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Updated: June 2, 2025
And I was there, oddly enough, when the god in the car alighted, so to speak, at The Rigs. "One afternoon, just after I came to Priorsford, I went in after tea and found the Jardines entertaining a shabby-looking elderly man. They were all so very nice to him that I thought he must be some old family friend, but it turned out that none of them had seen him before that afternoon.
It will increase the gayety of the season here." "Thank you," said Dick. "But I am afraid, sir, that we have been worse than neglectful -stupid. "How so?" asked Mr. Wright, his manner quickly putting both rather shabby-looking boys wholly at their ease.
The theatres that it contains are in themselves sufficient for the gathering of a considerable crowd. It is a grimy crowd for the most part. Round the doors of the hotels a number of ragged and shabby-looking individuals collect, waiting till some kind friend shall invite them to step inside.
To "GIMBLE" is to make holes like a gimlet. 'Of course it is. It's called "WABE," you know, because it goes a long way before it, and a long way behind it 'And a long way beyond it on each side, Alice added. 'Exactly so. And a "BOROGOVE" is a thin shabby-looking bird with its feathers sticking out all round something like a live mop. 'And then "MOME RATHS"? said Alice.
There was no thought of danger in the mind of either, yet, as a fact, Hector had never in his life been exposed to peril so serious as that evening. Lurking behind in the shadow a shabby-looking man followed the two boys, keeping his eyes steadily on Hector. At a place specially favorable, our hero was startled by hearing a bullet whiz by his ear. He turned instantly, and so did Gregory.
"The girls were saying that one of us would be dismissed." "Oh, I shouldn't think that's likely." "I hope not." "So do I. What are we stopping for?" Jill had halted in front of a shabby-looking house, one of those depressing buildings which spring up overnight at seashore resorts and start to decay the moment the builders have left them. "I live here." "Here!" Wally looked at her in consternation.
As for her mother, the old lady seemed intensely interested and yet conscious all the time that she herself, in this strange position, was an interloper; again and again she rose and offered to resign her place to the rather shabby-looking elderly man who was the rightful occupant; but he just as often begged her to remain he seemed mostly interested in the management of the gas-handles just over his head.
Another feature was the dress and faces of the members especially the authors, to whom Peter had introduced him, whose books he had read, and whose personalities he had heard discussed, and who, to his astonishment, had turned out to be shabby-looking old fellows who smoked and drank, or played chess, like other ordinary mortals, and without pretence of any kind so far as he could detect.
"My dear fellow," said Lord Henry, elevating his eyebrows in surprise, "I asked you because I thought you might be able to give me an answer. That is all. I was going through the park last Sunday, and close by the Marble Arch there stood a little crowd of shabby-looking people listening to some vulgar street-preacher. As I passed by, I heard the man yelling out that question to his audience.
Bastin felt that his opportunity had arrived, and was making ready to rise to the occasion. Also we felt, all three of us, that we were extremely shabby-looking objects, and though none of us said so, each did his best to improve his personal appearance. First of all Bickley cut Bastin's and my hair, after which I did him the same service.
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