabbiness would get them grouped together — lumped, I would say — as blaxploitation. ‘Amazing Grace’ Review: Aretha Franklin Is Glorious in a Rousing Concert Film 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The costumes and art, with their deep colors and stylized shabbiness and sumptuous austerity, are like a Prada ad for working-class gloom. “My Brilliant Friend,” Reviewed: A Prada Ad for Working-Class Gloom, but with Shades of Humble Tenderness 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z You could call this camp heaven, and indeed “Lily Dare,” a Primary Stages production, offers both the euphoria and the shabbiness that term can suggest. Review: Camp and Compassion in ‘The Confession of Lily Dare’ 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z An extremely rare variation popped up in 1886: “How these things impress the lover of Gothic who dwells in a country of churches of inexpressible trumperiness and shabbiness!” Trump really does stand for B.S.: “Trumpery,” an old-fashioned word that’s proving useful today 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z I felt jealous of you to begin with: echoes of your happy life spent in your large, wisteria-clad Victorian house, family heirlooms, your art room, an air of slight shabbiness – the way you wanted it. A letter to … my partner’s late wife 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z But the futility of Trump’s new ritual, its shabbiness and self-satire, suggests that he doesn’t have a clue about the symbolic city he wants to claim as his own. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z Your best-known characters now are men who, underneath their exterior shabbiness, possess at least the potential to redeem themselves. ‘Black Widow’ Star David Harbour Loves Being a Big-Screen Loser 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z He had, it seems, an almost gleeful appreciation of shabbiness, sordidness, decay, misshapenness, and irregularity—falling houses, untended gardens, the mess and slime on the Thames down toward Gravesend. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z But this shabbiness seems to allow for a kind of recklessness in the performers, something that feels refreshing in our prepared and controlled daily lives. Still Life: Shakespeare in the Park, Delacorte Theater, a Summer Ritual 2012-08-14T17:47:21Z When Gu-nam visits a relative, the family’s entire story — its hopes and crushing defeats — is telegraphed by the shabbiness of a room and an old man’s one-sentence apology. | 'The Yellow Sea': ?The Yellow Sea,? From South Korea - Review 2011-12-02T00:20:58Z Ms. Gates joked about the shabbiness of her current office, as only someone about to move into much better accommodations would. Glorya Kaufman School of Dance Adds a New Dimension to Arts in Los Angeles 2015-08-26T04:00:00Z The lack of imagination in this decision staggers the mind, but the shabbiness of it is just plain old politics. New mayor’s killing of D.C. cultural project shows only money matters 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z As the camera pans out, a battered Confederate flag buckles and billows in the wind, in what appears to show honor and resilience, despite the flag's shabbiness and the Confederacy's defeat. “BlacKkKlansman” and white women: Spike Lee’s new film indicts their investment in white su... 2018-08-10T04:00:00Z The plot is gripping, the characters alive, and the backdrop the shabbiness of a collapsing system. Michael Stanley's top 10 African crime novels 2010-06-30T14:27:00Z Jules parks his mail-mobile and heads into one of those run-down teatros whose shabbiness imparts a kind of glory, the sort of ruin whose functionality makes the present feel like the future. It Took Me 40 Years to Watch the Movie ‘Diva.’ It Was Worth the Wait. 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z This wheezing, cranky, incontinent pair of roommates from the Upper West Side are bringing shabbiness back to sanitized, glamorized Times Square. Review: ‘Oh, Hello on Broadway’ Stars an Even Odder Couple 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z It was as if I could see my life clearly for the very first time, its shabbiness, its mean-spirited insignificance. T Magazine: Room With a Purview 2011-11-25T17:30:45Z But all credit to Hare for giving us his shabbiness as well as his triumphs. ‘The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir,’ by David Hare 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z The forms remind one a bit of sculptures by Richard Serra, but they lack Serra’s brute celebration of strength, suggesting the shabbiness and decay of industry rather than its militant force. Newly scrubbed Renwick Gallery opens Friday 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z If Mel and Sue are casualties, the fanbase’s disgust at the shabbiness of the transition from the BBC will transform them into martyrs, too good for this world of filthy lucre. I love The Great British Bake Off, but won't miss Mel and Sue 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z The beauties are the glamor routes, the passenger trains that, whatever shabbiness may have befallen their interiors, more than make up for it with the grandeur of what lies outside their windows. Patt Morrison: Is California about to lose its most beautiful train ride? 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z Q: Well, you do describe the character of the average bookseller as one of “morose, unsociable shabbiness.” What’s it like to own a bookstore in our digitized age? 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z There were plenty of interesting design twists: One jean jacket in Japanese denim had a regal stiffness, which nicely contrasting with the shabbiness of one of its breast pockets being missing. Layering, statement denim hit Paris Fashion Week 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z But if they’re dumb enough to post their shabbiness on social media, even if they assumed it would remain private, their professionalism and integrity are in tatters, and they pose a big liability going forward. Column: Had enough of Garcetti? I have a plan to finally fix L.A. 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Yet there was a creeping shabbiness to the place that made it affordable for the likes of us. Opinion | Bernie, your moment has come — and gone 2019-02-19T05:00:00Z His moral shabbiness is a minor thing, they say, over against the forces of evil that assail him. A moral crisis grips the US border. Yet the religious right is shamefully silent | Marilynne Robinson 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z At first, the joke appears to be about the corporate sham of fancifying such shabbiness. Jordan Peele’s X-Ray Vision 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z "Why paint shabbiness? It's perverse. But that's what makes their work interesting and really rather wonderful." Art mystery: The famed painters who vanished into obscurity 2017-09-23T04:00:00Z Life in our tiny home is characterized above all by shabbiness. What No One Ever Tells You About Tiny Homes 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z At an investor meeting last month Target executives spoke bluntly about the shabbiness of many of the chain’s stores. Target revamps stores for those in a rush, those who ramble 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z Of course, shabbiness is a hallmark of the new regime. Trump’s travel ban is a national embarrassment 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z "Vendors are associated with shabbiness, but people want to buy food from someone who is smartly dressed," said the 35-year-old father of three, a tailor by profession. Zimbabwe's street vendors turn on the style to win customers 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z “Vendors are associated with shabbiness, but people want to buy food from someone who is smartly dressed,” said the 35-year-old father of three, a tailor by profession. Zimbabwe's street vendors turn on the style to win customers 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z To Poles who grew up under Communist rule, fizzy alcoholic beverages made from apples, known as jabolami, were the epitome of socialist shabbiness, drunk only by misty-eyed seniors lamenting the days of Gomulka and Gierek. When Life Gives You Apples, Make Cider 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z If a landlord is willing to show an apartment in a state of shabbiness or disrepair, it’s a good sign he’ll be slow to address any maintenance requests, as well. 6 Red Flags To Look For When Apartment Shopping 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Gee, luxury and shabbiness would seem to be inconsistent! Recession Fashion 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z He recalls the shabbiness of the kind of places the Manics once played, but also the romance they embodied. Can the UK's 'toilet circuit' of small music venues survive? 2013-02-22T16:30:00Z And her toleration of the diverse opinions of others enabled her to worship as comfortably under the high-vaulted magnificence of a Catholic cathedral as within the narrow shabbiness of a Wesleyan chapel. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z The place was shabby, as befitted a hole-in-corner enterprise, but Terry saw not that shabbiness. Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z For all that, I knew your hatred of shabbiness and wrong. