10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FROWSIER»
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frowsier in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
The Last Days of a Rake
... for at least De Quincey produced a great literary work out of his habit. All
Lankin did was smoke, eat opium, drink and carouse with frowsier and frowsier
expatriate Englishwomen—runaway wives, penurious prostitutes—sickly
sybarites all.
The street on which he found himself began respectably with small stores and
offices, but grew frowsier and frowsier as the eye moved along the faces of the
tall tenements that lined it as far as one could see. Dirt and disorder flaunted it
from ...
3
Palestine Notes and Other Papers
A frowsier, sorrier crew I never saw ; a crowd of Irish tramps might well have
taken their place, and the change escape detection ; but their very prosaic
character adds to the incongruity of the scene. Again my ideas have undergone
correction, ...
John Wilhelm Rowntree, 1906
4
What to Have for Breakfast
... of the selfsame individual who is let in at night by the aforesaid D. S. Many a
man is confronted in the morning by an untidy, ill-cooked breakfast, a frowsy
woman and a still frowsier baby, and, too often, by querulous winnings and
complaints.
The county court, being the minor (or minimus) of the courts, has naturally a
shabbier, frowsier class of retainers even than the others. As no person familiar
with railways has much difficulty in picking out a driver or fireman, when he sees
him ...
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glas oerwyn .... a da yw r hawl a duw ai rhydil Edm: Prgs 120 IS' Ston Wgn Jfangc
i Wydir Syr Sion Aer Syr Sion Eryr .... b- a duw gadarn ach dwg adref „ „ 124 ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1902
7
Land at last. A novel in three books
... dirty little shops with a plentiful sprinkling of dirtier and frowsier taverns, imbued
as was the whole neighbourhood with a not-to-be explained maritime fiavour,—
as they slipped by these and came into the broad road fringed by pretty gardens,
...
Edmund Hodgson Yates, 1868
... solemn old two-storeyed edifices where the shipping agents and Baltic
merchants of a past generation yet lingered in their retirement, frowsy, dirty little
shops with a plentiful sprinkling of dirtier and frowsier taverns, imbued as was the
whole ...
George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, 1866
In them one often sees, lolling as passengers, a couple of frowsy Chinese, or a
still frowsier Corean. The fare is only eighty kopeks, or one shilling and
eightpence an hour, or over half an hour; and from point to point there are
tenpenny and ...
10
The Wide World Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly of True ...
... tribe on the warpath. They were a miscel1'“! am a] laneous collection of men
and boys, some armed with rifles, '-,but the majority having nothing better than'the
long Moorish gun. A frowsier lot of savages one could hardly hope to see, ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FROWSIER»
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frowsier is used in the context of the following news items.
Theater Review: Cyrano de Bergerac
... a director who started to sniff out something younger, something frowsier and randier and more full-of-heartfelt-baloney—but then drew back. «Vulture, Oct 12»
'Julie & Julia' a satisfying medley of food, relationships and writing
She also adopts or mimics a thicker midsection, frowsier brown hair, a lower voice and the ability to be moved almost to tears by superb food. «Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Aug 09»
