It was small, cheap, and shabby, but she had still called it home for the last few years. |
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The shabby redbrick facades of Het Straatje, or the little street, drowse like its denizens in the midsummer heat. |
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Now they can choose from softer, shabby chic styles to sophisticated uses of toile, cashmere, leather and shearling. |
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Across from the courtyard were several shabby stone buildings reflecting the moonlight with their worn-out walls. |
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Not too shabby, but at the turn is usually the point where I would run into trouble. |
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He was a quiet, mildly alcoholic man in shabby tweeds and a clerical collar. |
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He wore a moth-eaten old fur cap and a shabby overcoat that was stretched tightly across his paunchy belly. |
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By dismantling shabby sheds and old lanes, the residents can move to much better houses. |
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Among the sculpture entries was a charmingly shabby conglomeration of 10 pawnshop diamond rings. |
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It was the same for several human villagers who exited shabby tents, rubbing sleep from their eyes. |
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The first walk has a few small hills, the second walk is largely flat, but on a shabby wintery day was a bit dull and uninspiring. |
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It was a shabby, straggly, unkempt little regiment, their faces chapped, their noses running in the cold. |
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His colleagues snicker at the twilight samurai as he leaves, at his shabby dress and general unkemptness as well as his reason for leaving. |
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They were clearly homeless, wearing shabby clothes and unable to talk properly through their unkept teeth. |
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We lived in a shabby hut at the foot of a steep mountain on the border of Manchuria near the Yalu River. |
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She has a frank and guileless style of writing, letting the incredible subject matter remain the focus, rather than any shabby poetic frills. |
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He came virtually unscathed out of the two scams thanks largely to shabby investigation. |
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How shocking, then, to see this once-magnificent interior reduced to a shabby, grubby mess. |
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The black paint was peeling along the running boards, and the soft grey upholstery looked shabby and faded. |
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When you see a 500-year-old Venetian building, it may be a bit shabby and possibly even in danger. |
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Even though he informs them from his shabby desk that they are looking at God, these hardened thugs brutalize him anyway. |
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Put vernacularly, the citizens of barter-addicted countries will inevitably grow disenchanted with shoddy and shabby goods delivered late. |
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We are guided through a world where much is shabby and grubby, inhabited by characters who barely communicate with one another. |
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Removing his rather shabby cloak to reveal a more respectable outfit underneath, Maddock spied a nearby servant carrying a tray of food. |
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Lola herself has doffed her shabby robe and is wearing a gaudy dress patterned with large flowers. |
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She came to a particularly shabby house and started to walk up the front path overgrown with moss. |
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Finally, he was seen again on the streets of Savannah, shabby, unshaven, still looking handsome, like a law student after a stag night. |
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My dilapidated apartment didn't seem quite so shabby, the shops, not so familiar. |
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Do you really feel like you've escaped shabby housing, nosy neighbors and haggling with the fishmonger? |
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His clothes are shabby, his shoes worn, but he is always ready to intervene if some of the young men become a bit obstreperous. |
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Detractors raise an eyebrow even at that rating, while fans claim it is the apogee of shabby chic and effortless elegance. |
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As wide as she was tall, the woman was wearing a badly stained, purple house dress and shabby carpet slippers. |
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There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson. |
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He's slumped on the sofa, the lithe body swamped by a shapeless and shabby burgundy cardigan held together with a giant safety pin. |
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Down in Texas, at a shabby nursing home called Mud Creek Shady Rest, a fat wreck of a man is living out his final days. |
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Few argue with the need to improve the shabby eyesore which blights much of Piccadilly. |
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I should have spun on my heels and ran when he slipped the key into the lock of that shabby rooming house. |
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They where commenting on how much more the area around had become very shabby. |
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In his shabby Cologne apartment in 1973, Brinkmann used rudimentary means to improvise on a few scraps of paper. |
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He was smiling and waving at the onlookers, wearing a shabby business suit with an exceptionally loud tie. |
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Of all the shabby, shameful, disgraceful, despicable political acts, this was as bad as they get. |
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Through the low, open doorway a couple of shabby sheets are splayed across the floor in the tiny bedroom. |