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The hospital now stands in all its grim shabbiness and ugliness, though a barn near by, filled with goods of all kinds, including a piano, of course, perished. The Story of the Great Fire in St. John, N.B., June 20th, 1877 2012-03-27T02:00:21.067Z They brought but one message to her eyes that were vexed with shabbiness, to her soul that was shrunk by privation—riches. The Devourers 2012-03-16T02:00:23.493Z In the great hall of the hotel we first realized the full extent of our shabbiness. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z Their dress alone betrayed that, not by dint of shabbiness, but rather by its excessive and ill-judged smartness. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z Sportsmen like you don't know the small tricks and shabbiness we others are forced to use. Wyndham's Pal 2012-04-04T02:00:54.360Z The dreary shabbiness of her little drawing-room was accentuated by some of those attempts at decoration with which a woman of scanty means and no taste commonly surrounds herself. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z The place has obviously degenerated since his time; an air of shabbiness and thriftlessness prevails, and ancient smells by no means suggestive of "the odors of Araby the blest" obtrude upon the pilgrim. A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Haunts of Famous British Authors 2012-02-17T03:00:36.500Z He was now a London taxi-driver, with all the signs of that mystery on him: the shabbiness, the weariness, the disdain. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-11T03:03:44.993Z It was still a handsome room, and on the annual occasion of the South Meadshire Hunt Ball, its shabbiness disguised with flowers, it had quite an air. The Eldest Son 2012-01-24T03:00:28.780Z Little touches of effeminacy about his dress failed to take the attention away from its shabbiness. A Woman of Genius 2012-01-18T03:00:09.517Z Quite apart from the shabbiness of the snuff-coloured fabric, it was amply evident that the wearer did not dress by rule or measure. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z She wore the gayest hats, which only served to emphasize the poverty and shabbiness of the rest of her clothes. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z But try as I may, I cannot see St. Joseph's as it was, cannot see any detail, nothing save the general shabbiness and untidiness that shocked my convent-bred eyes. Our Philadelphia 2011-11-23T03:00:41.453Z What a charming girl to be set among all this shabbiness! The Enchanted Barn 2011-10-13T02:00:50.933Z The shabbiness of the furniture was concealed by new covers, the broken places in the frames of the pictures and mirrors were twined with ivy. The Jew 2011-10-06T02:00:34.840Z Their shabbiness rather took the shine out of the voluptuousnesses she had tried, and failed, to get upon her canvas. A Crooked Mile 2011-10-03T02:00:26.870Z In the gilded, leafy confines of Forest Hills Gardens in Queens, the house on Greenway North and Puritan Avenue stands out for its shabbiness. City Room: A Shabby Queens Home at the Center of John Haggerty's Trial 2011-09-30T21:59:46Z The people of my household tell me they are shabby, but as I never see them divorced from a hundred gentle associations, their shabbiness matters nothing to me. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z Neatness always attracts, just as shabbiness invariably repulses. Successward A Young Man's Book for Young Men 2011-08-15T02:00:27.860Z Soldiers of the best regiments looked like wandering minstrels, worse than the attendants from other commands; but all bow before these rags, before this rust and shabbiness, for they are the banners of heroes. With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. 2011-08-12T02:00:19.797Z She would have wept over its shabbiness had she ever been able to find tears for such purposes. Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline A Story of the Development of a Young Girl's Life 2011-08-09T02:00:30.317Z For the first time Throckmorton noticed the extreme shabbiness of Barn Elms. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z Yet if each one of that circle does the same, the general shabbiness is increased. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z On the one side, at the colourlessness, the shabbiness, the squalid monotony of virtue; on the other, at the enervating and degrading effects of vice. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Some persons would set it down to the shabbiness of his appearance, or to the brusqueness of his manners, or to the fact that his consulting-room often reeked with the fumes of cheap tobacco. All Men are Ghosts 2011-06-28T02:00:12.497Z How preferable are the simple demure costume of the Mennonite women and their little Alsacian caps, to the mingled elegance and shabbiness of the Moravian sisters. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The waiting-room of the station was decorated with palms which had not felt the patter of rain for years, and with rugs evidently trodden to shabbiness by many royal feet. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z And, indeed, I had felt, as I saw it coming in, how out of keeping its shabbiness was with all the satin damask, the gilding, and the lace. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z Once inside the house, Martine, without meaning to be critical, was slightly impressed by the general air of shabbiness. Brenda's Ward A Sequel to 'Amy in Acadia' 2011-05-20T02:00:37.457Z Many a wife is wearied and neglected into moral shabbiness, who, rightly entreated, would have walked sister and wife of the gods. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z The walls are cracked, and the house has an indescribable aspect of shabbiness and neglect. From the Easy Chair, series 3 2011-05-14T02:00:12.237Z In the improvement of this point, New York has a splendid opportunity to redeem the shabbiness of its seaward aspect. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z There were urgent need of repairs, and a general shabbiness of detail that was pitiable: the high wooden pews looked comfortless, ordinary candles evidently furnished a dim and insufficient light. Heriot's Choice A Tale 2011-04-20T02:00:22.760Z Over all, however, was the shabbiness of respectable poverty which descends upon great possessions when they become relics of a vanished prosperity. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z But there are gradations of age and shabbiness in her frieze coats, and to-day she may don the oldest. Doctor Cupid 2011-03-13T03:00:23.987Z Against the background of usual shabbiness one or two brilliant social stars stand forth, making one wonder how they came there. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z All its monotony, all its misery, its shabby dreariness, its dreary shabbiness, rose up before her with redoubled force; and the terror of that hideous existence smote her like a stroke from a giant's hand. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z In these days of "theatrical upholstery," we can scarcely realize the shabbiness of the stage of the last century. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z So eloquent in its faded shabbiness of the many fierce storms and the many merciless suns which had beaten upon his tireless ministrations to suffering humanity! Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z This young gentleman, who always wore long curling locks, an eyeglass, and a romantic cloak which covered a multitude of shabbinesses, fully allayed Raphael's fears as to the difficulties of editorship. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z And all the meanness and shabbiness and effrontery of the monstrous city, all its civic pretence and tarnished ostentation are suddenly revealed when the summer sun blazes over Ascalon. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z People ceased to wonder at the shabbiness of his furniture and the dilapidation of his house, when they were made aware of this fact. The Doctor's Wife 2011-03-06T03:00:18.770Z I fancied I could perceive a certain shabbiness about them—perhaps not so much that, as a threadbareness—the evidence of long wear: for the materials were of a costly kind. The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z I have viewed, for example, Leicester Square between four and five of a summer morning, and have marvelled at its dismal disarray and quite miserable shabbiness of aspect. Far Off Things 2011-02-04T03:00:19.967Z The silver handle of this cane, which did not harmonise with the shabbiness of his clothing, recalled something to Lilly connected with chilliness, warm rolls, autumnal glow, and Sunday chimes. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z To-day, the bright sunshine only made the shabbiness of the streets more shabby. The Ivory Gate, a new edition 2010-12-25T03:00:10.617Z In the eighteen-eighties a good deal of old-fashioned shabbiness and jollity lingered about Harvard. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z I was there unknown; and in a congregation of English peasantry, the one-half of whom were in their smock-frocks, there were none to observe the shabbiness of my garments. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of the insolvent waiters on insolvency, was a sight to see. In Jail with Charles Dickens His shabbiness was all on the outside, and he seemed transfigured to me and clad in garments of glory. Labor and Freedom We seemed to have reached the poorest part of the town, and the houses were quite picturesque in their shabbiness. Glories of Spain The shabbiness of the old days had been put by. The Key to Yesterday Therefore I did not receive him coldly, because of the shabbiness of his coat, and the misery of his appearance. