But his eyes were shrewd and bold, and he carried himself with a sort of innate dignity despite the threadbare poorness of patched trousers and hickory shirt, and he tramped the snowy hills coatless with ankles innocent of socks.
The threadbare poorness of his clothes, a thing of which he had never before been conscious, now uncomfortably obtruded itself upon realization.
The work was not a success in spite of its musical qualities, and thepoorness of the libretto helped on its failure.
This is such a Poorness of Spirit, such a despicable Cowardice, such a degenerate abject State of Mind, as one would think Human Nature incapable of, did we not meet with frequent Instances of it in ordinary Conversation.
To prove the poorness of the quality of flour allowed by Boards of Guardians I obtained some of this flour and I also bought some of the best flour sold on the market.
On the poorness of our Palæontological collections.
The photographer has often occasion to deplore the poorness of his light.
It is, of course, in the endeavor to counteract the poorness of the light that so long an exposure is frequently given.
And then, when they got home, very hungry after their toil, Mr. Townsend made another apology for the poorness of his table.
We see him continually extolling poorness of spirit, simplicity, and faith.
We were deploring the poorness of the cattle which remained at our disposal only a few days ago, but the rich capture which these natives have made has given us a welcome change from bone and skin to juicy beef.
And our loneliness and poorness are like Christian's 'burden.
Yes," said Meg; "richness and poorness and goodness and badness and happiness and gladness.
The price was high, twenty francs for each work; and additional drawbacks were the smallness of the type and the poorness of the engravings.
The first dying in infancy through the poorness of Madame Balzac's milk, he was sent to a house on the outskirts of the town and suckled by a foster-mother.
His whole case is full of anomalies, however, and these volumes illustrate it even by the light they throw on a certain poorness of range in most of his correspondents.
Moss is generally a sign of poorness of soil, and sometimes indicates the need of drainage.
No part of the open moor is now covered with trees, nor is it likely, considering the poorness of the soil, that it ever was so covered, although roots and other remains of trees have been found in various parts of it.
