Utiliser "tatters" dans une phrase

1. Clearly, it left her self-confidence in tatters and her belief in people destroyed; poor Anna, it must be devastating to find the one person you ought to be able to trust abusing that trust

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2. During that first year of writing, she’d covered both sides of it with verse, but it had long since worn away to tatters

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3. The light wasn't any brighter, but the conscripts weren't in tatters up here

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4. Her hair was in disarray and her blouse hung from her arms in tatters

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5. Her clothes were in tatters, and she hid her face in her arms, rocking back and fourth, even though the cage wasn’t locked, or even shut

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6. wreckage, his hair in tatters and his clothes muddied and torn

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7. In torrents and tatters

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8. with the wrong person, and your rep is in tatters, and you have a lot of groveling to the

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9. It was not included in our visions of the future, and now our knowledge of what will be lies in tatters

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10. Even before Duncan takes in the man’s dark hair and regal bearing, though what dignity any of them might have laid claim to lies in tatters now, he knows who it is, and, because of that, where he is

11. When, at last, Ralph is upright, he sees his clothes are in tatters and the skin on his arms is bleeding

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12. The nations were at ease and Israel was in tatters

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13. A mob of men in tatters were advancing on a company of soldiers holding bayoneted rifles

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14. His clothes were in tatters and his face was scratched and drenched with sweat,

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15. Her dress was in tatters

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16. Even though his pride was in tatters, he thought that it was wise to make the move sooner rather than later

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17. ” June would agree, promise to discard the robe, and show up months later wrapped within its tatters

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18. The mute beggar crouched in the courtyard, and there was none to see that the hands which held the severed head were quivering strongly—brown, sinewy hands, strangely incongruous with the bent body and filthy tatters

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19. She crouched in her tatters, staring wildly

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20. Her cloth-of-gold slippers were in tatters, her robes and silken under-garments torn to shreds that scarcely held together decently

21. He tried to fumble with a mangled hand at his tatters, and Conan, understanding what he sought to convey, bent and drew from about his gory waist a girdle of curious aspect

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22. The sun was sinking toward the distant crags when Conan, his garments hacked to tatters and the mail under them reeking and clotted with blood, his knife dripping and crusted to the hilt, strode over the corpses to where Yasmina Devi sat her horse among her nobles on the crest of the ridge, near a lofty precipice

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23. Conan's breeks hung in blood-stained tatters; his girdle and sheath were gone, his sword, driven upright into the deck beside him, was notched and crusted with red

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24. I was shipped to the NSW prison system with my life and relationships in tatters but I took comfort in the fact my mate V had my back and once released I would return to the world with a very tidy sum of money and a business to run

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25. With no shirt and only tatters left of what had been his pants, Jet wanted this tall white man to see that he was no threat, except that even unarmed, Jet could be a threat if he chose to be

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26. His clothing in tatters, his shoes cracked, the old knapsack on his shoulder his only luggage, he looked like a beggar, but his bearing had a dignity that was in frank contradiction to his appearance

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27. Shooters was a Foggy Harbor landmark, sitting just off the town square, located conveniently between a bail bondsman and the law firm of Tatters and Barnes

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28. donned solely in putrid tatters torn;

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29. Moten opened wide, horrified eyes when he realized that the object was the mangled and burned up torso of a Japanese soldier, the head, arms and legs ripped away and with the flesh in tatters

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30. The roads leading East are full of abandonned or destroyed vehicles and guns and our railway network in Belorussia and the Ukraine lies in tatters

31. My self-esteem’s in tatters

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32. Her mind was in tatters

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33. She scoured my poor skin with the liquid soap, leaving my stomach and one buttock in painful tatters

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34. Her career was in tatters but she was holding Jason Demovic in her arms and it was clear that he wanted her and that she wanted him

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35. They were both in tatters from the wreck but even in rags, together they looked like some crazy ad for Calvin Klein underwear

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36. filthy clothes, such as they were, hung in tatters from his gaunt frame

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37. If people just gave up after a little knock or break people lives would just be lying in tatters

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38. “What is it? What do I need to see?” Hiss asked, sweating, his combover in tatters, suit drenched

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39. The MMC was in tatters

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40. She could hardly open her own firm with that in tatters

41. A painted panel lay in tatters on the floor

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42. My dress hung in rags and tatters, and I smelled like a drowned sewer rat, yet she put her own cape over my shoulders and treated me with love and respect, never uttering a mean or degrading word

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43. I vividly remembered going to sleep, still dressed in my rags and tatters, but the vision I saw before me was outfitted for traveling in the finest red velvet

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44. “Be sure to scrape the ashes from those tatters, there,” said Lynch to Mary

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45. Baroness Glambeck, driving towards the town along the shade-flecked highroad, bent on one of those errands of mercy that are forced at intervals upon the great, with a basket of the properties, principally home-made jam and mittens, at her feet, endeavoured though vainly to mitigate the shock she received on being cut by her own pastor's wife, and a pastor's wife producing curiously the effect of somehow being in tatters, by using the same word to the female dependent who accompanied her on these occasions because somebody had to carry the jam--_Engländerin_

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46. The trousers themselves were black, stained with oil and what passersby could only imagine, and they came to his calves, the ends in tatters, almost the same colour as the skin they were too short to cover