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 16 The Captain himself was in the last extremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, old brown great coat, with no other coat below it. In Jail with Charles Dickens In the office stood a little man, gray and poorly dressed, yet with that attempt at fashion that strives through shabbiness after at least an echo of smart effect. The Tempering The interview that bewildered me would have been, for instance, a danger signal to my mother, who would, too, having seen how the richness of furniture contradicted outside shabbiness, have had her suspicions aroused. Life on the Stage Yet in the most showy pageantry there is likely to be an element of unutterable shabbiness. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology You have in this man an example of the shabbiness of the world. Joseph in the Snow, and The Clockmaker In Three Volumes. Vol. III. The air was heavily odorous and the gas lights flared garishly, thrusting the stark shabbiness of the hall and its occupants into high relief. Thirty The dirt and shabbiness and lack of plan and good humour and crime and indecency and priggishness—its life! The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary She detested shabbiness; it was the only thing that depressed her spirits. Ancestors A Novel I saw and felt that she was weighing the shabbiness of my garments against my qualifications, and I trembled for the consequence. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 11 Weren't there perhaps times when George Riley sighed over the shabbiness of his clothes, realizing that, if only he were a little sportier, Ellen might not scorn him so utterly? The Rosie World He knew his answers were short and clumsy, and the feeling of shabbiness oppressed him more than ever. Their Son; The Necklace The rear door of the cottage opened, and a young man appeared, a distinctly unprepossessing young 198 man, whose shabby clothing somehow suggested a corresponding shabbiness of soul. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted While she liked Bohemia and was entirely indifferent to shabbiness, she had never grown accustomed to vulgarities, and that they should be embodied in her adopted sister filled her with a futile wrath. Ancestors A Novel The fellow was of a rough appearance, his clothing in the last stages of shabbiness. Roy Blakeley in the Haunted Camp Ferdinand Lassalle dressed with elegance for his working-men audiences, with the hope, he said, of reminding them that there was something better than their shabbiness. The Kempton-Wace Letters His shabbiness is another offence to Mrs. Patrick. An Isle in the Water Hence came the shabbiness—and also, perhaps, some of the arrogance—of which his friends complained. Under False Pretences A Novel I am continually overlooking the shabbiness and rascality of the world, I find, in spite of the early apprenticeship which I served among business friends. Aliens It almost seemed as though she took a pride in their shabbiness. Anxious Audrey Of course, they were both wondering what she was doing with this man, and once again the consciousness of her own shabbiness overwhelmed her. The Beggar Man The Guildhall Library was much frequented until shabbiness was excluded by the policeman. The Hound of Heaven Owing partly therefore to the shabbiness, partly to the untidiness, partly to the very comfort of the slightly overheated room, the visitor who entered it did not form a very high opinion of its occupant. Under False Pretences A Novel Perhaps he had something of the feeling of the successful struggler who tries to forget the shabbiness of the past. The Story of a New York House Irene already knew the worst there was to know of the shabbiness of the home, and Audrey's heart was at rest. Anxious Audrey She was small and slight, with timid, brown eyes and soft, fair hair and a certain daintiness of person that singled her out for attention in spite of the shabbiness of her clothes. The Beggar Man There was nothing to interest any one in the garments just escaping shabbiness, or in the pale face with its big dark-rimmed eyes. The Peace of Roaring River In the dim light, they looked fairly impressive, but she knew that if the lights were brighter the shabbiness would show. Fifty Per Cent Prophet The very shabbiness and paltriness of the fib made Anna's heart yearn over the poor lady. The Benefactress Her face was quite colourless, even to the lips, and her hands were clenched in the shabbiness of the cheap little muff she carried. The Phantom Lover I expect to see a vast deal of shabbiness and baseness and turmoil, and in the midst of it all I'm sure the inspiration of patriotism will sometimes fail. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 89, March, 1865 There is nothing that will keep you in a rut of shabbiness more than clinging to old clothes. The Heart of the New Thought "Cecily doesn't mind about the shabbiness of it," he heard Gilbert saying. Changing Winds A Novel Nowhere, with her best endeavours, could she discover the signs she was looking for of cheapness and shabbiness in less noticeable things that would have helped her to understand her hostess. The Benefactress Wives stood at the open doors of the old houses, some in Sabbath finery, some flaunting irreligiously their every-day shabbiness, without troubling even to arrange their one dress differently, as a pious Rabbi recommended. Dreamers of the Ghetto Everything about the house had the mark of a cultured taste, yet the cushioned chairs, the rugs, the soft-toned hangings were worn to shabbiness. Highacres He was thinking about Mary Faithful’s pleasant manner, the atmosphere of the old-fashioned house, where there was no effort to be smart or gorgeous or to conceal its shabbiness. The Gorgeous Girl He preceded a more natty person in a bottle-green, “shad-belly” coat, who strove to carry himself as though he were fashionably dressed, instead of wearing clothes which no longer could conceal their shabbiness. The Strollers The tele-columnist was a tall, dour and bushy-browed man who took a perverse sort of pride in the impression he gave of shabbiness. We're Friends, Now But the first night I went there my shabbiness attracted the discomforting attention of the fashionable diners, and made even the waiters offensive. The Book of Khalid Altho plain even to shabbiness in his own costume, and usually attired in black, no one ever understood better than he how to arrange such exhibitions in a striking and artistic style. The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index It had, to Steve’s mind, the same delightful air of freedom and attractive shabbiness that he had come to consider as essential for a true home. The Gorgeous Girl When he did call the shabbiness of the house and the manifest poverty of the family rather disgusted him, but somehow Jennie seemed as sweet to him as ever. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel All the ancient grandeur of the sitting-room seemed overclouded with shabbiness and untidiness. Ghetto Comedies William Wurcott was duly cried, and the pioneer of Bush Robin Creek pushed his way to the barrier and stood before the Court in all his hairiness and shabbiness. The Tale of Timber Town "But," we suggested, "isn't that cheapness at the cost of shabbiness, which no one can really afford?" Imaginary Interviews He unlocked it, rummaged, deliberated, selected finally a serge skirt, draggled but warm; a pair of woolen stockings, and shoes, stout for all their shabbiness. The Combined Maze Notwithstanding the shabbiness of his hat, and the strange and uncivilized aspect of his clothes, he is the richest man in that land of gold! The Land of Thor For, whereas Patsy could carry off her shabbiness before masculine eyes, she had neither the desire nor the fortitude to brave the keener, more critical gaze of her own sex. Seven Miles to Arden He was dressed in black clothes of an extreme shabbiness, and the only distinguishing feature of his appearance was a particularly long and formidable sword that flapped against his calves. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama Fred nodded, slowly drawing on his gloves, whose shabbiness affected his brother disagreeably. Otherwise Phyllis He was an alarming apparition in his great beard and his shabbiness, and the fugitive look he had. The Perpetual Curate The red-faced houses—all of brick—along the quay have a mixture of brightness and shabbiness, as well as the fashion of the open loggia in the top-storey. A Little Tour of France She was wholly aware of every inch of her appearance—the shabbiness of her brown Norfolk suit, the rakishness of her boyish brown beaver hat, and the vagabond gloves. Seven Miles to Arden Besides, there was a soupçon of shabbiness about her present attire, and then the shoeless feet! The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Mentally she was taking a scornful inventory of her own shabbiness. Glory and the Other Girl The stranger lodger was "a gentleman," notwithstanding his shabbiness, and he was a very civil-spoken gentleman, without a bit of pride; and Sarah was still a woman, though she was plain and a housemaid. The Perpetual Curate Nevertheless its great extent and the long perspective of its avenues give this frugal shrubbery a certain state; just as its shabbiness places it in agreement with one of the strongest impressions awaiting you. A Little Tour of France At present the dash, and go, and smartness of a motor-car seem strangely out of keeping with the spirit of leisure, and delay, and general shabbiness so marked in things Indian. India and the Indians After a little, this sense of shabbiness was suddenly supplanted by a perfect torment of apprehension lest Anthony should detect her hypocrisy. Anthony Lyveden Amidst the pitiful shabbiness which prevails may be found many little signs that the delight in comely things would go far if it dared. Change in the Village Ikey looked away so as not to see the perfect cut of it, the perfect fit of it, the utter shabbiness of it. McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Under the flood of silver light which the full moon here pours down, even its forlorn shabbiness is softened into something of romantic indistinctness. Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Alan was unprepared for the shabbiness of the house where the gambler lived. Starman's Quest I have not seen one handsomely dressed woman as yet in France; the best had always an air of shabbiness about her, which no milliner's daughter at home would shew. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. My dear Harry, do you suppose we shall ever agree as to what constitutes shabbiness? Dolly Reforming Herself A Comedy in Four Acts By night the boats are gorgeous with their mirrors and myriad lamps alight, and blackwood tables and stools inlaid with mother-of-pearl; but by the light of day they look tawdry to the point of shabbiness. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan The æsthetic philosophy was wearing thin; it had already begun to fray and reveal its essential shabbiness. Modern British Poetry It is a mercy Freddy does not see the old fashion, the shabbiness. A Sheaf of Corn There were carriages of every description of gentility or of shabbiness; there were horses and mules, donkey carts and ox carts, all crowded with eager spectators, and there were many foot passengers. Her Mother's Secret The eating-house, the rooms and hallways, were all of that desolate shabbiness which comes from shiftlessness joined with poverty. Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West The old dress she wore as unconscious of its shabbiness as though it were a royal robe. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan I think I shall be able to show you that economy does not always mean shabbiness. Vixen, Volume II. His clothes hung on him in folds; they were worn to an incredible shabbiness. The Creators A Comedy With the curtains drawn, and the lights burning, its shabbiness was unrevealed. The House with the Green Shutters Between the worldly circumstances of the two, there is nothing to choose; but as to everything else it is the difference between shabbiness and greatness. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete “I know they’re not rich,” she said to herself, “for the whole place shows neglect and shabbiness; but there’s something besides lack of money that makes Madam Cromarty sad.” Patty's Friends A man entered who, in spite of the shabbiness of his clothing, his emaciation and the haggardness of his features the reader would have had no difficulty in recognizing. Little Lost Sister I liked their shabbiness—they had only what was indispensable in the way of dress and scenery. Picture and Text 1893 Seeing her in a shabby dress, seated in the shabby parlor, one instinctively felt that shabbiness was not so utterly unbearable after all, and acknowledged that it had a brightness of its own. Vagabondia 1884 The hall had a puzzling look of equal nobility and shabbiness. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti The cause of it was sitting under the chestnut-tree, the bright sunlight, streaming through a break in the branches above, illuminating and emphasizing and exaggerating his extreme shabbiness. A Chosen Few Short Stories I shall use it in Catania to conceal the shabbiness of my other clothes.” Castellinaria and Other Sicilian Diversions He was little and thin and kind of bored-looking, with grey hair and whiskers, and his clothes were next door to downright shabbiness. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1907 to 1908 You shall see shabbiness and the spice of life hand-in-hand; and, I dare say, you will find that the figurative dinner of herbs is not utterly destitute of a flavor of piquancy. Vagabondia 1884 For a month now shabbiness had been seizing on the major, spreading over him like a mildew. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights Some perennials—the bleeding heart and the perennial poppy—have ragged foliage after blooming and require some tall bushy plant to be placed in front and around them to hide their shabbiness. Making a Garden of Perennials That week, as they inspected an indefinite number of apartments of as many degrees of shabbiness and general undesirableness, Shirley's spirits and chin fell steadily. The House of Toys The men from Munich were so smart, especially McFarlane, in white waistcoat, with a flower in his button-hole and a gold-headed cane in his hand, that we were shocked into the consciousness of our shabbiness. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties I do not think that any feeling about the shabbiness of his coat would make him hesitate about dining with an Emperor. Gossamer 1915 He had fancied himself a mark for ridicule, and the sense of shabbiness and poverty had gone far to crush his spirit. St. Winifred's, or The World of School He loathed the shabbiness of it, and the suggestion of germs, decay, down-at-the-heel poverty added to his depression. The Man from the Bitter Roots I took my abode with Shaykh Hamid, who abandoned his former dirt and shabbiness and appeared clean, well-dressed, and with neatly trimmed moustache and beard. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure But that year in Rome I had not outgrown the first ardours of work and, besides, in the old days, a cycle seemed an excuse for any and all degrees of shabbiness. Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties It may be applied to any youthful feminine person, and Lena, in spite of her carefully-groomed shabbiness, was by no means one of the herd. Jewel Weed Let your dress be as cheap as may be without shabbiness, and endeavor to be neither first nor last in a fashion. The Young Man's Guide The shabbiness of the hotel where Helen lived surprised him. The Man from the Bitter Roots Janetta always felt the closeness and the shabbiness a little when she first came home, even from school, but when she came from Helmsley Court they struck her with redoubled force. A True Friend A Novel She entered a room which in its size and general shabbiness might better have been called an attic, and found herself in the presence of three small children. How It All Came Round Lena involuntarily drew her feet closer beneath her skirts that no careless glance of that girl should fall upon their shabbiness. Jewel Weed To some minds all this might have spelled a certain sort of poetry; to the curious group assembled at the junction it spelled eccentricity and, what was worse, a fixed and immoral shabbiness of existence! The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Imposing, even in its shabbiness, stood the old house, at the end of an avenue of spired cedars. Mistress Anne He felt the shabbiness of his clothes without looking at them. The Tipster 1901, From "Wall Street Stories" For days and weeks after she had seen him, Eliza was haunted by the memory of his unkempt hair and beard, his red face and his beggarly shabbiness. Mary Wollstonecraft Even from the closet door it whispered that there was more shabbiness hidden in the depths. Jewel Weed The face in the darkness started away from the window as he looked at it, as if his own robust health and the light that dwelt about him startled its pinched shabbiness into solitude. Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray It was rather worn, even in the kindly firelight, and gave an emphasis to the shabbiness of the whole figure. Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge The hat he held in one hand was a monument of shabbiness; but his habitual stoop had the air of having been acquired by a constant courtly condescension. In Direst Peril There was no letter for me, and perhaps it was on account of my disappointment, perhaps on account of my extreme shabbiness, but I found I had quite lost heart. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance It is with a sense of pain and humiliation, as if a dishonour were being done to human nature, that we see a funeral at which everything betokens hurry, shabbiness and slovenliness. The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ A Devotional History of our Lord's Passion Although in the last stage of shabbiness, their clothes had all been once of fashionable texture and good material; but they entirely neglected the "unities" in their personal apparel. Kate Coventry An Autobiography Not that it was a great one or a splendid one; on the contrary, if it was marked by any unusual peculiarities, these were shabbiness and poverty. Life in the Red Brigade London Fire Brigade He himself was worth looking at, in spite of the shabbiness which betrayed either a bachelor habit of mind, or a lofty disdain for the trappings of life. The Making of a Soul The result was an unnecessary amount of illness, especially of tuberculosis and typhoid fever, because of insanitary buildings and grounds, and a general air of shabbiness and neglect that pervaded many communities. Society Its Origin and Development It is not the shabbiness that is unavoidable, but the slovenliness that is avoidable, that the world frowns upon. Pushing to the Front The distance and the increasing shabbiness of little garments often kept the children at home, and Christie, too, had to stay and share their tasks. Christie Redfern's Troubles I am so refreshed by my visit to the castle that I can laugh over the shabbiness which annoyed me before. The Fortunes of the Farrells Then Bridgie appeared upon the scene, and