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We'll see in the end, although most readers will have guessed long before all the lurid and shabby details come out. |
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But walking away with hundreds of millions of dollars for a failed vision isn't a shabby consolation prize. |
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Her tone had a note of finality to it and intuitively Nell rose, hands quivering with anticipation as she reached for the shabby black book. |
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At what point do we take that ignominious, shabby route down from the moral high ground to defend a Labour government? |
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It's a shabby sprawling metropolis ruled by brazen women, crooked cops and super-rich pansexual cowboys who live by the code of the West. |
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Compared to astrophotographs, images of computer simulations often seem like shabby make-believes. |
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For most visitors it was shabby and tawdry, with hotel rooms designed to be so uncomfortable that you had to go downstairs and gamble. |
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In summary, he says, yet another shabby, tawdry cover-up by the Defence Force and the Government. |
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A family of pale-faced, dark-haired children in flat caps and shabby clothes clinging together on one bench seat looked up at him as he passed. |
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We are in the backyards of two maladjusted households in adjoining row houses in a shabby South Philadelphia Italian-American neighborhood. |
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All were equally worn with work and dressed in shabby clothing, layered with tears and patches. |
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Now, if only somebody would do something about those manky, shabby, urban foxes which keep trashing my dustbin. |
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For example, exterior paintwork has been flaking, giving a shabby appearance to the city's last traditional picture house. |
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Karolyi removes his scuffed shoes, shabby suit, black bow tie, and frilled shirt and hangs them carefully over rusting bedrails. |
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It's impossible to read of the terrors abroad in her shabby streetscapes without total emotional involvement. |
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The stage was marvellously decorated to look like a shabby pub with its bar stools, spongy seats, Guinness mirrors and jukebox. |
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One by one, his brilliant strategies fell to tatters like the third-hand law books in his shabby office. |
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He took them quickly and in secret, hiding the camera under a long, shabby overcoat. |
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He habitually wore shabby tweeds and a cloth cap of the kind favoured by Cockney barrow boys, also by country squires. |
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Hunched over his acoustic guitar in a shabby Los Angeles nightclub, he hardly looks like Hollywood's newest sensation. |
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We miss its toe-curling political incorrectness, its shabby vulgarity, its embarrassed actors, and its toilet-roll scripts. |
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We can see that many homeless people reside under the toll bridge and live in shabby makeshift slums. |
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If he were to visit the shabby military compound, he might be in for an unpleasant surprise. |
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All of the houses were wooden, and most of the people were dressed in shabby clothes. |
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The boy, wearing a formal but slightly shabby overcoat, is standing, while his mother is seated, so his head is slightly higher than hers. |
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Yet their fictional lives are placed in direct contrast with their shabby and poor surroundings. |
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He was standing in a room, now wearing a pair of grey pants, a white short-sleeved shirt, and a pair of shabby looking boots. |
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You see, in the first act, the set was a dilapidated house with a weedgrown yard and shabby fence. |
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Maybe it's the lack of people, the lack of cars and the shuttered shabby houses. |
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At the time, it was considered a shabby place to live, because, well, we were a shabby family. |
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Craig and Craig is a bold building both inside and out forging a new initiative in what is essentially a shabby and down-at-heel area. |
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We are running short of food, our uniforms are shabby and dull, our shoes are full of holes, and we are also short on ammunition. |
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Sadness filled Jason's eyes and he stood there looking at Trevor with his shabby clothes and worn shoes. |
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I stayed with them in their base at Sukhum, a shabby old Soviet hotel with peacocks in the garden. |
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Warsaw is still full of grey Soviet-style buildings, a few haphazardly-built modern high rises and shabby stores selling cheap goods. |
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He agreed that some of the trains look shabby even after a good clean because many of them are about forty years old. |
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When confronted with the reality of a shabby and hostile England unlike the England of her dreams, she is utterly horrified. |
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There was an aura of displacement about him, I felt, and it wasn't because of his ragged clothes or the shabby appearance. |
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She's a shabby infant among lawyers clad in immaculate coal-coloured, pleated robes. |
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Apart from his improper and shabby looks, his weird name became the object of her cruel jokes. |
