Max Bedacht was not the kind of frowsy, self-assertive Communist most Congressmen were accustomed to encountering.    From Wordnik.com.  [On being called a bigot and/or racist] Reference

Even if they are frowsy and low, I am sorry for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret] Reference

At his heels a crowd of loafers, frowsy women and dogs.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference

Pretty little thing; not at all frowsy; rather damnable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

Men had staggered by them, and women too, frowsy and besotted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference

The frowsy housemaid who brought up my meals was anything but inspiring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanny Goes to War] Reference

The others, the typical slum-dwellers, miss the frowsy warmth of the slum.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference

To have dress and hair and expression a frowsy and pitiful copy of the latest.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 26, September, 1880] Reference

Kitty Oppenheimer had a flat, pretty face, a frowsy dress and dark, thick hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stallion Gate]

He swung his heels up on the seat, and burrowed a frowsy head into the cushions.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thirty-Nine Steps] Reference

Her sailor-soul would not allow her to leave the lapstreak in a frowsy condition.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference

Red lamps were burning inside the wineshop, where men reclined on frowsy couches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Door Through Space] Reference

Ross without a moment's hesitation, while Tom Meeks nodded his frowsy head energetically.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World in Ten Days] Reference

The goat slid along until he came up beside a lion, on whose back a frowsy young person was riding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference

One table was surrounded by a boisterous group in the centre of which was a fat man in a frowsy wig.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

She had let fall a bunch of flowers from her frowsy dress upon the pulpit desk and had left them there.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference

It revealed nothing but the common squalor of a low saloon — white faces, sleepy eyes, and frowsy heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greenmantle] Reference

No gentle blood in him, no hospitality, not even pleasant language, nor a good new oath in his frowsy pate!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone] Reference

The floors were regularly swept, the beds made, the frowsy "general" gratified by a weekly "tip" on pay-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

Three other doors on the same landing were now partly open and blocked with the heads of frowsy inquisitive women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mr. Wrenn] Reference

Trinity, where he has installed in “a couple of frowsy dog-holes” overlooking the garden of old Dr. Jenkins, the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference

Swallows and frowsy little sparrows flit from their nests, built in the very hands of the golden goddess of Liberty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

"All right; we'll stop it," said the ticket-taker, who still held to the frowsy young person on the back of the lion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Christmas Tree Cove] Reference

He now works all day in his Net-loft: and I wonder how he keeps as well as he is, shut up there from fresh air and among frowsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference

Some frowsy, ill-clad women had come out of their houses, and, with children clinging to their skirts, looked on with idle curiosity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference

In spite of her protest of not caring, Lavinia's heart went pit-a-pat when she entered the hot, frowsy, greasy air of the coffee house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

The stewards were dirty and desponding, the serving inhospitable, the cooking dirty and greasy, the food scanty, the table-linen frowsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Chersonese and the way thither] Reference

In truly Oriental fashion they completed the ceremonial of obeisance and fealty by throwing dust upon their already frowsy enough heads.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

A countryman, a clumsy, frowsy fellow, in a terrible fright, stopped under Germain's window out of breath and turned at bay on his pursuer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

A little bewildered, she divested her head and shoulders of a frowsy straw thatch and stood erect, shaking it off from her single short garment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

You look up a frowsy little courtyard, the walls of which are more graceful than plumb, and you see a horse's head sticking out into the etching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking-Stick Papers] Reference

The Yankee who knows only the forlorn aureoles of wire and greased gauze surrounding the sainted heads of Lowell factory-girls, and the frowsy ones of New.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference