This is the debt that society pays for its occasional lapses in finance, just as its lapses in matters of taste are paid for by the enriching of those who provide it with rubbishy stuff to read, or rubbishy shows in picture palaces.
We've the most rubbishy set of old books at St. Cyprian's, and want some new ones badly.
I laid it yesterday morning with some old rubbishy stuff I found on your floor, sir.
There was a dirty lot of rubbishy paper lying on the floor beside it, so I took that as well, and used it up for my morning fires.
What do I care if she smashes a lot of rubbishy plates, or cuts a Murillo into strips, or makes mince-meat of her lace?
They say you established a photographer in your house that he might take views of the garden and portraits of the horses, and all the time you never looked into a single book unless it were some silly almanac or rubbishy novel.
Oh, I'm not talking aboutrubbishy books and pictures now!
I'm quite a passable nineteen as fellows go, and the rest's all rubbishy detail.
The church tells the same story; it is now a tumble-down rubbishy place; it is partaking in the fate of all those places which were formerly a sort of rendezvous for persons who had things to buy and things to sell.
Illustration: "You have only one idea in your head, and that is writing rubbishy stories that nobody will ever want to buy!
A plain straw bonnet, with only a ribbon across it, is in reality in better taste than rubbishy birds or butterflies, or tinsel ornaments.
He became angry, and remarked that he had found that all white men who had lived in foreign countries for a few years accepted the rubbishy dictum of natives regarding sporting matters of any kind as infallible.
For the first time in her life Mrs. Pratt had wielded the blue pencil, tearing the rubbishy proof-paper in the energy with which she did so.
I give this pettifogging tradesman the privilege of publishing my novel in his rubbishy periodical and he dares to dictate terms to me!
At thisrubbishy speech, the tears, for the first time, came into her eyes.
The surest recommendation in art circles is getting out a book or giving a rubbishy lecture.
What a set of rubbishy old fobs and dowagers there is here anyway.
You know they say he has eight hundred thousand a year--and spends nothing, except on some rubbishy old books.
It was very finely wrought, but in the middle hung a rubbishy broken medallion of gold.
I don't think it a rubbishy thing at all," said Viviette.
It's a rubbishy thing, dear, but somehow it would give me a little interest in life.
I remember when I used to stay at Fairacre in the old days Stella was always reading some rubbishy old fathers, or tragedies, or wild German stories.
He says I'd better give him a billet on my run; he thinks it would be much jollier than spoiling his eyes over rubbishy Eastern pot-hooks.
Take any worthless, rubbishy article you like--a piece of old rag, for example.
Infinitely superior was this delightfully natural, manly style of feeding, than all the rubbishy artificial formality of the decently appointed meals served at the Bunk, thought he scornfully.
You won't find any of the drawling, face-pulling, rubbishy melodies worked up to a point of agony in some places of worship countenanced in the Catholic Church.
