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shabbily
1. As he went in, the first person in the queue, a small, shabbily dressed man, stopped him
2. ) My rumpled business attire and slurred, but educated speech must have impressed the low level city judge in West LA Police Court because, along with all the other more shabbily attired, smellier denizens of the drunk tank, I was sentenced to the customary “Two Days, Twenty Dollars, Suspended
3. But he was so outraged over what had happened and how shabbily I was being treated, not to mention his lost commission, he finally said, “You weren’t hired because you are an expense account cheater
4. Two youngsters—four or five years old, barefoot and shabbily dressed—sidled into camp
5. He invoked the memory of the way American veterans returning from Vietnam and the wars in the middle east were so shabbily treated by an ungrateful government more intent on giving tax breaks for its wealthiest supporters than it was in properly funding programs for veterans
6. Ensign Kawena, despite having been treated shabbily in the past, was still a loyal officer of your country’s navy
7. Are the Surtorians here, too? She didn’t see any, only the shabbily dressed Vik men
8. attorneys treated me shabbily 364 days out of the year, it would not matter to me if they
9. Susan’s apartment was shabbily decorated with lots of red five and dime
10. Like the others, he was shabbily dressed and smoothed the few long straggly hairs that were still on his bald head--maybe trying to look more presentable
11. She had been treated shabbily, deprived of a vast fortune that was rightfully hers, by her scheming sister and her vindictive old grandmother
12. He was dressed shabbily
13. In a seat at the back of the hall knelt a pale-faced, weary-looking little woman about thirty-six years of age, very shabbily dressed, who had come in during the singing
14. When Crass, Philpot, Easton and Bundy entered, the landlord, a well-fed, prosperous-looking individual in white shirt-sleeves, and a bright maroon fancy waistcoat with a massive gold watch-chain and a diamond ring, was conversing in an affable, friendly way with one of his regular customers, who was sitting on the end of the seat close to the counter, a shabbily dressed, bleary-eyed, degraded, beer-sodden, trembling wretch, who spent the greater part of every day, and all his money, in this bar
15. After this hymn the `minister' invited a shabbily dressed `brother' - a working-man member of the PSA, to say a `few words', and the latter accordingly stepped into the centre of the ring and held forth as follows:
16. This man looked about sixty-five years of age, and was very shabbily dressed
17. There were also two very plainly and shabbily dressed women about thirty-five years of age, who were always to be found there on Saturday nights, drinking with any man who was willing to pay for them
18. Haggard and pale, shabbily or raggedly dressed, their boots broken and down at heel, they slouched past
19. Notwithstanding the cold weather, there was a great crowd of shabbily dressed people, many of whom had not had a really good meal for months
20. Barrington was specially interested in the groups of shabbily dressed men and women and children who gathered in the
21. A short prayer from Bosher closed the meeting, and now the reason for the presence of the two poverty-stricken-looking shabbily dressed disciples was made manifest, for while the better dressed and therefore more respectable Brothers were shaking hands with and grinning at each other or hovering round the two clergymen and Mr Sweater, these two poor wretches carried away the harmonium and the lantern, together with the hymn books and what remained of the tracts
22. And the people we saw on the streets were either shabbily dressed or turned out in the latest urban attire
23. And the engine is crowded with the queerest lot of people! Men like ancient warders, waving halberds; policemen in their helmets, waving truncheons; and shabbily dressed men in pothats, obvious and unmistakable plain-clothes detectives even at this distance, waving revolvers and walking-sticks; all waving, and all shouting the same thing— "Stop, stop, stop!"'
24. Behind them, at a respectful distance, followed a large the sunny path through the garden, Pork bowed his head upon the top of the spade straggling crowd of neighbors and friends, shabbily dressed, silent
25. They were so much more attractive than the town swains who dressed so shabbily
26. The country in which I lived in childhood was being shabbily destroyed before I was ten, in days when
27. This night, I thought, is lunatic! All about me, wives, hilarious with contempt, hysterical at being so shabbily revealed in their national pastimes, gagged for air
28. And the engine is crowded with the queerest lot of people! Men like ancient warders, waving halberds; policemen in their helmets, waving truncheons; and shabbily dressed men in pot-hats, obvious and unmistakable plain-clothes detectives even at this distance, waving revolvers and walking-sticks; all waving, and all shouting the same thing—"Stop, stop, stop!"'
29. He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck
30. And worst of all, perhaps, was the thought that he had behaved so shabbily to Liza, and to no purpose ! It would be interesting to know for what these foppish young snobs think well of one another, and on what grounds they can respect one another ; this prince might well have supposed that Anna Andreyevna knew of his connection with Liza:—in reality her sLstcr—or if she did not actually know, that she would be certain to hear of it sooner or later ; and yet he had ' had no doubt of her acceptance ! "
31. It was a short man, and seemed like an artisan who had been drinking; he was shabbily and scantily dressed; a cloth cap, soaked by the rain and with the brim half torn off, perched on his shaggy, curly head
32. And I did not go, because I thought it was treating the husband shabbily
33. Then I saw the big, square house where I had been born, shabbily in need of paint; the lonely fields sloping away from it, the woods of yellow birch and pine, the lonely blue reaches of our Northern bays, and my mother sitting in her poor black frock alone by the fire in the early evening