stopped short, uttering shrill cries of astonishment, as she looked at the slovenly tie, the twisted skirt, the general air of dishevelment and shabbiness. Pixie O'Shaughnessy I look back, and can hardly understand how I worried myself about useless trifles—little shabbinesses about the house, upset of arrangements, clothes and food and holiday-making. More About Peggy After a good deal of hunting he discovered her address, and presented himself, with not a little wonderment at the shabbiness of her quarters, at Dull Street. Reginald Cruden A Tale of City Life The rest came decked out in borrowed finery, or in undisguised shabbiness. The Promised Land Why, the house is an advertisement of shabbiness; the vicar’s coat is green with age, and the poor little kiddies look as if they had come out of the ark! The Fortunes of the Farrells Once he had been ashamed of the shabbiness of the bag and had planned to buy a new one, but now there was an affinity between them, a kind of warmth. Ten From Infinity He felt that he must be a weak, spoiled creature, not worthy to call himself a soldier, because little, unfamiliar shabbinesses and inconveniences disgusted him. A Soldier of the Legion I should have said that Caleb lived here, and his poor Blind Daughter somewhere else—in an enchanted home of Caleb's furnishing, where scarcity and shabbiness were not, and trouble never entered. The Cricket on the Hearth It was evening, and the shabbiness of the apartment was all the gloomier for the light of a small kerosene lamp standing on the bare deal table. The Promised Land But there’s only one Sunday, and six long days of shabbiness and patches! The Fortunes of the Farrells In the little anteroom where they stood, whose faded ceiling all but brushed their heads, and in the larger little room beyond the Nottingham lace curtains, prevailed a mild shabbiness, a respectable decay. The Coast of Chance Has the time not come at last to cease lamenting the pitiful gray shabbiness of American fiction? The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story Such cases occur daily, and the unity of shabbiness here is always diversified by some trim criminals in dark blue. Border and Bastille I acknowledged that her sense of superiority was well-founded, and retired farther into my corner, for the first time conscious of my shabbiness and lowliness. The Promised Land All the women, richer, better placed in the game than Milly, easily detecting the shabbiness of her home beneath the attempts to furbish up, envied the girl these two gifts. One Woman's Life Kendrick kept to his sober ways, continued his good management, and, in the midst of much shabbiness, continued to put aside money in the shape of negroes. Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White Her sorry appearance was merely the superficial shabbiness which comes from disuse and this the boys had neither the time nor the money to remedy; but the hull and the engine were good. Tom Slade at Temple Camp We're turning our backs now on cosy comfort, well-kept roads, tidy houses, tidy people; and we're on our way to meet beggars, shabbiness, and rags, poverty everywhere staring us in the face. My Friend the Chauffeur There would have been a certain inappropriateness in its shabbiness in the case of one who had done with the vanities of this world: but a scoured silk beside bridal blushes!—alas, poor Dulcie! Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes She did not herself in the least mind the shabbiness. Franklin Kane Burr noticed that he was attired in a tight-fitting suit of brown cloth, clean and well pressed but threadbare and redeemed from shabbiness only by the stitch in time. A Dream of Empire Or, The House of Blennerhassett She saw through glistening eyes the broken old figure, with his coat tightly buttoned on that July day to hide some shabbiness underneath. A Certain Rich Man Once, exploring around the mill, she entered a barn, and found there an old caravan that once had been gaily painted and now stood in all the shabbiness of departed glory. The Swindler and Other Stories Although looked up to by multitudes as the political leader of his time, Peck was noted at Albany for his shabbiness of dress. The Story of Cooperstown She and Miss Robinson went to a little hotel in Mayfair, a hotel supposed to atone for its costliness and shabbiness by some peculiar emanation of British comfort. Franklin Kane He was careless of appearances, and wore clothes by preference of great shabbiness. Hugh Memoirs of a Brother When he reached the Nadir of shabbiness, he touted in Piccadilly among the cabs, and picked up a few coppers in that way. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary She really is a trump; so I have only myself to think of; and Duke shall find that his shabbiness and ill-temper do him no good. A Crooked Path A Novel But Vanka is usually good-natured, patient, and quite unconscious of his shabbiness, at least in the light of a grievance or as affecting his dignity. Russian Rambles The flowers were gone, and the radiance, and the stairs that the silken ladies had once ascended showed, at closer range, certain signs of shabbiness. Contrary Mary The faint light revealed its shabbiness, the grimy rag carpet, and discolored walls. Gordon Craig Soldier of Fortune Many of these teams are of a plainness, not to say shabbiness, which would make an English owner too shamefaced to exhibit them in public. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin They are of all ages and sizes, from seventeen to seventy, and the one thing common to them all is extreme shabbiness and poverty. None Other Gods They exhibited all degrees of shabbiness, but this was only the modest plumage of the nightingale, apparently. Russian Rambles At such considerable distance all the dull shabbiness of the mining town had disappeared, and it seemed almost ideal, viewed against the natural background of brown rocks and green trees. Bob Hampton of Placer The chandeliers, the chairs, the wall-paper, all suggested the same note of one-time opulence worn to shabbiness. The Big-Town Round-Up The subdued radiance crept into the room and covered its shabbiness with a soft glory, the paper door slid open and, framed in the tender twilight, stood Zura Wingate. The House of the Misty Star A Romance of Youth and Hope and Love in Old Japan She came back to school with zeal and less than her usual sense of shabbiness. Lydia of the Pines Dushyanta has been saved by the poet from his epic shabbiness; it may be doubted whether more has been done. Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works For all his shabbiness he appeared a gentleman. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India It was dressed in its Sunday best, in attire which fluctuated from bright tints of glaring newness to the dullness of well-brushed and obtrusive shabbiness. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel M. Guizot's speech on the affairs of Switzerland shows his usual shabbiness and falsehood. At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe In fact they were ashamed of its shabbiness and lived in constant dread of some of their former acquaintances discovering their whereabouts and coming to see them. Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst He knew nothing of Mr Markham, who dispensed with the services of a valet and dressed with a shabbiness only pardonable in the extremely rich. Corporal Sam and Other Stories The shabbiness of his coat preyed upon his mind, and he fancied that the other birds jeered at him because in such old clothes he dared to be the Peacock's cousin. The Curious Book of Birds For a second-hand bookseller who respects himself must present an exterior which has something of faded splendor, of worn paint and shabbiness. In Luck at Last Lamp-light softened the shabbiness of the old room and shone pleasantly on dark wood and a great many faded books. Kenny "And so sign's on him," a fourth would add, with comic gravity, "he wasn't bred to shabbiness, as you may know by his fine behavior and his big whiskers." The Ned M'Keown Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three The body may be just an old glove—shabby, maybe; but if the hand inside the glove is alive, what real difference does the shabbiness make? The Vehement Flame In all the families of which I have spoken to you, I have seen some shabbiness or other. The Stepmother, A Drama in Five Acts She chose again the Royal Red, but not the table behind the pillar from which she had peered, glad of its shelter for her shabbiness, a year ago. Married Life The True Romance There was once a philanthropist who dressed with shameful shabbiness and carried pearls in his pocket. The Ragged Edge Let the shabbiness increase; let the debts pile up; let the boarders complain and the teachers gossip—Zora was coming. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel He often makes allusions to the shabbiness or cheapness of her clothing and considers it “a shame that such a pretty girl cannot dress better.” A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil But she had forgotten the rest of the evening, her shabbiness, every care that troubled her normal days. Nocturne The shabbiness of his dress once led to an amusing adventure, which he enjoyed very much. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made Our eyes are beguiled into accepting age for youth, shabbiness for finery, tinsel for splendour. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character But his shabbiness now surpassed anything Johnny had known, because Bland had evidently made pitiful attempts to hide it. The Thunder Bird Certainly the poor captain looked miserable enough, without any pretense of it; for, besides his thin and unhealthy aspect, his attire was in the lowest depth of genteel shabbiness. A Noble Life Foster thought everything showed signs of fastidious taste, but there was something austere about it that harmonized with the dignified shabbiness of the house. Carmen's Messenger Even a shabby little room, if dustlessly clean and filled with flowers, loses all effect of shabbiness and is "inviting" instead. Etiquette The Papal city makes her influence felt for shabbiness and uncleanliness wherever she can, and her management seems to prevail on this railway. Italian Journeys He had had twenty years of it—twenty years of garrets and roof-chambers and dingy flats and shabby lodgings, and he was tired of dinginess and shabbiness. Widdershins Everywhere throughout the State the results of this way of life was to be seen—in the general poverty of the people, and in the shabbiness of all their surroundings. Grappling with the Monster The Curse and the Cure of Strong Drink There stood Ascott Leaf, looking bright and handsome, in spite of his shabbiness, and quite at his ease—which small peculiarity was never likely to be knocked out of him under the most depressing circumstances. Mistress and Maid The shabbiness of her father's little cottage was smothered with flowers and branches cut in a neighboring wood. Etiquette The interior has a bel colpo d'occhio, which is what many Italians chiefly value in morals, manners, and architecture; but after this comes great shabbiness of detail. Italian Journeys In all its shabbiness it stands between the other big dazzling shops as a reminding monument. Tales of the Five Towns They had a hypocritical air, a grasping after appearances that I believe always accompanies deceit and imposition—a sleek shabbiness that I detest. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 His wares, I fear, had been selected from the refuse of the market, and he and his barrow were in a state of dilapidated shabbiness that matched his stock in trade. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 And now there was nothing before either of them but the same shabbiness and penury as before. Missing Yes, sir; but you have dressed me in such a way that I attract attention in the street for my shabbiness. Joe's Luck Always Wide Awake This young gentleman, who always wore long curling locks, an eye-glass and a romantic cloak which covered a multitude of shabbinesses, fully allayed Raphael's fears as to the difficulties of editorship. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People Its pale enamelled shabbiness and the tawdry ugliness of nearly every object in it had never repelled and saddened him as they did then. The Pretty Lady He looked the leader, though his clothes were inclined to shabbiness and he sat slouched forward in his chair. Starr, of the Desert Both Cuningham and Watson were shabbily dressed; but it was an artistic and metropolitan shabbiness. Fenwick's Career "You see," added Robert, "all the shabbiness is not on our side." Iola Leroy Shadows Uplifted The shabbiness of the chancel in particular is enhanced by a casement which does duty for an E. window. Somerset She had seen her growing a little thinner and more tense everyday; had seen her putting on spectacles, and fighting anaemia with tonics, and yielding unresistingly to shabbiness. The Precipice I have not noticed any shabbiness of late in the garb of those with whom I am acquainted. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, May 14, 1919 The shabby gray and amber drawing-room was not all shabbiness and not all gray and amber now. The Three Sisters Thrown about in a sort of joyous disorder, Gertrude Sinclair's finery quite lit up the shabbiness. The Blood Red Dawn The shabbiness of my room upstairs was not a matter for every stranger. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Kate had a way of avoiding shabbiness, but of late her interest in decoration had been anything but keen. The Precipice He didn't mind how he looked to other people, because the nursery magic had made him Real, and when you are Real shabbiness doesn't matter. The Velveteen Rabbit He found his friend at home, writing, with his desk pushed against the open window, and the dust and shabbiness of his room dismally obvious in the hot July sunshine. Fenton's Quest Something which was not exactly shabbiness, but a lack of lustre, of finish, singled him among the group of men; looking closer, one saw that his black suit belonged to a fashion some years old. The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories Their daily lives were surrounded by much shabbiness and many meannesses. On Compromise He had taken off his white apron of waiter, and was disreputable in all the shabbiness of his attire as cook. Balcony Stories She assured Hahn that its shabbiness did not show from the front. Cheerful—By Request Thus I remember one evening during the novel-writing period when nobody would pay a farthing for a stroke of my pen, walking along Sloane Street in that blessed shield of literary shabbiness, evening dress. The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage Many a pair of just such slippers she had danced to the verge of shabbiness. The Visioning Shabby,—let me here pause to say that in Virginia shabbiness is the grand universal law, and neatness the spasmodic exception, attained in rare spots, an aeon beyond their Old Dominion age. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 For, after all, what is the root cause of all this dirt and ignorance and shabbiness and disease? Essays in Rebellion At first glimpse, alighting before the steps of the restored Mission church, Angela compared it unfavourably in her mind with the lovely shabbiness of San Gabriel. The Port of Adventure It would never do, you know, for me to be plunging myself into poverty and shabbiness and love in one room up three pair of stairs, and all that sort of thing.' Martin Chuzzlewit The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see. Little Dorrit Is it only in the matter of clothes that fashion descends here in London—and consequently in England—and thence shabbiness arises? The Uncommercial Traveller The possessor had done his best to spoil it, and to destroy the handsome Dutch house and fountains and aqueducts; but Nature was too much for him, and the place lovely in neglect and shabbiness. Letters from the Cape But when his boyish figure bobbed away, its shabbiness and cheerful patience smote the tears out of her eyes. Our Mutual Friend There is something imposing in this, and it is an excellent apology for shabbiness into the bargain. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people It seemed as though the prison's poverty, and shabbiness, and dirt, were growing in the sultry atmosphere. Little Dorrit In detail, one would say it can rarely fail to be a disappointing piece of shabbiness, to a stranger from any of those places. The Uncommercial Traveller His shabbiness did not trouble him; there was none of his friends round about to sneer him. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow And probably at no other point is the sense of shabbiness so keenly felt as it is if we fall short of the standard set by social usage in this matter of dress. Theory of the Leisure Class The Captain himself was in the last extremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, old brown great-coat with no other coat below it. David Copperfield The room presented itself as ample and interesting in detail and shabby with a quite commendable shabbiness. Tono Bungay The entrance hall had lost its hopeless shabbiness. The Shuttle It grew in the first place out of shabbiness and mischief, but it did grow; and if people keep on giving him a bad name the time will come when he'll live up to it. The Conquest of Canaan It suffered acutely as these Jacks went climbing up their bean-stalk wealth to heights of magnificence from which the establishments and equipages of the Fanning-Smiths must seem poor to shabbiness. The Cost She did not seem surprised at the incongruity of his shabbiness producing money. The Dawn of a To-morrow The hotel was continually losing patronage because of its shabbiness and she thought of herself as also shabby. Winesburg, Ohio; a group of tales of Ohio small town life Suddenly he stood in an unknown world, and it was Loristan who made it so because its poverty and shabbiness had no power to touch him. The Lost Prince There was none of the occasional shabbiness or dowdiness of Michigan Avenue. Fanny Herself His coat and large, low-crowned hat, though worn almost to shabbiness, conveyed an indefinable sense of some theological standard, or pretence to such a standard. The Market-Place They went into the quaint, old-fashioned parlor, which had already been transformed by Susan's care, so that much of its shabbiness was hidden. Beauty and the Beast, and Tales of Home When in luck he was able to make a tidy sum; but the shabbiness of his clothes at last frightened the sight-seers, and he could not find people adventurous enough to trust themselves to him. Moon and Sixpence I was sorry to do this, for personally I liked it better as it was, with its weeds and its wild, rough tangle, its sweet, characteristic Venetian shabbiness. The Aspern Papers Their gray uniforms were worn beyond the point of shabbiness. The Awakening and Selected Short Stories They were plainly but not ill clad, though the thick hoar of dust which had accumulated on their shoes and garments from an obviously long journey lent a disadvantageous shabbiness to their appearance just now. The Mayor of Casterbridge Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter. Northanger Abbey She liked his graying hair and steady eyes, and insisted on considering his shabbiness a pose. K And, because of its shabbiness, he frowned and hastened his steps, and because of the look he had read in her eyes, he paused again, yet followed doggedly nevertheless. The Amateur Gentleman But there's the wisdom of twenty years' shabbiness in me. The Highwayman The little shabby creature had in a moment dropped her shabbiness. The Coryston Family A Novel The dignity and pride of the shabby old figure redeemed its shabbiness—the fervor of the pounded notes redeemed the tune. Four Girls and a Compact Opposite this is another institution, called the Cork Library, where there are plenty of books and plenty of kindness to the stranger; but the shabbiness and faded splendor of the place are quite painful…. