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    threadbare


    1. mattress was far too soft and the sheets somewhat threadbare, Johnny soon dropped


    2. he raised the threadbare sheets up around his neck, and then sat up


    3. He seemed to know instinctively that eye of the storm would come from the east, from the direction that lay behind him, in his long distant past, and slumped forward as he was, he began, as he always did in such circumstances, to count the tufts in the grey and threadbare boot carpet


    4. and she kicks off a threadbare mule


    5. Once the pattern of snoring and grinding teeth settled down in the next room, Kirk slipped out of the bed he shared with his little sister, pulled on a threadbare dressing gown two sizes too small for his arms, and crept downstairs


    6. He walks the few metres from his bed, past a threadbare red brocade armchair, to the kitchenette


    7. Images of Bex merge with shots of junkies in their Trainspotting brutality; threadbare interiors, screams and shouts, blue lights, shadows, blank faces, anonymous dealers, and spliced into the sequence he sees Jock Cascarino's smug face as he tells Billy to buck-up his ideas and get a plan


    8. Threadbare fucking carpets, the stage is wank and the boss pays peanuts


    9. Ted has lived here for five years and he knows the layout of his tiny, threadbare flat like the back of his hand


    10. Before Hesper noticed, she quickly tucked the sack down the threadbare chiton that Tragus had provided

    11. The visitor nodded a polite acknowledgement upon seeing Mr Pinscher, and remained standing, restlessly fiddling with the tattered hem of his threadbare coat, as he waited his turn to speak


    12. ” I mean any idiot could see by our uniforms which were a mish mash of different bits we had scrounged that had been cut down and were now threadbare


    13. ” Then with shaking hands he pined a white envelope to my tunic over the heart the tunic I was wring was old and threadbare with no insignia or rank good enough for a coward to be buried in


    14. A threadbare carpet led them up two flights of stairs permeated with the scent of lye, which did not quite overpower the underlying urine stench


    15. I had noticed that most of my shirts now had all of their buttons, and I suspected that Mother or the fossil had gotten tired of my threadbare looks and had decided to ‘improve’ me


    16. before him, and his threadbare clothes darned up and brushed, to look


    17. The chill entered with a flourish of grey, threadbare fog


    18. A bearded man, his clothes less threadbare than the others, stepped forward and identified himself as the Panowie


    19. The single hotel offered rooms with doors of nailed planks, cement floors, platforms of raw wood covered over with thin, flattened foam rubber as beds, a single, threadbare sheet, one frayed towel, no pillows, a bare bulb hanging from a spider web decorated wire, no window, no fan and walls partially covered in flaking, stained paint


    20. Selma finished tying the belt to the threadbare

    21. Frederick lived a Spartan personal life—“The king dressed in a threadbare uniform at all times”4—with little concern for rank or ceremonies


    22. The Gathandrian park with the weak and threadbare army of the Gathandrian men gathered before him ripe for the conquering


    23. With that, while Simon was still struggling for words to respond, Ralph turned in a swirl of threadbare, once noble, cloak, stalked out of the room and was gone


    24. At the corner, the wood began with oaks and elders, their branches snagging at her threadbare cloak and the remains of snowfall sliding onto her hair as she brushed past


    25. Without a word, the night-woman headed for the back where the shadows lurked and disappeared out of view for a heartbeat or two before reappearing with some threadbare blankets and pieces of wood


    26. Father Haralambos sat on his bed, the early morning sun shining through the threadbare curtains


    27. She began pouring water, universal amalgam that reduces to brew all the elements that are placed in it; Then some dried herbs threadbare (later I knew it was "peppermint") and from a blue bottle she added a few drops of castor oil; from a stalk of Aloe tore off four crystals and also threw them to the stew along with a thin branch of cinnamon


    28. In front of the control panel were two well worn swivel chairs, threadbare with the stuffing coming out of the arms


    29. These were badly turned out troops in well-worn, even threadbare uniforms


    30. He was wearing a threadbare tee shirt and equally worn out blue jeans

    31. ‘’They are unfortunately mostly threadbare by now, Admiral


    32. around the ant-lions, curving around her on the threadbare mattress


    33. On a bed sat a threadbare teddy bear, and on a desk by the wall stood what looked like a computer


    34. There was an old threadbare rug on the scarred hardwood flooring whose colors were long since faded


    35. although the threadbare coats, mismatched gloves, and torn


    36. A huddled figure lay in the corner, covered with threadbare blankets


    37. room directly above Galahad’s, this one sparsely furnished with a threadbare carpet and two oak chairs


    38. Thandi with the threadbare bedspread and fell,


    39. A threadbare couch was propped up against the wall with two building bricks replacing an absent leg


    40. I imagine their souls thin and threadbare, stunted by cold and hunger, poor and pitiful, but certainly there

    41. The chair she sat in was old and threadbare, but looked comfortable and I assumed she was going to question me at length


    42. No, they didn’t have holes in them, but they were starting to get a little threadbare


    43. Celia sighed and sat on the sofa, spreading her skirt to cover as much of the threadbare fabric as possible, as was her habit when we had company


    44. I wish we had one in my lounge room instead of our threadbare recliner


    45. We have threadbare team strength in the editorial after we were forced


    46. His threadbare boxer shorts had gone grey with age and most of his socks had holes in them


    47. Her mother pulled her from bed, dragged her wintercoat around her nightdress, her best shoes onto her cold feet as she clung to her threadbare teddy


    48. We cracked open cans of chilled lager, sat on threadbare


    49. The bed was made up with a threadbare red cotton blanket on top and Rami pulled the blanket and pointed at the sheets and the pillows with a smile


    50. regions of Cairo had their „European" centers, which were relatively clean and well kept with tramcars and viable communications and on their edges, near the fields, near the desert and the industrial areas were a hodge-podge of cheap, hopelessly unattractive and threadbare, small apartment blocks built on dirt roads




































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    banal commonplace hackneyed old-hat shopworn stock threadbare timeworn tired trite well-worn