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Sadly, that same sort of shabby treatment has been accorded some of the mystery world's most beloved authors. |
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The red-brick mansion looks shabby with parts of it damaged and wild bushes growing around it. |
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Despite his sometimes shabby behavior, he has nobility of spirit compared to the bigger-budget showbiz types who are his rivals. |
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This was, I find, a piece of calculatedly shabby behaviour by which he hoped he might seize some tactical advantage over Mrs Ellis. |
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Of some sociological interest is the shabby treatment of Anne by the other leads. |
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Finally, on the biographical debit side there are the usual miscellaneous acts of thoughtlessness, rudeness and generally shabby behaviour. |
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The door holds fast for just a moment before giving, groaning its displeasure at the shabby treatment it has recently received. |
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If the rest of the world isn't getting this kind of shabby treatment, why should we? |
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Master Kit had shown up as usual, watching me from across a narrow, shadowy street, propped against the bins outside a shabby grocery. |
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By all accounts, the denunciations of shabby treatment by various news and current affairs programs come from around the room. |
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He died in a shabby Roman hotel the year after that regime had perished. |
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My answer to that accusation is that there is nothing shabby or disgraceful in telling writers the truth and acquainting them with the painful facts of publishing life. |
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The county town in Guangshan looks shabby and soulless, and is surrounded by flat countryside. |
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The West denounced the East as a desert of slab blocks, shabby, inferior and authoritarian, and feared a 'rehabilitation' of the rigorous social agenda. |
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It was all self-absorbed, shabby and suggestive of a leader about to take her troops over a cliff. |
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We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into. |
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Soon his mother will realize that I am unprepared to feed her son, that the few shabby pots and pans we have have lain cold amidst eat-out dates and prepackaged yummies. |
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If done well, and if the old landscaping was getting shabby, the improvement in appearance can have a large impact on the resale value of the house. |
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Marvel at the line-up of shabby kids in a line across the old Syke on Fellside, where smoke billows across the rooftops and cats prowl the cobbles. |
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Migrant workers often have to suffer being despised and laughed at and they are also associated with shabby clothes, vulgar behaviour and criminal activity. |
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It was such a lovely, shabby, many deco building town and completely unexploited. |
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Are all these setups, coincidences, misunderstandings, a shabby mass tabloid conspiracy, people on the make? |
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Not too shabby for a creature less than a year old who had never set a tentacle on the pitch. |
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Not too shabby for a dame who roared into town at three in the morning and complained about the other schlubs in the nursery who made too much noise. |
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We chugged along the river, its banks lined with shabby wooden huts. |
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There is a double bed up against one of the walls and a single opposite it, covered in shabby bedspreads with even more burn holes than our previous covers. |
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They were in shabby condition, having fallen into disrepair. |
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The hospital wards are shabby and rundown, staff spend as much time filling out forms as dealing with patients, everyone is overworked and over stressed. |
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And when some of the finer diners cast a disdainful eye upon their shabby, old-fashioned dresses, the two women merely giggled and stared right back at them. |
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I muttered, eyes glued to those clothes, worn and shabby looking. |
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Regardless of the kitchen's shabby condition, this was home to Isis. |
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It is a shabby and disrespectful epitaph for the tweedy old Bernard Quatermass and his adventures, which date back almost to the advent of television. |
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Why does he think her shabby treatment of you is acceptable? |
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I think it's so shabby when rows of tricolours are rotting away. |
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Last year I came back again and found, to my dismay and disappointment, a shabby, untidy and uncared for cluster of poorly kept houses with shocking colour schemes. |
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People will not, however, tolerate indefinitely shabby treatment meted out to right-minded citizens who work unrewarded in the interests of the community and its future. |
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The circular road is the most untidy area in the town due to the nature of buildings along this road, many of which are shabby outbuildings and garages. |
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But he was a revolutionist, an often shabby, poverty-stricken genius with a taste for the bottle. |
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Their free clinic in central Athens is housed in a shabby apartment that smells of feverish bodies and pungent medicine. |
