10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FROWSTINESS»
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... influence of the fresh air, but as the cold season passes away, the entire winter
wardrobe of a family is packed away altogether in some room, and there, all
through the heat of the summer, it lies in a foul heap of frowstiness and impurity.
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Chambers concise dictionary
[19c] □ frowstiness n. "frowsty adj (frowstier, frowstiest) stuffy; stale-smelling,
frowsy or frowzy /'frauzi/ >adj (frowsier, frowsiest, frowzier, frowziest) 1 said of
someone's appearance: untidy, dishevelled or slovenly. 2 said of an atmosphere:
stuffy; ...
... clouds which drifted slowly before a quiet breeze; the hills were alternately
black and silver; the air was fresh. The feeling of fatigue, impatience, and
frowstiness which had suddenly afflicted him in Copenhagen and increased in
the plane,
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Scenes of Shame: Psychoanalysis, Shame, and Writing
After meeting the economist John Maynard Keynes and his Cambridge
homosexual set, Lawrence describes his overpowering feelings of disgust: the "
smell of rottenness, marsh-stagnancy" and the "horrible sense of frowstiness, so
repulsive, ...
Joseph Adamson, Hilary Clark, 1999
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Days of God: The Revolution in Iran and Its Consequences
Laid across that beautiful town was some personality that expressed itself in
straight roads crossing at right angles, mosques turned into mere works of art,
and all the frowstiness of an overtaken modernity. It was uneducated or even
illiterate, ...
Elizabeth developed an unexpected talent for “home-making,” and fussed a good
deal over the installation in spite of George's light satire. But they were both only
too happy to get away from the frowstiness of Soho to a clean modern flat.
frowstiness, so repulsive, as if it came from deep inward dirt – a sort of sewer –
deep in men like K[eynes] and B[irrell] and D[uncan] G[rant] . . . You must wrench
away and start a new life. B. and D.G. are done for, I think – done for for ever.
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Marriage A-la-mode: A Re-view of Hogarth's Narrative Art
... melancholy and frowstiness succeeds. Images of painful touch predominate in
the aggressive and scornful atmosphere of the quack's laboratory. An aura of
complacency pervades the sanguine, melodious atmosphere of the fourth picture
.
Robert L. S. Cowley, William Hogarth, 1983
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Decoding International Law: Semiotics and the Humanities
136 For example, Verloc's hat and heavy overcoat, which he wears even inside
the house, are symbols of his physical and mental “frowstiness.”137 People think
he wears his coat inside because he likes the outdoor life, but it is due to his ...
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Fateful Beauty: Aesthetic Environments, Juvenile ...
The homes where these children were reared were cheerful; Victorian
frowstiness had been turned out of doors. The walls were distempered in light
colours, the furniture was made of unstained wood. . . . Behind this simplicity
there was an ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FROWSTINESS»
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Ecstasy, Hampstead Theatre, London
... waft like a dismal whiff of damp from the cramped Kilburn bedsit that is evoked in all its forlorn frowstiness by Alison Chitty's excellent design. «Independent, Mar 11»
