So he stitched and patched and oiled and did the best he could with his shoddy gear, and the best was not enough.
A mattress--a common jute bag stuffed with straw--and a blanket of thin shoddy came first.
His sea-chest was packed and ready, and the mother had gone through it and replaced to the best of her ability some of the shoddy gear which she knew would never stand sea-faring.
But lo and behold, her adorer whisks her off to a little town in New Jersey and the great treaty is sealed in the shoddy parlor of a village parsonage!
A woman may grow shoddyand careless, but she rarely grows oblivious of her uncomeliness.
The shoddy beaux in her home town said that Kedzie's eyes said, "Kiss me quick!
Kedzie wished she had locked her own door--only there was no door, merely a shoddy portière, for there was not room to open a door.
She had known of middle classes where libertinism flourished, had known of licentiousness among the poor shopkeepers, shoddy intriguers in the humble boarding-houses.
Policemen in sandals and dark-blue shoddy cap and cloak looked little less miserable than the peons.
Three policemen in shoddy uniforms, armed with clubs and enormous revolvers sticking out through their short coat-tails, at length appeared, of the same class and seeming little less frightened than the prisoners.
Such persons cannot understand how the Orientals could buy the cheap, shoddy products of the West, manufactured especially for the Eastern market, in preference to their native wares of better quality and vastly greater beauty.
And it is this shoddy of contradiction and infidelity which makes many a man's prosperity, seemingly substantial at first, promising warmth and wear, fall suddenly to pieces, and leave his soul naked to the winds of heaven.
A rusty brown ulster with cap to match, shoddy trousers boasting conspicuous stripes of leaden colour, and patched boots completed the disguise.
As forshoddy celebrity, "up town," to whom Brown of Philadelphia had also referred me, said that my friend had swindled him a short period before.
The sorehead Republicans complain that Lincoln gives them either too littleshoddy or too little nigger.
But madam shoddy does really very little actual harm, all these things being a harmless sort of imbecility.
It did not disseminateshoddy imitations of English plate.
Possibly collectors of another age may find shoddy written over a lengthy period of our modern fitments for illumination.
Who would not gladly perish for his country When, for his sake, her great men stoop so low as The shoddy business!
The gratitude of great men drove me downward, Reduced me to these shoddy coat and trowsers So sad and seedy!
The doctors said it was the shoddy underwear that did for him, pursuing as always the high-mountain Nahala waters in the drenching storms of midwinter.
But it can be demonstrated that imprisonment for debt is the mainstay of such trades as moneylending and credit drapery and all those low trades that make their profits by foisting shoddy luxuries on to working men and their wives.
The shoddy gold watch is returned, the bogus business is thrown back on the exploiter's hands, the company promoter who has annexed the savings of the victim by false promises is sued for damages for deceit.
To spend a life buying and selling lies, dealing in cheap, shoddy shams, or botching one's work, is demoralizing to every element of nobility.
It may be a shoddy thread of wasted hours or lost opportunities that will mar the fabric and mortify the workman forever; or it may be a golden thread which will add to its beauty and luster.
If our Government would rebuke some of our shoddy contractors occasionally, it might work much good.
Within the Hellespont we saw where the original first shoddy contract mentioned in history was carried out, and the "parties of the second part" gently rebuked by Xerxes.
The hat I drew was a stiff, cheap, shoddy hat, as high as a tin camp kettle, which was to take the place of my nobby, soft felt hat that I had paid five dollars of my bounty money for.
On his discharge from the prison the State presents him, with a shoddy suit of clothes (very cheap), buys him a ticket for the town from which he came, and then lets him shift for himself.
No,' continued Mr. Penrose; 'it was not shoddy that Christ came to seek and save.
You can tell at a glance that it is shoddy and quite unfit for wearing.
Here is a factory in which a great many people are making shoddy clothing.
But why are the people making shoddy goods--why don't they make decent clothing, since they can do it quite as well?
Shoddy is sometimes made of old colored woolen rags.
It is not fair to pay the price for an all-new wool material if shoddy and mungo and flocks, which are all old wool and waste, have been used.
One can sometimes discover shoddy mixed with the all-wool fiber because of the color.
Shoddy is one; it is made from old rags, like woolen stockings, flannels, soft underwear; materials which have not been felted together.
Genetically, it is a continuation of the shoddyelement in Coleridge's Shakespeare criticism, a continual bias towards transcendental interpretation of the obvious.
And these disturbances and deviations, rhetoric and the sacrifice of rhythm to shoddy rhyme, appear more often than the thematic outline itself emerges.
To spend one's best years selling cheap, shoddymerchandise will inevitably leave its mark on those who do so.
Employees who work in cheap, shoddy stores or factories soon become tagged all over with the marks of inferiority, the cheap John methods employed in the establishments in which they work and spend their days.
One seldom saw those shoddy and veneer men and women who had neither tradition nor mental culture from which to draw the manner and habit of politeness.
Say, if you was mine I would have a continuous performance right here now," and Uncle Ike run his tongue a couple of times around a dry cigar a friend had given him, and licked the wrapper so it would hold in the shoddy filling.