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47. He strips the ribbons away cross by cross, in an effort to control his urge to rip the damn thing apart and leave it in tatters on the floor

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48. Soon only bones and tatters of clothing would be lying here

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49. Whenever she received a letter from him, she reread it until it was in tatters

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50. Long held dreams are all in tatters

51. His plans for a new life without Marc were now in tatters

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52. The wonderful gardens were in tatters

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53. Oh my God, my reputation in the neighbourhood, if I ever had any, lies in tatters

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54. understand the ideal of human unity without the filthy and ugly tatters that so badly and

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55. He, and his old canvas frock, and his loose stockings, and all his poor tatters of clothes, had, in a long seclusion from direct light and air, faded down to such a dull uniformity of parchment-yellow, that it would have been hard to say which was which

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56. The paper had come off the bottom of the wall and hung there in tatters

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57. O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings, who for the most part are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: pray you, avoid it

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58. But I have seen thee bunting, to tatters torn upon thy splinter'd staff, Or clutch'd to some young color-bearer's breast with desperate hands, Savagely struggled for, for life or death, fought over long,

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59. Above the splintered mast a sail rent to tatters was waving; suddenly the ropes that still held it gave way, and it disappeared in the darkness of the night like a vast sea-bird

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60. One instant he’s a man—the next his clothing is in tatters on the floor

61. When I at last took courage to return to the room, I found Estella sitting at Miss Havisham's knee, taking up some stitches in one of those old articles of dress that were dropping to pieces, and of which I have often been reminded since by the faded tatters of old banners that I have seen hanging up in cathedrals

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62. From there he trudged off to a classroom-management class, aware that he hadn’t stopped moving since the alarm had gone off, his regular routine in tatters

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63. Tatters floated along the edge of the hole it once covered

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64. Needless to say, she did everything her own way and all Plague could do was sit at his desk in Sundbyberg and wait, his nerves in tatters

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65. And my dressing-gown, which will not cover me, such tatters, and she will see all this and she will see Apollon

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66. in shreds and tatters

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67. about him in wild tatters

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68. To all appearances, yes, the way he dressed in tatters of moss-corduroy and the felt cap on his head, covered with old presidential campaign buttons going back before Manila Bay

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69. Not only has he torn a passion to tatters, he has, madness maddened, stomped on it, ravened it with his teeth, and hurled it across the footlights at unsuspecting club ladies

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70. On her feet, she had large, coarse, men's shoes, bespattered with mud, which had splashed even to her red ankles, and she was wrapped in an old mantle which hung in tatters

71. She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes were larger, the tatters more sordid

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72. One would have said that it was the tatters of a people, rags of wood, of iron, of bronze, of stone, and that the Faubourg Saint Antoine had thrust it there at its door, with a colossal flourish of the broom making of its misery its barricade

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73. " And then, as they all watched, horrified, his body burned into blue dust and charred bone, the ashes of which fled through the air in black tatters

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74. The wind blew at her and, like an image on cold water, she rippled, silk standing out from her frail body in tatters of blue rain

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75. The sky, the land, the people, the flushed pink bricks here, scrolled electric-blue ironwork balconies there, a mandolin ripe as a fruit in some man’s thousand fingerprinting hands, billboard tatters blowing like confetti in night winds—how much was Picasso, how much George Smith staring round the world with wild Picasso eyes? He despaired of answering

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76. ” The woman’s bra and jeans were in tatters on the floor now, leaving her wearing nothing but a pair of bright red panties

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77. You were finally cornered, your explanations exhausted, your alibis depleted, your pride in tatters

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78. ” And then, as they all watched, horrified, his body burned into blue dust and charred bone, the ashes of which fled through the air in black tatters

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79. There was nothing the Indian gentleman loved more than the recollection of the little princess in rags and tatters

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80. But, at some distance, Moby Dick rose again, with some tatters of Radney's red woollen shirt, caught in the teeth that had destroyed him

81. And lastly, in a street near the poultry market, a group of small burgesses, numbering about forty, whose clothes were in tatters, and whose faces, through the combined effects of fear, hunger, and cold, retained scarcely any semblance of humanity, waited till the suite approached the end of the street, then fell on their knees, stretching out their arms to the Emperor, bewailing what they had suffered, lamenting their utter ruin, and begging for mercy and bread!

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82. At every step were to be seen gallant officers, dressed in tatters, and leaning on sticks of pinewood, with their hair and beards covered with icicles

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83. “These troops knew nothing of the sufferings of the main army, so that they were perfectly astounded when, in the place of the well-appointed columns of the victors of Moscow, they saw Napoleon followed by this rabble of skeletons, clad in tatters, in women’s jackets, in fragments of old carpets or filthy remnants of rusty cloaks, burnt into holes, with their legs wrapped in all manner of scraps and rags

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84. How could I suppose, for instance, that old rags possessed still some value? And, nevertheless, my blanket was made up entirely of tatters

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85. Look at her tatters and rags—the badge of those who lose their virtue

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86. They could not bear that their dear Leon should love a poor girl without shoes to her feet and dressed all in rags and tatters

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87. Their lodging consisted of two nasty little rooms, with smoke-begrimed walls on which the filthy wall-paper literally hung in tatters

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