And Walsh and Felderhof morphed from down-at-the-heels prospectors into lucky tycoons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fever In The Jungle] Reference

The result was a sort of down-at-the-heels elegance that Lauren found almost touching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memory of Fire]

We entered a dingy, down-at-the-heels establishment and the governor asked for the phone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dealings] Reference

We had a fabulous lunch at a down-at-the-heels looking place called Un Zebre a Montmartre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-09-01] Reference

There was always the down-at-the-heels IM, or the occasional Grand-Master to watch out for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rittenhouse Square: excert from work-in-progress] Reference

This was at the heart of the megalopolis, a down-at-the-heels, mostly black and brown part of town.    From Wordnik.com.  [Can Los Angeles Escaped The Fires?] Reference

Thieves and escaped prisoners were not supposed to stroll out like a pair of down-at-the-heels gentry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eagle And The Nightingale]

When I first started shopping at Atwater, the neighborhood was blue-collar and definitely down-at-the-heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spider Bones] Reference

Not many neighborhoods in New York are properly suitable for a down-at-the-heels self-styled fashionista/socialite.    From Wordnik.com.  [cat’s meow] Reference

The neighborhood, once the exclusive preserve of the Vanderbilts and Astors, had become seedy and down-at-the-heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Be a Rockefeller] Reference

One player bragged that their fraudulent appraisals had inflated the values of an entire down-at-the-heels neighborhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloody Toto Guilty of Mortgage Fraud] Reference

The unfabled Sonora Building, which from the outside occupies a rung immediately above a down-at-the-heels warehouse/office building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-10-01] Reference

One multidenominational ministry, M.U.S.C.L., is working with utility companies to help pay the bills of its down-at-the-heels neighbors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diane Sawyer's Hometown Bands Together To Face Recession] Reference

The four-lane highway delivered us to the heart of city, a former down-at-the-heels German colony transformed from my last visit a decade ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [India in My Rear-View Mirror] Reference

Jamestown, a down-at-the-heels industrial town 400 miles from New York, once seemed remote from the grim realities of AIDS, but it is remote no more.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Victims' Stories] Reference

Son of a poor parson born in a cross-roads Ontario hamlet, brilliant but erratic student at Dalhousie University, down-at-the-heels insurance agent in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Masques of Ottawa] Reference

The six-wheeled PUMA was hailed by some as far-sighted and trashed by others as little more than down-at-the-heels GM showing its need to feel visionary.    From Wordnik.com.  [Graham Hill: Should We All Just Drive 35?] Reference

The New York Times Magazine's "Consumed" columnist wants us to look around at some of the Crescent City's down-at-the-heels architecture and view it in a new way.    From Wordnik.com.  [J. Michael Welton: Urban Storytelling in New Orleans] Reference

Though the world's big brewers may not be interested in down-at-the-heels countries like Mozambique, over the past couple of years many have sniffed around South Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

By then it had been a down-at-the-heels apartment house for several decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

Here was the best part: in the pocket of down-at-the-heels preacher was a snake.    From Wordnik.com.  [FRC Blog] Reference

The mystique of the down-at-the-heels author always quickens Bolaño's imagination.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planeta Blogs] Reference

The novel introduced Toby Peters, a down-at-the-heels private eye in the 1930s and '40s.    From Wordnik.com.  [post-gazette.com - News] Reference

The woman's spiritual mistake, the reason she is a down-at-the-heels slattern, is that she didn't smell the flowers!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Coakley, 56, grew up in North Adams, a down-at-the-heels mill town in the rural northwestern corner of Massachusetts.    From Wordnik.com.  [TheState.com: The Buzz] Reference

He languishes at the dusty outpost in the down-at-the-heels neighborhood because he has no tribal or political connections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Mill Times | FortMillTime.com - HOMEPAGE] Reference

Another soldier, who became his devoted follower in the later days, had his first sight of Grant at this down-at-the-heels period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers] Reference

Mr. Howells has aptly described Hannibal as a “loafing, out-at-elbows, down-at-the-heels, slaveholding Mississippi river town.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mark Twain]

St. Louis Blues general manager Larry Pleau and coach Andy Murray have made no secret of their plans for the down-at-the-heels franchise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riverfront Times | Complete Issue] Reference

Boy A features a standard teaming of reluctant oldster and troubled youngster - both residents of a down-at-the-heels family-run rest home.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pitch | Complete Issue] Reference

McDormand is a down-at-the-heels governess who can’t hold a job and resorts to the soup kitchens of 1939 London for her sustenance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two movies : Bev Vincent] Reference

They frequent the Bowery and those down-at-the-heels.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sister Carrie: a Novel] Reference

Hence the string of increasingly down-at-the-heels boardinghouses.    From Wordnik.com.  [PopMatters] Reference

"One of those down-at-the-heels, anything-'ll-do sort of places," he described The House.    From Wordnik.com.  [We of the Never-Never] Reference