As mentioned above, Dowdy (1955) did not find Parcoblatta sp.
I do not find the latter in Johnson, but dowdy in Shakespeare, and slattern is from the Swedish.
That gay city is always en fete the day she arrives, as her carriages pass surrounded by French cavalry, one can catch a glimpse of her big face, and dowdy little figure, which nevertheless she can make so dignified when occasion requires.
Of course, my husband resumes his professional studies; of course, I am thrown once more among the dowdy gossiping women.
Illustration: The Dowdy Mrs. Ebbsmith makes it hot for her young man.
She wore a large, dowdy hat of black beaver, and a sort of slightly affected simple dress that made her look rather sack-like.
Dowdy in dress, and drooping, she showed to great disadvantage.
She was not remarkable in any way, merely a rather dowdy girl sitting alone at a little table.
This stout and dowdy woman held the keys of the dullest and most exclusive houses.
What a dowdy little friend," yawned Esme as they sped down Piccadilly.
I am one of the dowdy people who like to mess in the kitchen and dust, value a pleasure for what it costs .
APPLE DOWDY Grease well with shortening a deep pudding pan and then place a layer one inch thick of thinly sliced apples and then sprinkle well with sugar and dust with cinnamon.
Dust the dowdy lightly with nutmeg and serve with fruit or vanilla sauce.
The young girls, however, wholly eschew the hats; leaving those dowdyold souls, their mothers, to make frights of themselves.
He felt that he must see her again and convince himself that she was merely the governess, a dowdy and elderly person, nothing at all like his imagination.
Poor Nan herself had come to affect him as scarce other than red-nosed and dowdy by that time, but this only added, in his then, and indeed in his lasting view, to his general and his particular morbid bravery.
Hunter's morning sleekness annoyed Edith, who felt dowdy and unkempt after a bad night.
Her brown hair curved in what Edith decided was a natural wave, not helped by her dowdy muddy-brown dress.
Perhaps to her your dowdy Wife define Who cares no more, so that her Cupboard shine: Who revel in your House without Controul, And eat and waste your Means our Blood and Soul.
In her dowdy black and antiquated ornaments she was not what Undine would have called "stylish"; but she had a droll kind way which reminded the girl of her father's manner when he was not tired or worried about money.
The incomprehensible part of it was that every other woman in the hotel was plain, dowdy or elderly--and most of them all three.
Both she in her "artistic" way and Judy in her quiet smartness were very different from the women Ishmael had been seeing of late years--the dowdy county ladies or Vassie in her splendid flamboyance.
Looking through the dowdy wardrobe from Angouleme, she found nothing better than a certain green velvet gown, trimmed fantastically enough.
Albert as a dowdy dissenter was quite out of her expensive sphere, but to Vera any man was a man.
Except for a few girls in dowdy finery and a few heavy youths with their black or dark-blue trousers turned up round the ankles far enough to show the white cotton lining, the street was empty.
My things seemed elegant at home, and I thought I'd be over over-dressed if anything; but I look countrified and dowdy here.
And, by the way, it is rather hard lines that so many celebrated men have such dowdy wives.
Besides, I had heard Seymour say she was dowdy and awkward.
And even his affectionate disposition and fine temper were not proof, after the first ebullitions of tenderness had subsided, against my dowdy wretched appearance, and my dejection of manner.
He was looking very handsome, and had certainly renewed his youth in a way that made her feel, as she raised her eyes to the glass that always hung opposite his place at table, that she looked older and more dowdy than ever.
It wouldn't matter to this prospective bridegroom that his lovely little sweetheart's mother was a dowdy old woman; and she was tired, and wanted a cup of tea more than anything in the world.