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I walked along the shining hoods until I came to a shabby town car at the tail of the queue. |
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Give me a new toothbrush and I can widdle the thing down to nothing but a shabby nubbin of its former self within three days, using nothing but my teeth and gums. |
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As he tramped the cobbled streets of early nineteenth-century London, clad in his elder brother's shabby overcoat, he decided to get work as a stationer and bookbinder. |
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He wore a shabby pair of green slacks made from synthetic fibre and flared from the knee down, a green t-shirt and a pair of cast-off track shoes from a former client. |
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Her thin hair was plated in braids and her taffeta dresses looked shabby beside Geneva's pink organdie frock with her golden hair elegantly twisted atop her head in curls. |
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He wore fairly shabby clothes, perhaps better suited for a wanderer, and had green hair overflowing his head, with black streaks running here and there. |
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Come to think of it, not so long ago even Puccini was trashed by superior people, who considered his contemporaries decadent, shabby frauds beneath contempt. |
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Although his clothes were clean and cared-for, they were also clearly second-hand and shabby, and his long feet were bare on the cobbles of the street. |
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Always fashionable, I went with a shabby chic motif for my coop. |
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Not too shabby for a bunch of Texans working part-time in a cow town. |
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The Hampden of that time was glorious in its shabby splendour. |
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Images of derelict playgrounds and shabby facilities form the graffitied landscape 12-year-old Zack calls home and are the focus of his photographs. |
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He placed all three mugs on the laminate table top, along with three hideously chocolatey muffins and a shabby looking flyer, dog-eared and yellow. |
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Some were repellently shabby, with loose, stained suit jackets and down-at-heel black leather shoes, other with the shine of prosperity, plump in spotless waistcoats. |
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But like a second rate salesman, his silver tongue disguises the shabby substance. |
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He had said he would, but had dawdled skillfully and was still unfitly in bare feet and the shabby garments of a weekday. |
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He sat on a bollard, looking out across the water, a man more small and shabby than expected. |
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That is why, in spite of shabby dresses, unbanged hair, tremendous mouths, and large noses, some persons are purely delightful. |
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It is a bit shabby souq as compared to the renowned souqs of Dubai, but it does certainly make for an interesting stroll. |
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In photos, it looked charming in what Ms. Foxley describes as a fashionably shabby, slipcovered sort of way. |
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Once I remember he emptied the sand out of the fire bucket at the shabby old walk-up because he needed a pot to make a stew. |
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The lower half of a duplex apartment on a shabby Montreal street, dark as limbo, jerry-built fifty years ago and going off keel ever since. |
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With white painted floorboards, distressed furniture and a tailor's dummy, it's the epitomy of shabby chic. |
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Yet inside this shabby story is a nugget of insight screaming to get out. |
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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. |
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I often wonder what goes on outside the wrought iron gates of the Master's compound, beyond the shabby facade of the slave's chattel house. |
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For a touch of French shabby chic, make slipcovers for your pasttheir-best dining chairs, or cheat and have Bemz run some up for you. |
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They complained about the shabby treatment they received at the hotel. |
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It works well enough, but the shabby exterior offends his aesthetic sensibilities. |
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I say how much I like the shabby lounge atmosphere of a ruin pub, and Laura declares that this one, Szimpla Kert, is the mecca of ruin pubs. |
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He was clad in a shabby khaki-drill suit and grubby panama and sandshoes, and wore neither socks nor shirt, and was unshaven. |
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The fellow arrived looking rather shabby after journeying so far. |
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In the poem Southey is dismissed as insolent, narrow and shabby. |
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Small, stooping, and shabby, like an insulted and injured Dostoyevskian hero, he crept around in a furtive fashion with his hat covering his face and his eyes wet with tears. |
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He later came to consider himself honoured by worshipping with men of faith who came in shabby clothes and work boots and who sang all the verses to all the hymns. |
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They lived in a tiny apartment, with some old, shabby furniture. |
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Listen hard and you may hear them, the gruesome hobgoblins and shabby boogeymen that rattle around in the basement of Phelim McDermott's imagination. |
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But the foresightedness of the local council in investing millions to give her a kick into the new millennium has transformed the once shabby appearance. |
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