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shabby
1. revealing a shabby hovel of a place that reeked of decay and mould
2. endlessly and the glories and splendours of your surroundings grew shabby and mean
3. flood in his shabby little nest, and yet he felt a certain thrill at the sight of this weedy
4. He rented a shabby flat in the
5. The pickings became sour and few, you hungered endlessly and the glories and splendours of your surroundings grew shabby and mean
6. A drowned rat, he thought, a drowned rodent waiting out the flood in his shabby little nest, and yet he felt a certain thrill at the sight of this weedy little specimen, as though they were joined by an invisible umbilical cord
7. He rented a shabby flat in the port slum and, when the coin for wine evaporated, he might work for a few nights as a pot-washer or something equally lonely
8. Behind the desperate couple, the house lights went up, but they were so engrossed in their respective miseries that neither of them noticed a shabby little old man shuffling down one of the aisles and taking a front row seat
9. As they both turned to look at the man he doffed his shabby top hat and grinned a toothless grin
10. The newly homeless couple were manhandled out of the car without a further word being said by anyone and left standing on the loose stones and thinly grassed topsoil at the top of the cliff where they had once lived a spare and shabby life in a caravan
11. doffed his shabby top hat and grinned a toothless grin
12. the cliff where they had once lived a spare and shabby life in a
13. The room is in half light, protected from the outside world by shabby brown curtains that are almost drawn together
14. " Jake answered, to what he thought, was her calling him, popping his head into the shabby dimly lit room in the basement
15. His dress was shabby and she remembered him running off with
16. His presence in this shabby quarter seemed out of place
17. So that’s what Homer was doing on the shabby street where
18. Usually we’d discover a gas station, small and a little shabby, property not realizing its potential, given the traffic
19. sound but shabby and it wasn’t drawing much of a tourist crowd
20. And the rear view wasn’t too shabby, either
21. The location for the hotel couldn’t be better on the skirt of deep gorge with towering, jungle-covered mountains opposite, superb stables and the inn was anything but shabby
22. The suit was shabby silver gray over the same button down white shirt or its brother
23. It was also arranged and furnished in the same sparse and shabby manner, with the exception that the room seemed to be filled with luggage
24. The First Officer looked at the shabby work clothes they were wearing and the caps with red stars on them and remarked, “You certainly don’t look like what you say you are, ma’am
25. She barely seemed to take notice of him; she was staring at the shabby road and the approaching rovers with a cold, crisp fixation
26. In the dark, the shabby appearance of its exterior was not noticeable, but as they filed into the entrance hall that served as a lobby, they could see that the establishment had seen better days
27. We were side by side in a bookkeeping class on the second floor of a shabby inner-city building of Johannesburg
28. Here was Mary with a new velvet cap, but she and Faith had to wear their shabby old gray tams again this winter
29. Somehow, they did not make other people feel shabby
30. They were shabby enough
31. One wrist was still bandaged, though the bandages were torn and shabby; her face was scratched and her clothes were blackened from heat and smoke
32. She had found everything she needed for the baby at swap meets and garage sales in neighbouring towns and had then taken them home and very lovingly sterilised and washed everything, nothing was going to look shabby for her baby even if they were second hand
33. Libby stood outside the shabby house and though this is not what I really want
34. several bales of hay, emerging with a shabby, much re-charged
35. Which is distinct from a ‘Sending’, which is… Oh drat this shabby translation spell! At any rate, the gifts will magically appear
36. He wore gray, ragged clothes that looked so shabby and dingy
37. She wore shabby and dirty clothes
38. If the notes on the property were difficult to begin with it makes perfect sense that other issues such as leaking roofs, shabby
39. But as he slipped his tunic on, he realised that it was not as torn or shabby as it had been
40. SHE COULD HAVE pretended she was vacationing, if she wasn’t staying in a shabby two star hotel where the only good feature was that it was close to the Bograshov Beach and restaurants
41. The shabby clothes he slept in the night before
42. She apologized for the shabby condition of the living room
43. could see by the wealthy Miles' smug expressions it must appear pretty shabby
44. There were still a few shabby corners to the
45. I approached the parked cars in the heart of the Forest Preserve—I observed the insignia on Millsap’s squad car and the dark tint on Grim’s shabby Caprice
46. And now? Now he lived a pointless existence in a backward hamlet populated by trailer trash and clod-hopping farmers, bunking in a shabby room of a run-down farmhouse on a dirt road in the boondocks, drinking water from a well out of mismatched glasses, counting himself lucky when this girl cooked him a hot meal served up on chipped crockery
47. brew as I watched him shuffle down the road with his shabby sandals
48. A day sawing and removing fallen logs and branches from tracks was the medicine needed, and after a long hot bath, a close shave and running the clippers over his body, the shabby, sweaty, feral creature was transformed into a clean, neat, fit and sleekly attractive young man who would excite but not frighten his next class of fourteen year-olds
49. These shabby buildings were very different from the fashionable shops and salons found in the wealthy Merchants’ Quarter, where the hats manufactured here would ultimately be sold
50. built man in a shabby suit with a three day growth of whiskers covering a