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 2 Great Britain and Ireland, Part 2 It looks a little ashamed of its shabbiness when you come upon it suddenly hiding behind its pushing neighbors. The Under Dog The saloons at Forêtdechêne were rich in monster sheets of looking-glass; and in wandering discontentedly about the room Diana Paget saw herself reflected many times in all her shabbiness. Birds of Prey His clothes were very shabby, with that peculiar shiny shabbiness which makes a man look as if he had been oiled all over, and then rubbed into a high state of polish. Henry Dunbar A Novel It had, in its shabbiness, that curious effect of cosiness and comfort which these shabby old rooms somehow possess, and luxurious rooms somehow lack. The Mystery of Murray Davenport A Story of New York at the Present Day Ready to do anything, he thought the shabbiness of his clothes would be a greater bar to indoor than to outdoor work, and applied therefore at every farm they came to. A Rough Shaking How quickly the general foulness was purified, the general raggedness repaired, the general shabbiness made "good as new"! The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok One does not feel the sting of one's shabbiness here," thought Miss Paget: "the trees are all dressed alike. Birds of Prey The shabbiness of the legislature must answer for it, if criminals remain at large. Henry Dunbar A Novel She noticed worn places in the carpet, and a certain shabbiness from constant use in everything, which had not been visible at night, and now affected her in an inexpressibly dreary way. The Heavenly Twins The shabbiness of the beggarly creature was a consolation to her. A Rough Shaking In spite of all her shabbiness the girl was pretty and fresh. L'Assommoir He practised before the looking glass making stylish bows, and every morning looked at his Sunday suit, and tried to hide the shabbiness of his coat by brushing some black color over it. Dame Care A constantly declining grade of shabbiness was the result of this, as the driver of the horses wore a coat and hat of the same style as his master, only less clean and new. Manners and Social Usages The directors can't understand such freedom, such language, such shabbiness, such Bohemianism. Under the Skylights If you'll tell me which dress you wish to wear—' 'There's only one in the wardrobe,' Henrietta said serenely, for suddenly her shabbiness and poverty mattered no longer. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing I found them in very dirty lodgings in Westminster, where the wretch has the shabbiness to keep not only his wife, but his old mother, and a little brother, whom he puts to school. The Virginians For then he is another personage altogether, and adjusts his character to the shabbiness of his integuments. Redburn. His First Voyage Suddenly, as he was speaking, he noticed his companion more closely, the shabbiness of the little black hat and jacket, the new lines round the eyes and mouth. The History of David Grieve It was an undeniable fact that the porters at the office looked down on him on account of his shabbiness. Married Her eager, frightened eyes beheld a man of middle height, dignified of mien and carriage, dressed with extreme simplicity, yet without the shabbiness in which Frey Miguel had first discovered him. The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series When she undressed Idella for bed she noticed again the shabbiness of her poor little clothes. Annie Kilburn : a Novel A sacristan should be aged and mouldy, clothed in black of a decent shabbiness. Castilian Days At Burgos we were almost alarmed by the shabbiness of the omnibus for the hotel we had chosen through a consensus of praise in the guide-books, and thought we must have got the wrong one. Familiar Spanish Travels He walked about the place, and into the barn, taking in the forlornness and shabbiness; and then he went up into the room over the shed, where he used to study and write. The Minister's Charge The drops quickly evaporated, and the little round black spots they left were soon dusted over; but the spots showed, by contrast, the cheapness and shabbiness of the cloth with which the coffin was covered. While the Billy Boils There is always a shabbiness about the wharves of seaports; but I must own that as soon as you get a reasonable distance from them in Boston, they turn wholly beautiful. Suburban Sketches Her course lay between the shabbiness of Southwark and the grandeur of the Westminster shore, which is probably the noblest water-front in the world. London Films Nothing would quiet him but the immediate commencement of the process of dressing, the result of which was, as I have said, even pathetic, from its intermixture of shabbiness and finery. Malcolm All the shabbiness of the theatre was perfectly apparent to us; we saw the grossness of the painting and the unreality of the properties. Venetian Life The shabbiness of her own made her blush. We Can't Have Everything In fact, a certain look of age and shabbiness was typical of the house. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" The side street was her destiny; the side street and shabbiness. Hilda Lessways Tronchet, M. Tuileries, shabbiness of the, and removal of the court to the. The Life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France The extreme neatness of his clothes contrasted with the prevailing shabbiness of the students and the assistant lecturers who followed him. Hyacinth But that is a piece of benevolent shabbiness which must come to grief some day. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston I know the shabbiness of using this opportunity; but it's the last I'll get. The Buccaneer Farmer Published in England under the Title "Askew's Victory" His presence had a disastrous effect on the chill, unfrequented drawing-room, reducing it instantly to a condition of paltry shabbiness. Hilda Lessways Then you do think it's because of my shabbiness and where I live that—that has made them—these girls so—so different; but why should they—all at once? A Flock of Girls and Boys For the first time she was struck by its shabbiness; she had never given a thought to it before. At Love's Cost You taught me deceit and made me ashamed for my shabbiness. Lister's Great Adventure The old Spaniard slowly unfolded his cloak, betraying the shabbiness of its crimson plush lining. Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories And, by the side of George Cannon on the platform, she was aware of her shabbiness and of her girlish fragility. Hilda Lessways Our very first knowledge of Montauto was rich and varied, with the relief from pretentiousness which all ancient things enjoy, and with the appealing sweetness of time-worn shabbiness. Memories of Hawthorne It certainly looked very snug, with the carpet, whose shabbiness was not noticeable in the dim light, and the gaily striped curtains, which had been tacked up and fastened back from the windows. The Happy Adventurers On the whole, he did not think he was going to be shabby, but perhaps shabbiness was justified. Lister's Great Adventure Maggie ran on before to see that all was right in the dreary parlor, where the fire, dulled by the frosty sunshine, seemed part of the general shabbiness. The Mill on the Floss She knew no other life than the herrings, the makeshifts, and the general shabbiness of the rectory. This Freedom There is shabbiness and shabbiness, the fond critic of such things will tell you; and that of the ancient capital of Savoy lacks style. Italian Hours She was shabby, to be sure, but it was no longer a ridiculous shabbiness. Little Miss By-The-Day He had deliberately moved out all his lines to an easy comfort, throwing out a line of pickets against any appearance of social shabbiness. A Fascinating Traitor An Anglo-Indian Story "But won't that mar the charming effect of my consistent shabbiness?" said Maggie, seating herself submissively, while Lucy knelt again and unfastened the contemptible butterfly. The Mill on the Floss Their festal attire bore the marks of a once careless luxury, but now shabbiness tried to hide itself under the bravery of tinsel, where once had been pure gold. Little Sister Snow Siena was long ago mellowed to the pictorial tone; the operation of time is now to deposit shabbiness upon shabbiness. Italian Hours These fine and formal costumes are a rather conspicuous contrast to the poverty and shabbiness of the surroundings . Following the Equator, Part 4 He can let his hotel run down to the last degree of shabbiness and yet have it full of people all the time. A Tramp Abroad — Volume 07 What have you to do with Holloway, and shabbiness, and starving people? Winding Paths But to Chilcote the shabbiness was restful, the subdued atmosphere a satisfaction. The Masquerader They speak of better days and of a fabulous time when Italy was either not shabby or could at least "carry off" her shabbiness. Italian Hours They did