Every one is ill dressed, but no one is ragged, and among the undersized homely folk of the lower classes there is no such poverty-stricken shabbiness as shocks and insults the sight in New York.
I have not seen one handsomely dressed woman as yet in France; the best had always an air of shabbiness about her, which no milliner's daughter at home would shew.
There was, of course, that queer mixture of shabbiness and luxury about the old place and the mode of living that is characteristic of Virginia.
For the first time Throckmorton noticed the extreme shabbiness of Barn Elms.
The room was seedy and shabby, but with a different seediness and shabbiness from that of Heron Hall; for there was an attempt to conceal its loss of freshness with antimacassars, large in size and hideous of pattern.
Evidences of industry, enterprise and thrift everywhere, instead of the general poverty, unthrift and shabbiness of the old rum-time.
Everywhere throughout the State the results of this way of life was to be seen--in the general poverty of the people, and in the shabbiness of all their surroundings.
You shall see shabbiness and the spice of life hand-in-hand; and, I dare say, you will find that the figurative dinner of herbs is not utterly destitute of a flavor of piquancy.
Seeing her in a shabby dress, seated in the shabby parlor, one instinctively felt that shabbiness was not so utterly unbearable after all, and acknowledged that it had a brightness of its own.
Even from the closet door it whispered that there was more shabbiness hidden in the depths.
If your shabbinesscomes because of your father's sacrifice for his country it is something to be proud of," Dick answered.
The shabbiness of this place actually beats Ireland, and that is a strong word.
It is laid out in courts and galleries, the mouldy doors of which are decorated with twopenny pictures of favourite saints and martyrs; and so great is the shabbiness and laziness, that you might fancy yourself in a convent in Italy.
She had seen that his quick native eyes had taken in at a glance all the bare shabbiness of the room, but he spoke to her as if he were speaking to the little daughter of a rajah, and pretended that he observed nothing.
It was evening, and the shabbiness of the apartment was all the gloomier for the light of a small kerosene lamp standing on the bare deal table.
Perhaps my mother alone, of us newcomers, appreciated the shabbiness of the little apartment, and realized that for her there was as yet no laying down of the burden of poverty.
I acknowledged that her sense of superiority was well-founded, and retired farther into my corner, for the first time conscious of my shabbiness and lowliness.
And, by the side of George Cannon on the platform, she was aware of her shabbinessand of her girlish fragility.
For, whereas Patsy could carry off her shabbiness before masculine eyes, she had neither the desire nor the fortitude to brave the keener, more critical gaze of her own sex.
She was wholly aware of every inch of her appearance--the shabbiness of her brown Norfolk suit, the rakishness of her boyish brown beaver hat, and the vagabond gloves.
He was annoyed at a certain green coat which his new clerk brought with him, and he watched its increasing shabbiness with a sort of childish pleasure.
She knew he had been distressed over the shabbiness of her surroundings, knocking about with that road company, and she was afraid that in spite of the assurance she had then given him, he was still worried about her.
Irene already knew the worst there was to know of the shabbiness of the home, and Audrey's heart was at rest.
Therefore I did not receive him coldly, because of the shabbiness of his coat, and the misery of his appearance.
I was there unknown; and in a congregation of English peasantry, the one-half of whom were in their smock-frocks, there were none to observe the shabbiness of my garments.
Sportsmen like you don't know the small tricks and shabbiness we others are forced to use.
For all that, I knew your hatred of shabbiness and wrong.
The consciousness of shabbiness had not yet frayed the elbows of my soul.
Never since have I approached the intellectual achievement of fourteen; but the shabbiness of my motives was greater than that of my costume.
I shall use it in Catania to conceal the shabbiness of my other clothes.
The face in the darkness started away from the window as he looked at it, as if his own robust health and the light that dwelt about him startled its pinched shabbiness into solitude.
Among the other defects attributed to the character of Henry the Fifth is a degree of shabbiness towards the people in his employ, whom he is said to have paid very inadequately for their services.
