The ambassador seems to intend some little state in his arrangements; but, no doubt, the establishment compares shabbily enough with those of the legations of other great countries, and with the houses of the English aristocracy.
Having neglected to do so, I remember little more than a confusion of unwashed andshabbily dressed people, intermixed with some smarter figures, but, on the whole, presenting a mobbish appearance such as we never see in our own country.
The shabbily attired man patiently awaited an answer, his eyes fixed upon the man before him.
The palace is about two hundred and fifty years old, and looks as if it had never been a very cheerful place; most shabbily and scantily furnished, moreover, and as chill as any cellar.
Is a bulky affair, shabbily built of sticks, weeds and grass, piled into a promiscuous heap, generally located in bushes or low trees.
The nests are generally very shabbily built and so nearly flat on top that the eggs will frequently roll out.
Firm in her belief that Marian had written the disquieting letter, Jane was fairly sure that the former's guilty conscience would warn her against making a protest to Mrs. Weatherbee that her cousin had been shabbily treated.
Holly wheeled about to confront a rather shabbily dressed man--a stranger, walking toward Shambler.
The other--that of a shabbily dressed man--was not familiar to him.
Seeing Carrington draw nigh, the coachman touched his hat respectfully, while the little old man, who was rather shabbily dressed, stepped quickly around the corner of the platform.
Norah's grandpa was no less a person than the shabbily dressed old man he had seen at the station that afternoon.
As they went out they met a young man, shabbily clad and apparently poorly fed.
There were also two very plainly and shabbily dressed women about thirty-five years of age, who were always to be found there on Saturday nights, drinking with any man who was willing to pay for them.
This man looked about sixty-five years of age, and was very shabbily dressed.
Haggard and pale, shabbily or raggedly dressed, their boots broken and down at heel, they slouched past.
Notwithstanding the cold weather, there was a great crowd of shabbily dressed people, many of whom had not had a really good meal for months.
There was also a shabbily dressed, semi-drunken man in a battered bowler hat who stood on the inner edge of the crowd, almost in the ring itself, with folded arms and an expression of scorn.
The apartments were small, shabbily furnished, inconvenient, and expensive; but the situation was irreproachable, and the haughty Lydia could only exist in an irreproachable situation.
Some distant relations undertook to clothe me; and I was dressed in those days about as shabbily as I have been dressed ever since.
He has acceded, however, but much to the disgust of many of his friends, some of whom think he has behaved shabbily in abandoning the Whigs, who supported him, and who had supported Canning at his utmost need.
The King came to town, and had a levee and drawing-room, the former of which was very numerously, the othershabbily attended.
He treated his aunt and sister very shabbily till his sudden death cut short his career.
Chapter XIV The young Spartan's legs shook under him when Mihalevitch conducted him into the rather shabbily furnished drawing-room of the Korobyins, and presented him to them.
And he felt that no woman who was not either shabbily perverse, or a fool, could misinterpret her.
He was thinly and very shabbily clad, and was shivering with cold.
Mary did look sweet, though she was shabbily dressed and very frightened.
They were to be smaller than I, and younger-looking, very shabbily dressed, but nice, and very admiring.
She remembers how shabbily she treated me,' he thought, 'and she's too proud to show it.
In the presence of these friendly, shabbily dressed strangers he felt, for the first time since leaving home, really happy and at ease.
A faded, shabbily dressed woman sat on one of the unpainted benches of the shady stoop, holding a baby in her arms.
He was rather shabbily dressed, and his red face indicated possible indulgence in intoxicating liquor.
He had accomplished about eight miles, when he was overtaken by a shabbily dressed traveler riding on the back of a fine horse.
Hence the bitter fear and humiliation she felt as she drudged shabbily on in Manchester House, hiding herself as much as possible from public view.
She brooded her days shabbily away in Manchester House, busy with housework drudgery.
And then, on Friday evening, thin and alert he hovered behind the counter, his coat shabbily buttoned over his narrow chest, his face agitated.
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