| 单词 | shabby-genteel |
| 例句 | But this part of the city is no longer flat, dowdy, shabby-genteel. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Such a sweet little man” remarks a guest at a shabby-genteel Dublin hotel, referring to a waiter named Albert Nobbs. | 'Albert Nobbs': ?Albert Nobbs? ? Movie Review 2011-12-20T16:46:28Z Smith writes about yardbird intellects, refugees from good taste and urban ease; her characters are shabby-genteel with the gentility knob turned down pretty low. Ali Smith’s ‘Summer’ Ends a Funny, Political, Very Up-to-Date Quartet 2020-08-17T04:00:00Z “Any time I’m at a book party or reading, and soccer comes up in conversation, I find myself surrounded by young men in shabby-genteel, loosely fitting tweed jackets gushing over the Gunners,” Ms. Schaap said. Soccer, Particularly England’s Premier League, Growing in Popularity in New York Creative Circles 2014-04-16T22:52:42Z He remembers, as a boy, attending a yearly fete held by some local Protestants, with their shabby-genteel tweeds and cut-glass accents. With His New Mystery Novel, John Banville Kills Off a Pen Name 2020-10-01T04:00:00Z Below the carved stone eagles decorating the slate roof, the shabby-genteel style thrives on a grand scale. T Magazine: J.P. Donleavy is Still Standing 2014-03-07T20:19:12Z Many say they want a new hotel, but that the proposed resort is too big and fancy for Harpers Ferry, whose shabby-genteel charm has changed little in the last 60 years. Death threats and illegal voting: The war over a luxury resort in Harpers Ferry 2020-02-16T05:00:00Z A tall, red-nosed shabby-genteel man in a threadbare black coat enters the room and, pointing to each item of furniture, mutters: "Mine". Why Charles Dickens endures 2013-12-13T16:57:48Z Starvation, shabby-genteel rags, beatings, and full-flavored curses were her daily portion. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z I do not believe the poor put into them, but the reduced rich, the shabby-genteel. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z This man was dressed in a seedy, shabby-genteel style, and soon became intimate with our lure. The City in the Clouds 2011-08-31T02:01:31.807Z The chill in her eyes doesn’t prevent the frustrated men on a shabby-genteel estate from falling foolishly, hopelessly in love with her Yelena, the lethally bored wife of a boorish academic. Cate Blanchett Seduces in Furious D.C. ’Vanya’: Jeremy Gerard 2011-08-11T02:23:03Z The shabby-genteel parlour of the inn is occupied by two men playing at cards—a young and a middle-aged man. The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Again, he had had his own experience of shabby-genteel life, and of the struggle which he had himself seen a happy and a buoyant temperament maintaining against a sea of trouble. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z By this I do not mean that they are coarse, but ‘shabby-genteel,’ as it is termed. Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats 2011-04-02T02:00:11.477Z The place was decent and quiet, run by a widow and her daughter, the inmates of a shabby-genteel class—rather an odd place for a man of Ford's proclivities to house himself. The Black Eagle Mystery 2011-03-07T03:00:12.497Z I pass over some years, in which I experienced all the trials of a shabby-genteel life at a large school, where I was placed by the kindness of a distant friend. Harper's New Monthly Magazine No. XVI.?September, 1851?Vol. III. 2011-02-15T03:00:16.383Z Those who patronised it were of the shabby-genteel order. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z The principal speaker was a young man about six-and-twenty, of a sort of shabby-genteel air and appearance, whom I soon discovered to be the attorney of the neighborhood. The Chainbearer Or, The Littlepage Manuscripts 2011-01-13T03:01:05.707Z At eleven o'clock he was clothed as a beggar—at twelve he was shabby-genteel. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 10 Up rose a tall, gaunt, shabby-genteel, pale-looking figure, bowed to the company, and began, in a cracked voice, affectedly to chant some doggerel verses against the Ministers of State. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 8 And, on the other hand, you oughtn't to buy such rubbishy, shabby-genteel things as you do. Small Souls It was a shabby-genteel boarding-house, in a shabby-genteel street, close upon East Broadway. Norine's Revenge; Sir Noel's Heir The shabby-genteel man, ex-Republican, with steel-rimmed spectacles, who now looked for all the world like a bookkeeper out of a job, had this: H. R. And now to relinquish these, and be the actor, in the garish light of the noonday, and a shabby-genteel coat and hat! A Day's Ride A Life's Romance He was vaguely conscious only of a scene suggesting with cruel cleverness the interior of a shabby-genteel New York flat and of a few figures peopling it, all dominated by a heavy-limbed, harsh-voiced termagant. The Destroying Angel The cars hummed smoothly through the broad streets, past the shabby-genteel apartment neighborhood. Instant of Decision The shabby-genteel woman, hovering behind the policeman, was following the scene with hawklike eyes, and Clancy kept her, too, under close observation. The Bartlett Mystery Look at all those shabby-genteel rows of houses, each exactly like the next, each with its awful bow window, and all needing a new coat of paint. Ancestors A Novel It was dingy and shabby-genteel, like the exterior; a quarter of a century might have elapsed since the faded paper had been put up, or a stroke of painting executed, in that dispiriting apartment. