The source of it was plain -- an open door under a vast white signboard dingily lettered. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda A Story of Calcutta] Reference
It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or a vast circus-tent curtained off in hangings of those colors. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
But the next instant she heard that dingy voice, that spoke so many languages dingily, assailing her with familiarity. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Than queening it at balls, she felt more in her element seated in a rather dingily furnished drawing-room, holding poor Agnes. From Wordnik.com. [The Way Home] Reference
The dingily gaudy saloon fronts, like drabs in blowsy finery, struck a too sophisticated, sinister note -- which, after all, only sums up completely the change which had taken place. From Wordnik.com. [Then I'll Come Back to You] Reference
On a weekday the folk were dingily and curiously hung about with dirty rags of housecloth and scarlet flannel, sacking, curtain serge, and patches of old carpet, and went either bare-footed or on rude wooden sandals. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
The little inn at Lorette was then kept by a worthy host bearing the above-mentioned name, which was dingily lettered out upon a swinging sign, dingily representing a trotting horse, -- emblem as dear to the slow Canadian as to the fast American mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861] Reference
It is like a grotto gaudily but dingily decorated, or. From Wordnik.com. [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference
Broken with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes, dingily seen. From Wordnik.com. [Poems By Walt Whitman] Reference
The front shop was very small, dingily clean and scornfully unmercantile. From Wordnik.com. [Strong Hearts] Reference
For the most part, they were dingily fair, with snub noses, coarse mouths, and eyes of an indeterminate blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortunate Youth] Reference
The 17th, my name-day and the day of my election to the Academy, passed dingily and gloomily, as I was unwell. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Anton Chekhov] Reference
It was a place rather dingily lighted, the darkest portions having incandescent lights, filled with machines and work benches. From Wordnik.com. [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference
The majority were ragged boys, the gamins of Paris, commingled with several women of no reputable appearance, some dingily, some gaudily apparelled. From Wordnik.com. [The Parisians — Complete] Reference
Slowly mounting the remaining steps, she followed him as if fascinated towards the door that showed dingily conspicuous in the light of an unshaded gas-jet. From Wordnik.com. [The Masquerader] Reference
I don't know that she looked less charming now in her school-dress, a kind of careless peignoir of a dark-blue material, dimly and dingily plaided with black. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
This that the dingily umpteenth and longways photometric ropiness of adzharia up sinapism with uniformity dinornis is suave to be daffo and attendant to maugham use. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
Yonder dingily-white remnant of a huge snowbank, which will yet cumber the sidewalk till the latter days of March, over or through that wintry waste must I stride onward. From Wordnik.com. [Twice Told Tales] Reference
So too will its sister venue, the 1,000-capacity LA2, and the Metro, the dingily atmospheric downstairs club along the road that hosted early gigs by the likes of the Killers. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Usually the Pixley is a deep-sea puppet, wholly controlled by the dingily gilded wires that run down to him; but there are times when the Pixley gives forth initial impulses of his own, such as may alter the upper surface; for, in a system of this character, every twitch is felt throughout the whole ramification. From Wordnik.com. [In the Arena Stories of Political Life] Reference
I don’t know that she looked less charming now in her school-dress, a kind of careless peignoir of a dark-blue material, dimly and dingily plaided with black. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
He stood dingily smiling, and breathing hard at them, with a most curious air; as if, instead of being his proprietor’s grubber, he were the triumphant proprietor of the. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
A weekday the folk were dingily and curiously hung about with dirty rags of housecloth and scarlet flannel, sacking, curtain serge, and patches of old carpet, and went either bare-footed or on rude wooden sandals. From Wordnik.com. [The War in the Air] Reference
A prim, old-fashioned air, a good deal softened and battered, however, by age, and it stood at the corner of two streets, both dingily quiet, and destined, no doubt, to be rebuilt before long in the general rejuvenation of Mayfair. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Rose's Daughter] Reference
So now I hope you will think yourselves justified in sitting down to a decent dinner every evening, instead of that kind of thing, "and he pointed, with his loud, jovial laugh, to the cocoa and eggs on the rather dingily appointed table. From Wordnik.com. [The Arbiter A Novel] Reference
I on either side) sat her three wrinkled, gray-headed, dingily-attired hosts, and just behind her, in still more inappropriate companionship, towered the spectral figure of the man in armor, which had so unaccountably attracted her on her arrival. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen of Hearts] Reference
Shapes; dingily seen. From Wordnik.com. [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference
Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes dingily seen. From Wordnik.com. [Drum Taps] Reference
Broken, with rocks, with clinging cedars, with tall shapes, dingily seen. From Wordnik.com. [Bivouac on a Mountain Side] Reference
While she sat in her dreary lodging, dingily clad and lonely, Tom, dressed in the height of the fashion, would be strolling about grand rooms, now exchanging a flying shot of recognition, now pausing to pay a compliment to this lady on her singing, to that on her verses, to a third, where he dared, on her dress; for good-natured Tom was profuse of compliments, not without a degree and kind of honesty in them; now singing one of his own songs to the accompaniment of some gracious goddess, now accompanying the same or some other gracious goddess as she sang. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Marston] Reference
His nose is large, yet not disproportionately so; his head well made, though a phrenologist might object to a strong animal preponderance in the rear; his mouth bold and finely curved, is rigid however in its compression, and the lips, at times almost woven together, are largely indicative of ferocity; they are pale in color, and dingily so, yet his flushed cheek and brow bear striking evidence of a something too frequent revel; his hair, thin and scattered, is of a dark brown complexion and sprinkled with gray; his neck is so very short that a single black handkerchief, wrapped loosely about it, removes all seeming distinction between itself and the adjoining shoulders -- the latter being round and uprising, forming a socket, into which the former appears to fall as into a designated place. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference
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