A frowsy looking woman came out, all smiles, and nodded pleasantly at the expectant group in the wagon.
The frowsyman struggled up, shifted his revolver so as not to sit on it, and extended his hand.
I forget now precisely how it came about, but I went to live at a frowsy caravanserai in Bouverie Street, an astonishingly dirty and disreputable hotel called the 'Sussex.
It is a frowsy kind of sedan-chair on wheels, with greasy leather curtains and cushions.
Mrs. Despard assured herself of this in a brief interview with a frowsy woman across a glass-topped show-box of silk-embroidered cigar-cases.
Since that memorable night in Monte Carlo he had been living in frowsy surroundings, concealed in thieves' hiding-places, eating coarse food, and hearing the slang of the underworld of Europe.
The frowsy old feather bed of one's infancy has so completely gone out of favour that it is hardly necessary to place one more stone on the cairn of abuse already raised over it by doctors' and nurses' hands.
Jealousy," said Mike, putting his hat on the back of his frowsy head.
Meanwhile, instead of getting the most out of the short space of time allotted to him and having Billy alone somewhere, here he was shaking hands with a frowsy bunch of highbrows.
Miss Cecilia Tennant looked at him in a way that would have frozen a younger man, but the frowsy object from the back shop only smirked and laughed.
A frowsy woman was talking across the counter to a clerk whose bald head shone, glossy as ivory, above the gray fatigue of his face.
Early morning saw him, an inconspicuous, frowsy figure, slouching up to a way station on the line to Sacramento.
She hated it even more than she had hated the Casa Grande and her mother's frowsy mentality.
She hated the three old maids on the third floor and the frowsy woman on the first, who sat on the front steps in her soiled breakfast cap and bungalow apron.
The white men and the white men's black followers have been clothed, so they too must wear old uniforms, old coats, old trousers, something in the way of frowsy coverings of their bronze bodies.
The girls consequently had a frowsy look, somewhat belied by their glossy faces and arms, their brilliant eyes, and dazzling white teeth.
Half of the rim was missing and his frowsy hair showed through the crown.
On the log sat a ragged, frowsy tramp, with a crooked stick in his hand tending the blaze, while on the ground half lying down and half sitting up, was a second vagrant sucking a corncob pipe.
Stael was too wise and witty to be acceptable to Napoleon; and many women repeated with unction that the conqueror of Europe was no match for this frowsy little woman.
His natural drift was toward a beer-garden, a group of frowsy followers, the reek of vile tobacco, and the smell of sour beer.
Presently his vision cleared: he found himself watching the milk-cart drive off, and, following it towards the frowsy avenue of Brick Lane, he beheld what seemed to be a drunken fight in progress.
Then she's tied to the frowsy children forever, and is known as Sister Mary of the Cold Shoulder to the world.
She had let fall a bunch of flowers from her frowsy dress upon the pulpit desk and had left them there.
She raised a frowsy head from its pillow, put a dirty hand to her eyes to shade them from the sun entering the darkened room by the open door, smiled fatuously upon her husband.
We were at once shown into a frowsy apartment which served as parlor, sitting-room and parental dormitory.
Otherwise in these gray, frowsystreets spring, summer, autumn, winter were all the same to the grey, frowsy people.
We left the tram and the main thoroughfare, and turned into frowsy streets, peopled with frowsy men and women and raucous with the bickering play of frowsy children.
The Russian moujik in winter has his frowsy sheepskin coat, and the Russian prince imitates it in costly furs.
Their dress is no longer that frowsyparody of richer women's frippery which shocked observant foreigners a generation ago.
It was very narrow, and while infants played in the unclean gutters, frowsy women discussed domestic or more exciting matters with women on the opposite side.
What matter though some of them are a bit frowsy and not over-clean?
In defiance of immemorial habit, being himself considerably excited and confused, he stalked straight in, half hopping, and sat down in his frowsychair at his frowsy desk, with his cap at the back of his head.
I inquired, with some faint show of cheerfulness, of the frowsy "laundress," a Dickensy lady with an appalling squint and a husky voice suggestive of the bottle.
