Bananas with their great ragged leaves, like the tattered habiliments of an empress in adversity, grew close up to the house.
I am strongly disposed to linger with him, for I am drawing a portrait as well as a blunt pencil and a tattered thesaurus will allow.
This morning, his tattered old black bag was by his feet, and my grandfather was obviously shaken.
This morning, his tattered old black bag was by his feet, and my grandfather was obviously shaken.
" At the wooden counters up front, laden with thick catalogues in tattered binders, , people would haggle for switches, resistors, capacitors, and sometimes the latest memory chips.
Sarah included a pair of photos to prove her miracle, showing a single tattered, dirty Converse sneaker in one, and a pair of spectacularly white ones in the other.
On either side of the road, I saw chains of little villages sprouting here and there, like discarded toys among the rocks, broken mud houses and huts consisting of little more than four wooden poles and a tattered cloth as a roof.
Suffering and tattered her heart was when he would not look astray his work To catch a glimpse of the girl behind him, Darkness covered in her golden hair.
、(Victoriana) Tattered glamour and washed silks at Céline, a waitress fit for a Manet painting at Chanel and Egon Schiele-style waifs at Alexander McQueen: the week was infused with the Belle Époque.
Once he had us inside the dimly lit, bare living room, Karim locked the front door, pulled the tattered sheets that passed for curtains.
I picked my way through the dwindling crowd, the lame beggars dressed in layers of tattered rags, the vendors with rugs on their shoulders, the cloth merchants and butchers closing shop for the day.
He was American, just like the friendly, longhaired men and women we always saw hanging around in Kabul, dressed in their tattered, brightly colored shirts.
She had stepped out abruptly from the roadside in front of us, and although the rickshaw man had swerved, her tattered padded waistcoat, unbuttoned and billowing in the wind, had caught on the shaft.
The poor man thanked his brother, and wrapping the cow's hoof in his tattered cloak began walking back to his house.
He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose; and he was hunched, as if with age or weakness, and wore a huge old tattered sea-cloak with a hood that made him appear positively deformed.
His clothes were torn and tattered.
" Cinderella always wore tattered clothes and worked all day doing housework.
A torn flag upon the ground, the tricolor was waving above the bayonets, and on the throne lay the poor lad with the pale glorified countenance, his eyes turned towards the sky, his limbs writhing in the death agony, his breast bare, and his poor tattered clothing half hidden by the rich velvet embroidered with silver lilies.
