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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
51. They were tough from the threadbare lives they had led and that was good, because toughness would probably be required of them before all this was over
52. This dismal threadbare stretch of her life was over! Thank God because it had nearly been the death of her
53. This survival of a constant life at sea was a threadbare existence
54. Her very attire was threadbare to say the least
55. All there considerations count for nothing to one whose sole aim it seems is to sustain a threadbare doctrine
56. He wore only a pair of black swimming briefs that were threadbare in
57. cold on threadbare clothing biting to the bone and the very fabric of the human spirit
58. ribbons,' he said picking up the threads of a threadbare story
59. The hard, narrow, wretched, rickety bed of Don Quixote stood first in the middle of this star-lit stable, and close beside it Sancho made his, which merely consisted of a rush mat and a blanket that looked as if it was of threadbare canvas rather than of wool
60. I will not go into other particulars, as for example want of shirts, and no superabundance of shoes, thin and threadbare garments, and gorging themselves to surfeit in their voracity when good luck has treated them to a banquet of some sort
61. The ends of the sleeves of his coat were frayed and ragged, and the elbows were worn threadbare
62. The threadbare phrases, the inane expressions of sympathy, the cautious words of a reporter won over to conceal the details of a commonplace vulgar death attacked his stomach
63. The next morning I dressed in my hiking clothes—the same old stained sports bra and threadbare navy blue hiking shorts I’d been wearing since day 1, along with a new pair of wool socks and the last fresh T-shirt I’d have all the way to the end, a heather gray shirt that said UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY in yellow letters across the chest
64. A dangerously underweight corporal in threadbare fatigues comes for Werner on foot
65. Men in threadbare suits putting hands to the tops of their heads to take off hats that are no longer there
66. "A threadbare and venerable device, but useful upon occasion
67. Puller lay back on the bed and stared at the ceiling now instead of the threadbare carpet
68. There was a chest of drawers full of threadbare clothing, most of it man-made material, and all of it black
69. Levin saw proofs of this in his dress, in the old-fashioned threadbare coat, obviously not his everyday attire, in his shrewd deep-set eyes, in his idiomatic, fluent Russian, in the imperious tone that had become habitual from long use, and in the resolute gestures of his large, red, sunburnt hands, with an old betrothal ring on the little finger
70. Disposing of the threadbare remnants of the Imperial Desnairian Navy promised to be a somewhat more difficult task, however
71. He’d cautioned the rest of the Group of Four that what they actually knew about Gorthyk Nybar’s situation was dangerously threadbare, yet even as he’d issued the warning, he’d believed Nybar’s estimates were substantially correct
72. Sir Bartyn Sahmyrsyt, the heretic commander, had phrased his written message with at least marginal courtesy, but the iron fist inside the rather threadbare silk glove had been there for any to see
73. It is thus I like to remember Sebastian, as he was that summer, when we wandered alone together through that enchanted palace; Sebastian in his wheel chair spinning down the box-edged walks of the kitchen gardens in search of alpine strawberries and warm figs, propelling himself through the succession of hothouses, from scent to scent and climate to climate, to cut the muscat grapes and choose orchids for our button-holes; Sebastian hobbling with a pantomime of difficulty to the old nurseries, sitting beside me on the threadbare, flowered carpet with the toy-cupboard empty about us and Nanny Hawkins stitching complacently in the comer, saying, 'You're one as bad as the other; a pair of children the two of you
74. Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line at which the convenancesbegin to cramp natural feelings, and the stress of threadbare modishness makes too little of enough
75. rather a want of common-sense in these threadbare old propositions; how I could have been so fired by poor Parson Clare's enthusiasm, and have gone so madly to work, transcending even him, I cannot make out! As for what you said last time, on the strength of your wonderful
76. broad-chested but otherwise small man, about forty, whose black was very threadbare: the brilliancy was all in his quick gray eyes
77. Mary admired the keen-faced handsome little Vicar in his well-brushed threadbare clothes more than any man she had had the opportunity of knowing
78. Patients who had chronic diseases or whose lives had long been worn threadbare, like old Featherstone's, had been at once inclined to try him; also, many who did not like paying their doctor's bills, thought agreeably of opening an account with a new doctor and sending for him without stint if the children's temper wanted a dose, occasions when the old practitioners were often crusty; and all persons thus inclined to employ Lydgate held it likely that he was clever
79. Christy glanced at his own threadbare knees, and then at Fred's beautiful white trousers
80. THE TALL KID with pink-blond hair falling over his face and wearing threadbare jeans and a glittering T-shirt came over to where Will was standing with his back to the wall
81. Directly behind the main hospital building was a steep frost-covered lawn which ended in threadbare scrub pines
82. This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots
83. In the chimney stood a pair of firedogs of iron, ornamented above with two garlanded vases, and flutings which had formerly been silvered with silver leaf, which was a sort of episcopal luxury; above the chimney-piece hung a crucifix of copper, with the silver worn off, fixed on a background of threadbare velvet in a wooden frame from which the gilding had fallen; near the glass door a large table with an inkstand, loaded with a confusion of papers and with huge volumes; before the table an arm-chair of straw; in front of the bed a prie-Dieu, borrowed from the oratory
84. They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with
85. The Bishop took his staff, put on his cloak, on account of his too threadbare cassock, as we have mentioned, and because of the evening breeze which was sure to rise soon, and set out
86. His shirt of coarse yellow linen, fastened at the neck by a small silver anchor, permitted a view of his hairy breast: he had a cravat twisted into a string; trousers of blue drilling, worn and threadbare, white on one knee and torn on the other; an old gray, tattered blouse, patched on one of the elbows with a bit of green cloth sewed on with twine; a tightly packed soldier knapsack, well buckled and perfectly new, on his back; an enormous, knotty stick in his hand; iron-shod shoes on his stockingless feet; a shaved head and a long beard
87. At the one end of the hall, the one where he was, were judges, with abstracted air, in threadbare robes, who were gnawing their nails or closing their eyelids; at the other end, a ragged crowd; lawyers in all sorts of attitudes; soldiers with hard but honest faces; ancient, spotted woodwork, a dirty ceiling, tables covered with serge that was yellow rather than green; doors blackened by handmarks; tap-room lamps which emitted more smoke than light, suspended from nails in the wainscot; on the tables candles in brass candlesticks; darkness, ugliness, sadness; and from all this there was disengaged an austere and august impression, for one there felt that grand human thing which is called the law, and that grand divine thing which is called justice
88. He wore a very old and very well brushed round hat; a coarse coat, worn perfectly threadbare, of an ochre yellow, a color that was not in the least eccentric at that epoch; a large waistcoat with pockets of a venerable cut; black breeches, worn gray at the knee, stockings of black worsted; and thick shoes with copper buckles