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement They had stopped short before a long row of shabby-genteel houses in the outskirts of Kensington. Berenice Indeed, he had a shabby-genteel look, as though he were a bit down on his luck.” Hushed Up! A Mystery of London In the course of it, I gathered that my shabby-genteel friend was going to Revel to attend a ’orse-race. The Land of Thor The block through which the cavalcade was passing was lined with shabby-genteel brownstone houses, with high stoops and haughty dark doors, and dressmakers' placards or doctors' cards in the windows. The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Things are painted literally as they are, and, whatever the picture, whether of every-day vulgar, shabby-genteel, or downright low, with neither the condescending air which is affectation, nor the too familiar one which is slang. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Mr O’Donaghan entered, a tall, thick-whiskered personage, in a shabby-genteel dress, evidently not made for him, a pair of white cotton gloves, and a small stick. Japhet in Search of a Father He turned at last into a narrow, quiet street, and going up to the door of a shabby-genteel house, applied the knocker with considerable vigour. Fighting the Flames Suddenly the door of Brett's bedroom opened, and a decrepit elderly man appeared, a shabby-genteel individual, disfigured by drink and crumpled up by rheumatism. The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective I talked with him, and there joined us a fat, little, elderly, spectacled, shabby-genteel, but well-to-do-looking sort of a punchy, small tradesman. The Gypsies Will he now refuse to earn the necessary money to enjoy them, and insist on living, in shabby-genteel ignorance and idleness, exclusively on the pocket-money of the visitors to whom his uncle introduces him? Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 I then walked to the appointed rendezvous, and was soon joined by Tim, who had discarded his sailor’s disguise, and was in what is called a shabby-genteel sort of dress. Japhet in Search of a Father As poor Sammy knew nothing about acting, it was decided that he should appear in his own garments, which, being shabby-genteel, were pretty well suited for a great Italian singer in low society. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure “Have you ever been in Portsmouth before?” asked the shabby-genteel man, on reaching a part of the town which was more open and less crowded. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan The furnishings of the hall had a shabby-genteel look, till we reached the basement stairs, when every thing became bare, and dark, and dirty. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. There are relatively a large proportion of shabby-genteel equipages at Paris. Recollections of Europe The first used generally to be a pretty old coat that had lived to moralise over the mutability of human affairs—thread-bare—napless—and what ignorant people might have called shabby-genteel. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 While he sat there spell-bound, a shabby-genteel man entered and sat down beside him. Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure The speaker was an elderly man of shabby-genteel appearance and polite address. Blue Lights Hot Work in the Soudan Then they had been shabby-genteel boarding-houses like the one a block or two away where she herself now lived. One Woman's Life At the window of a shabby-genteel London lodging-house a young woman sat, this dreary April evening, looking out at the cheering prospect of dripping roofs and muddy pavement. Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel The shabby-genteel house in Boston was rented by the month, all furnished, and the good lady promptly gave her notice and packed her trunks for departure. The Tangled Threads The shabby-genteel world and the tradesman's life, unless in exceptional cases of great wealth, were different things a hundred and fifty years ago from what they are now. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes I shall sink into a dowdy, frowsy, shabby-genteel old maid for the rest of my life! The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Naturally, the guests are embarrassed, but they all offer to allow themselves to be searched, with the exception of the shabby-genteel old gentleman. Writing the Photoplay Hope gave him a debonair mien that belied his shabby-genteel apparel. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe Though it may look well at first it soon shows its quality of shabby-genteel. The Complete Home By this I do not mean that they are coarse, but 'shabby-genteel,' as it is termed. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals Good-by to our miserable shifts and shabby-genteel lodgings and turned dresses. Winter Evening Tales The remainder of the city, was for the vulgar—craftsmen, petty shopkeepers, salaried men, and the shabby-genteel. Sevenoaks William Truedale lived on a shabby-genteel side street of a neighbourhood that had started out to be fashionable but had been defeated in its ambitions. The Man Thou Gavest By this I do not mean that they are coarse, but "shabby-genteel," as it is termed. