10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FROWSIEST»
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As a matter of fact, it is one of the frowsiest looking joints I've ever seen. Where
did you get your wall paper? MRS. RITTENHOUSE. Why, I — SPALDING. You're
letting the place run down, and what's the result? You're not getting the class of ...
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The Canadian Monthly and National Review
the “ hottest, dullest, drowsiest, frowsiest, and least courtly of courts;” and nothing
would induce the slave-owning Chandos to leave his Pashalik in Park Lane for
that “frowsy” abode of royalty, “ if it were not for our lovely— what is her name ?
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The Contemporary Review
The Court of St. James must be sadly changed from what it was in the days of the
Georges ; for we learn, with dismay, that it is the " hottest, dullest, drowsiest,
frowsiest, and least courtly of courts ; " and nothing would induce the slave-
owning ...
It is true that his drawing was weak, but then his tea was strong; and when it
came to general conversation of an artistic order, he could certainly hold his own
with the frowsiest and dirtiest looking master of the brush that ever brought his
hair ...
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My Brother Larry: The Stooge in the Middle
Healy, whom you will remember as the comedian with the shiny frontal bald spot,
is leading his jazz band while three of the frowsiest numskulls ever assembled
are trying to put over, with the familiar flourishes of show business, a ballad about
...
Morris Moe Feinberg, G. P. Skratz, 1984
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A Year in New York, 1926-1927
Saw “Rains” in Oct. but DID NOT LIKE IT AT ALL. Cheapest, frowsiest play
imaginable“Two Girls Wanted” at the Little Theatre with Nydia Westman was
sweet. The Little Church Around the Corner” was lovely even on the drizzly,
dreary, icy day ...
William S. and Mary A. Hendon, 2010
... full of oaths and blasphemy ; miserable shop-boys, with pockets full of stolen
coin ; burglars and thieves ; drunkards and blacklegs ; rags of the frowsiest
covering rogues of the blackest and deepest dyes. The patrons, sellers of strong
drink.
Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, 1876
The next morning, Mrs. Sharp, then a blooming abigail of three-and-thirty,
entered her lady's private room,and said : “ It' you please, my lady, there's the
frowsiest, shabbiest man you ever saw outside, and he's told Mr. Warren as tho ...
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Mr. Gilfil's Love Story
George Eliot. The next morning, Mrs Sharp, then a blooming abigail of three-and-
thirty, entered her lady's private room and said, 'If you please, my lady, there's the
frowsiest, shabbiest man you ever saw, outside, and he's told Mr Warren as the ...
And now, though we have seen no Ararat, and only the frowsiest of doves, it
seems that the flood is done. A dawn shows the sky all blue. The mounting
radiance. The whole earth seems to stir, as though spring had fallen in mid-
November.
Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen, 1921
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FROWSIEST»
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