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Updated: June 19, 2025
Once the British Minister was to be presented to him and went dressed in his grandest uniform. But to his disgust he found Jefferson in the very shabbiest of clothes, and slippers down at the heel. So the good gentleman went away feeling that the President of the United States had meant to insult not merely himself but the King he represented.
There were the decorations of the walls, a number of etchings signed proofs, every one of them of Oriental subjects, and a splendid facsimile reproduction of an Egyptian papyrus. It was incongruous in the extreme, this mingling of costly refinements with the barest and shabbiest necessaries of life, of fastidious culture with manifest poverty. I could make nothing of it.
They are nicely contrived lodging-houses, one and all, the best as well as the shabbiest of them, and therefore inevitably lack some nameless property that a home should have.
Black bread and potatoes and pickled herrings made up the bulk of the every-day diet No, no one could accuse Bear Belcovitch of fattening on the entrails of his employees. The furniture was of the simplest and shabbiest, no aesthetic instinct urged the Kosminskis to overpass the bare necessities of existence, except in dress.
The public carriages of Germany are the shabbiest in the world; at Berlin the horses look like old hair trunks and the drivers like their moth-eaten contents. The Marches got no splendor for the two prices they paid, and their approach to their hotel on Unter den Linden was as unimpressive as the ignoble avenue itself.
She ... she satisfied one, somehow. You knew she was sound in every way the sort of woman one would always be proud of and when I thought of her as the mistress of Greenriver, I " He threw away his cigarette impatiently. "What a fool I am! What a damned fool you must think me, raving about a woman who played me the shabbiest trick a woman could play! God!
The shabbiest corporal of Napoleon would have laughed at his generalship, and half a battalion of Austrian grenadiers would have driven him and his rabble army headlong into the Ebro. I now made preparations for my journey into the north. I was already provided with horses well calculated to support the fatigues of the road and the burdens which I might deem necessary to impose upon them.
What inducement could Bolingbroke have had for such liberality towards a man who had betrayed him? Who can conceive of the redoubtable Dean of St. Patrick, then at the very summit of his fame, dispensing such splendid favours to a wretch whom he knew to be engaged in the shabbiest of all traffics at the expense of himself and his friends?
It was in that loveliest season of the year, the Indian summer, a week or ten days of atmospheric perfection which the clerk of the weather allows us as a compensation for our biting winter and rheumatic spring. The veiled rays of the sun and the soft shadows produce the effect of a golden moonlight, and make even Nature's shabbiest corners attractive.
There is no fear that the famous quarrel of the princes and dukes, which so roused the indignation of our stately St. Simon, will ever be repeated among the Roman aristocracy. To what purpose should it be, gracious Heavens! Don't they well know dukes and princes that they are all alike inferior to the shabbiest of the cardinals?
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