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 With His Letters and Journals This person is perhaps a trifle shabby-genteel in attire, but genially pompous and semi-military in bearing. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, November 15, 1890 Reaching the door of the first on her list, she rang and was shown into a small drawing-room, shabby-genteel in its furniture and ornaments. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859 It is a deceitful liquid that black and blue reviver; we have watched its effects on many a shabby-genteel man. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people The public, represented by a boy with a comforter, and a shabby-genteel man secretly eating crumbs out of his coat pockets, was warming itself at a stove in the centre of the Court. David Copperfield He finished dressing, putting on his discriminatingly chosen shabby-genteel clothes with a care for the effect he intended them to produce. The Dawn of a To-morrow French peasants will not set about the day's labour in smart or shabby-genteel clothes. The Roof of France The baker was standing behind his counter, disputing the items of a bill with a shabby-genteel young woman. Lady Audley's Secret At its expiration the ‘reviver’ had entirely vanished, and the shabby-genteel man never afterwards attempted to effect any improvement in his outward appearance. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people In a few minutes two gentlemen walked in; the one dressed in a handsome dressing-gown and morocco slippers, the other in a shabby-genteel black. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3 Tom saw a shabby-genteel sort of person, whose back was towards him, directing a letter. Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life A somewhat shabby-genteel, youngish man appeared at the head of the stairs; he was wearing a silk hat and a too ample frock-coat. Hilda Lessways At the back of the Inn, in the shabby-genteel square called Lincoln's Inn Fields, Mr. Tulkinghorn was murdered in his rusty apartment. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 It would be difficult to name any particular part of town as the principal resort of shabby-genteel men. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Nothing cramped, nothing showy, nothing dim, grim, nor shabby-genteel enters into its proportions. Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston So many had white faces, dark-circled eyes, shabby-genteel clothing, and just a commonplace fairness, that in the throng it was difficult to discover distinguishing attributes. Winding Paths He has a safe, dignified, responsible, independent position based wholly on the public health; whereas the private practitioner has a precarious, shabby-genteel, irresponsible, servile position, based wholly on the prevalence of illness. The Doctor's Dilemma: Preface on Doctors The equipages were generally much more gorgeous than at a later period, when democracy invaded the parks, and introduced what may be termed a "brummagem society," with shabby-genteel carriages and servants. Reminiscences of Captain Gronow Change, by any chance, without seeing some shabby-genteel men, and we have often wondered what earthly business they can have there. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people By your face, when a man passed the window—a shabby-genteel fellow; he was employed by some gentleman, no doubt. Foul Play Then, after years of genteel poverty, the Duchess had consented to Clara giving lessons on the piano—that last refuge of the shabby-genteel. Jonah There were some preparations for breakfast, but no one was in the room but a little girl, about seven years old, dressed in shabby-genteel mourning. The Heir of Redclyffe He had sat by, and let this shabby-genteel doctor, years older than the girl, walk away with her. The Breaking Point A shabby-genteel man may have no occupation, or he may be a corn agent, or a coal agent, or a wine merchant, or a collector of debts, or a broker’s assistant, or a broken-down attorney. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people But the shabby-genteel man was nowhere in sight. Foul Play He joined the ranks of the shabby-genteel to live somehow by bits of honest work, mixed with a great deal of dishonest work. London's Underworld I was stopping at a shabby-genteel boarding-house in Melbourne once, and one very cold winter, too; and there was a rather good-looking woman there, looking for a husband. On the Track We knew nothing about the matter; he grew more and more shabby-genteel every day. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Such objects, with few exceptions, are shabby-genteel people. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people It is worthy of remark, too, that only men are shabby-genteel; a woman is always either dirty and slovenly in the extreme, or neat and respectable, however poverty-stricken in appearance. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Look again—here is a shabby-genteel man who lives by his wits. London's Underworld We were once haunted by a shabby-genteel man; he was bodily present to our senses all day, and he was in our mind’s eye all night. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people |
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