not worry a great deal over their shabbiness; but it was rather trying to see Mary Vance coming out in such style and putting on such airs about it, too. Rainbow Valley The night concealed his shabbiness; but it failed to hide the medals on his breast, one bronze, one silver, that told of campaigns already a generation gone. Told in the East And all round was gloom, and murk, and shabbiness, and hard, pitiless facts. Winding Paths His occasional shabbiness in money matters, his jealousies, his envies, all his petty faults, which are despicable on account of their pettiness. A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Lately, during the misty autumn nights, the moon has shone on them faintly and refined their shabbiness away into something ineffably strange and spectral. Italian Hours Supper being over and done, Charmian must needs take my coat, despite my protests, and fall to work upon its threadbare shabbiness, mending a great rent in the sleeve. The Broad Highway "My dear Lance, will you never understand, that as furze and thistles are to a donkey, so are shabbiness and bother to me-—a native element?" The Long Vacation Animation cruelly displayed her appalling commonness and physical shabbiness. The Old Wives' Tale There was an atmosphere of ease and comfort about her which contrasted agreeably with the shabbiness of Mrs. Flint's boarding-house, and the bare simplicity of the old home. Work: a Story of Experience But it has an idle abundance and wantonness, a romantic shabbiness and dishevelment. Italian Hours Indeed, their very shabbiness so enhanced the brilliancy of Todd's handiwork that the most casual passers-by were convinced at a glance that gentlefolk lived within. Kennedy Square She was here, at home again, in the old atmosphere of shabbiness and poverty; nothing was changed, except that now her youth was gone, and her heart broken, and her life wrecked beyond all repairing. Saturday's Child She examined the suit, which was still damp, and its woeful shabbiness pained her. The Old Wives' Tale Vyse thanked him, and appeared, punctually at eight, in all the shabbiness of his daily wear. Tales of Men and Ghosts It is not only the British officer, sahib, who borrows money at high interest lest his shabbiness shame the regiment. Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders They creaked into the barnlike shabbiness of the edifice; the little red light twinkled silently before the altar. Martie, the Unconquered The shabbiness and disorder and a sort of material sordidness were more marked than ever, but Susan was keenly conscious of some subtle, touching charm, unnoticed heretofore, that seemed to flavor the old environment to-night. Saturday's Child Then she looked at her cloak, the condition of which was now little removed from shabbiness. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl The thin cheeks, heavy-lidded and bloodshot eyes, ill-coloured lips, made a picture anything but agreeable to look upon; and quite in keeping with it was the shabbiness of his garb. Will Warburton It was some months since he had seen Cecil Morphew, who looked in indifferent health, and in his dress came near to shabbiness. The Whirlpool I was in a regular passion with only looking at that shabbiness. Wives and Daughters De Montespan was not in the least ruffled at the tidings; she rather enjoyed the idea of setting off her own splendor against the shabbiness of her rival. Prince Eugene and His Times Then they went into the inner room, and Anna sat down on the chair Cedric had occupied, and looked round her with undisguised amazement: the shabbiness and ugliness of the surroundings almost shocked her. Herb of Grace I want firewood, and a warm overcoat, because my wife has not brought my old one on account of its shabbiness. Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 1 Everything was of an extreme shabbiness: the stuffing was showing through holes in the sofa, the strips of carpet were worn threadbare. Maurice Guest Everything was scrupulously neat, and the poor furniture was arranged with taste—but no dexterity of management could disguise the squalid shabbiness of the sitting-room into which I was shown. Jezebel's Daughter Not only the service was superb, but Marietta herself was attired in a costume which shamed the shabbiness of her high- born mistress. Prince Eugene and His Times But then again there were those who foresaw that the shabbiness would be made to rest anywhere rather than on the shoulders of Sir Timothy. The Duke's Children He had had enough of that and its rotten carelessness and shabbiness. The Captives He flung the harness upon his old unkempt horse, and tackled him to the mud-encrusted buggy, for whose shabbiness he had never cared before. Dr. Breen's Practice But now all shabbiness had disappeared and many-gabled "cottages" proudly stood where the shanties of the Poverty Laners once humbly leaned. The Portygee Incredible shabbiness and niggardly pinching reigned over the fields and acres which, in spite of the rude and careless husbandry of the times, were so kind and bountiful. News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance Most of the furniture had been good of its kind at one time, but it was now all reduced to a drab level of shabbiness. The Hermit of Far End She had a crimson bow at her throat and one on the newly braided hair, her cuffs were clean, and a white apron hid the shabbiness of the old dress. Jack and Jill The strong sunlight showed the fine wrinkles on his brown face and the shabbiness of his short, rough beard. Villa Rubein, and other stories Once, and not so many years before, the Bay Road was contemptuously referred to as "Poverty Lane" and dwellers along its winding, weed-grown track vied with one another in shiftless shabbiness. The Portygee He was so badly dressed that even a man accustomed to shabbiness would have been ashamed to be seen in the street in such rags. Crime and Punishment He was annoyed at a certain green coat which his new clerk brought with him, and he watched its increasing shabbiness with a sort of childish pleasure. A Dark Night's Work Here he was shown into a small room, richly furnished after a sombrely ornate fashion, the drapery and coverings much faded, worn even to shabbiness. Donal Grant, by George MacDonald He cared as little that he looked at moments all his impudence as that he looked all his shabbiness, all his cleverness, all his history. Some Short Stories [by Henry James] For the first time he appreciated the actual shabbiness of her clothes. Havoc His very bulk emphasized the shabbiness of the stained and almost buttonless Prince Albert coat he wore, the dinginess of the little room he seemed to dwarf. Ridgway of Montana (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) The red-faced houses - all of brick - along the quay have a mixture of brightness and shabbiness, as well as the fashion of the open loggia in the top- story. A Little Tour in France "Persecution Alley," the lodging house, the very chairs and tables seemed to obtrude their shabbiness upon her. We Two, a novel The shabbiness of this place actually beats Ireland, and that is a strong word. From Cornhill to Grand Cairo The visitor was his cousin, James, and he radiated such an air of prosperity that the plain little bedroom shrank to shabbiness. The Vision Splendid He saw his mother realize miracles of industry to conceal the shabbiness of her toilets, and resort to the most skillful diplomacy when she wished to purchase a dress for Gilberte. Other People's Money No doubt the visitors wondered at his comparative shabbiness, and asked themselves how he ventured to make a call without the regulation chimney-pot hat. New Grub Street At these parties, which were indeed set down in the ledger to the credit of the house, they wore dresses the shabbiness of which made them blush. At the Sign of the Cat & Racket For the first time then she saw his clothes, his shabbiness and his pallor, and perhaps she guessed the truth. The Breaking Point The gods were not offended by manslaughter openly done, but were angry with treachery, cowardice, meanness, theft, perjury, and every kind of shabbiness. Essays in Little One day there came into his shop a man attired with extreme shabbiness. Frank's Campaign, or, Farm and Camp The person in attendance on these works of art was in all respects, shabbiness excepted, unlike the former personage. Somebody's Luggage But no dinginess of travel or shabbiness of attire could tarnish the splendor that radiated from his youth and strength. The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains Evidently she admired most the poet in him; and as this, on the whole, agreed with his own opinion, he decided to err, if anything, on the side of shabbiness. Night and Day In de Sigognac's eyes they appeared radiant, in spite of the shabbiness of their finery, which was far more apparent now than on the preceding evening. Captain Fracasse You are both embarrassed, but it is YOU who feel ashamed—you are almost afraid to look at him lest he'll think you are looking at his shabbiness. On the Track As always he ignored the next two blocks, decayed blocks not yet reclaimed from the grime and shabbiness of the Zenith of 1885. Babbitt And the sunshine of the warm April afternoon, heightened it may be by her determined unmercenary pose, betrayed too the faintest hint of shabbiness in her dress. The Research Magnificent At that time our attire, though far from elegant, bore some marks of civilization, and offered a very favorable contrast to the inimitable shabbiness of our appearance on the return journey. The Oregon Trail: sketches of prairie and Rocky-Mountain life |
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