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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Well? What can I do for you?" The speaker a scrubby little man wheeled in the rickety office chair to regard some one hesitating on his threshold. The tones were not agreeable; the proprietor of the diminutive, run-down establishment, "The St. Cecilia Music Emporium," was not, for certain well defined reasons, in an amiable mood that morning.
She had lost during the year she described two months' work from illness, due to her run-down condition. This she said, however, was not caused by her work, but by combining with it, in an emergency, the care of the children of a sister, who had been sick. Miss Cotton belonged to a benefit society and through her own illness she had received an allowance of $5 a week.
More than one worn-out and run-down farm had already come into his hands, through the foreclosure of mortgages, at a time of business depression, when his helpless victims could find no sympathizing friends able to save them from ruin. One day, in mid-winter, as Mr. Bacon was cutting wood at his rather poorly furnished wood pile, the tavern-keeper rode up.
We were always ready to back White-when-he's-wanted to run-down, single-handed, any animal in the bush that we liked to put him after wild horses, wild cattle, kangaroos, emus, dingoes, kangaroo-rats we barred nothing, for, if he couldn't beat them for pace, he would outlast them. And then one day he disappeared from the paddock, and we never saw him again.
In the newly married it may be due to a previously existing slight uterine catarrh in a displaced uterus, or it may be a manifestation of a run-down state of the system. In a majority of the newly married, however, the inflammation of the endometrium is probably due to the first efforts at conjugal approach.
He stepped into an elevator chauffeured by a West Indian of the haughtiest blood. The dummy-chucker was suddenly conscious of his tattered garb, his ill-fitting, run-down shoes. He stepped, when they alighted from the lift, as gingerly as though he trod on tacks. A servant in livery, as had been the waiting chauffeur downstairs, opened a door.
Then, all of a sudden, in the middle of a vehement defence of anti-Semitism, to which he had been led by the misdeeds of those "arch-charlatans," Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer, he stopped short, like a run-down clock, and, falling into a chair before the table, buried his face in his arms. There was silence, the more intense for all that had preceded it.
"I'm not a child, and I don't want to be talked to like one." "I didn't mean to annoy you " "Well, you do. You've got no business in a run-down place like this you with your fine clothes and your fine airs. You didn't come here to learn the drug business; you know as well as I do you've got some other motive." There was a truth in that to sting him.
The old warrior looked more ferocious than ever. She nodded. The Colonel's jaws came together with a snap. "By God, sir," he exclaimed to Bob, "we'll take him home, sir! He shall have the best room in Arden, sir, and all the doctors in the county! No gentleman can defend you, my dear," he took her hand, "and be left at run-down hovels on the roadside.
When at last, during a brief withdrawal of Duncan, their fleet under Admiral de Winter attempted a cruise, it was in a run-down condition. The Dutch ships were flat-bottomed and light-draft for navigation in their shallow coastal waters, and generally inferior to British vessels of similar rating, even though the latter were left-overs from the Channel Fleet.
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