de Bassompierre had to be appealed to, debts had to be paid, some of them of that dismal and dingy order called "debts of honour;" ignoble plaints and difficulties became frequent.
Clean collars were in vogue; the ordinary dingy woollen classe-dress was exchanged for something lighter and clearer.
He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.
Woodchuck wore a suit of dingy yellow and lived in a hole in the ground.
Toad smoothed down his dingy white waistcoat and told Johnny Chuck what a foolish thing fear is.
"If it hadn't the New Year would have seemed just as dingy and worn out as the old.
Heathcliff stayed to speak to him, and I entered the kitchen—a dingy, untidy hole; I daresay you would not know it, it is so changed since it was in your charge.
I took my dingy volume by the scroop, and hurled it into the dog-kennel, vowing I hated a good book.
Molly pushed her dingy garlands away, ashamed of such poor attempts beside these perfect works of nature, and Jill stretched out her hand involuntarily, as she said, forgetting her exotics, "Give me just one to smell of, it is so woodsy and delicious.
It has a dingy cover.
There they were, the dingy bank-notes and the bright sovereigns, and he counted them out on the table—only a hundred and sixteen pounds in two years, after all the pinching.
There was a coarse, dingy man, of whose face Tom had some vague recollection, sitting in his father's chair, smoking, with a jug and glass beside him.
unless, indeed, he took down a dusty row of volumes with gray-paper backs and dingy labels—the volumes of an old Cyclopaedia which he had never disturbed.
She was very busy getting her clothes ready, and they were very ugly, dingy clothes, and she had them always littering about, and the sewing-machine seemed to whir—on and on all day and most of the night.
I do not suppose he had ever noticed how dingy was the paper on the wall of the room in which on my first visit I found him.
Near him stood a dingy gipsy caravan, and beside it a man was sitting on a bucket turned upside down, very busy smoking and staring into the wide world.
"I know it's a—shabby, dingy little place," he sobbed forth at last, brokenly: "not like—your cosy quarters—or Toad's beautiful hall—or Badger's great house—but it was my own little home—and I was fond of it—and I went away and forgot all about it—and then I smelt it suddenly—on the road, when I called and you wouldn't listen, Rat—and everything came back to me with a rush—and I wanted it!
If you've used a dingy liner, you could experience redness, itchiness, or, in extreme cases, conjunctivitis.
Having debuted during the first few months of the Giuliani administration, the show keeps things dingy and menacing way past the point at which the city itself had exfoliated its grimier layers.
If you've used a dingy liner, you could experience redness, itchiness, or, in extreme cases, conjunctivitis.
