Her own shabby-genteel clothing fit in perfectly here, giving her no cause for embarrassment. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
"I look, and to be frank, my dear boy, I must say that you look more shabby-genteel than otherwise.". From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
"Pleasant," the phouka said, looking around at the boulevard trees, the bits of lawn, and the shabby-genteel old houses. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
"I am about to go away by your train," he said, without waiting for me to speak or remarking my shabby-genteel expression of heroism. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 33, December, 1873] Reference
Reaching the door of the first on her list, she rang and was shown into a small drawing-room, shabby-genteel in its furniture and ornaments. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 19, May, 1859] Reference
The Faubourg Saint-Germain may have its barriers also, but these are less ‘telling’ to the eyes and imagination of the ‘shabby-genteel.’. From Wordnik.com. [Within a Budding Grove] Reference
“Well, nor do I; someone showed it to me,” she said, then pitched her voice higher and endowed it with a shabby-genteel, fraightfully naice accent. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
William Truedale lived on a shabby-genteel side street of a neighbourhood that had started out to be fashionable but had been defeated in its ambitions. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Thou Gavest] Reference
In the kind of shabby-genteel family that I am talking about there is far more consciousness of poverty than in any working-class family above the level of the dole. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
On the other hand the children of shabby-genteel families could not be blamed if they grew up with a hatred of the working class, typified for them by prowling gangs of. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Raimberge's was at the opposite end of the corridor, with a chestful of trousseau, a spinning wheel, and whatever else pertained to a young girl of shabby-genteel birth. From Wordnik.com. [Three Hearts and Three Lions]
She might have elaborated on the subject, but the cab had just turned down the shabby-genteel street that housed her home and surgery and was pulling up at the front door. From Wordnik.com. [The Serpent's Shadow]
The shabby-genteel middle-class schoolmaster of the. From Wordnik.com. [Anticipations Of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human life and Thought] Reference
Such objects, with few exceptions, are shabby-genteel people. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
The family had lived for some time in a shabby-genteel house on Beacon. From Wordnik.com. [The Tangled Threads] Reference
There are relatively a large proportion of shabby-genteel equipages at Paris. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of Europe] Reference
Though it may look well at first it soon shows its quality of shabby-genteel. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Home] Reference
Good-by to our miserable shifts and shabby-genteel lodgings and turned dresses. From Wordnik.com. [Winter Evening Tales] Reference
We knew nothing about the matter; he grew more and more shabby-genteel every day. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
While he sat there spell-bound, a shabby-genteel man entered and sat down beside him. From Wordnik.com. [Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure] Reference
French peasants will not set about the day's labour in smart or shabby-genteel clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Roof of France] Reference
Tom saw a shabby-genteel sort of person, whose back was towards him, directing a letter. From Wordnik.com. [Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life] Reference
He had sat by, and let this shabby-genteel doctor, years older than the girl, walk away with her. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Point] Reference
Now he was a landowner's son, and he could make the shabby-genteel boys of the town envious of him. From Wordnik.com. [Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 02] Reference
On consideration, we remember to have occasionally seen two shabby-genteel men conversing together on. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
In the course of it, I gathered that my shabby-genteel friend was going to Revel to attend a 'orse-race. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Thor] Reference
It would be difficult to name any particular part of town as the principal resort of shabby-genteel men. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
The baker was standing behind his counter, disputing the items of a bill with a shabby-genteel young woman. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Audley's Secret] Reference
It is a deceitful liquid that black and blue reviver; we have watched its effects on many a shabby-genteel man. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
The shabby-genteel, half-pay captain, lost in the whirl of London, here luxuriated into a dignified ease of manner that. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
We were once haunted by a shabby-genteel man; he was bodily present to our senses all day, and he was in our mind's eye all night. From Wordnik.com. [Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people] Reference
He finished dressing, putting on his discriminatingly chosen shabby-genteel clothes with a care for the effect he intended them to produce. From Wordnik.com. [The Dawn of a To-morrow] Reference
He turned at last into a narrow, quiet street, and going up to the door of a shabby-genteel house, applied the knocker with considerable vigour. From Wordnik.com. [Fighting the Flames] Reference
So many had white faces, dark-circled eyes, shabby-genteel clothing, and just a commonplace fairness, that in the throng it was difficult to discover distinguishing attributes. From Wordnik.com. [Winding Paths] Reference
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