50 examples of frowsy in sentences

It was a forlorn-looking lot of hovels, occupied by listless, frowsy adults and noisy children.

One of the regular old tumble-down streets, given up long ago to cobblers and tinkers of all kinds, and you're going to take tea with a girl who lives in that frowsy, dirty place!"

"It isn't frowsy and dirty.

It's only an old, unfashionable street, but not frowsy or dirty.

So her little pigtails were no longer smooth and glossy, but frowsy and loose, and the rest of her hair was ruffled until it looked something like the Bird Fairies' soft plumage.

'I hate my frowsy beard,' he cries; 'My youth is lost in this disguise.

He was also greatly struck with Greenwich Hospital, which looked to him like a royal palace (as it was originally), and he greatly wondered that the old seedy and frowsy pensioners should be lodged so magnificently.

He thus describes his publisher: "With leering looks, bull-faced, and freckled fair, With two left legs, and Judas-colored hair, And frowsy pores that taint the ambient air.

Often it ran level with the roofs of vague, far-stretching acres of houses houses vile and frowsy, and smoking like pyres in the dank air.

The room was an old and rather frowsy one, with shabby leather furniture from which the stuffing protruded, panelled walls, a carpet almost threadbare, and a formidable array of calf-bound volumes in the cases lining one wall.

He rose, and saw a frowsy, dishevelled, puce-coloured figure in the dirty mirror over the fireplace.

I have seen some of themwretched, crinkled, scrawled over, blotched, frowsy, and yet these wretched little scraps of paper moved great ships, laden with thousands of tons of precious cargo, from one end of the world to the other.

This feeling of adventure is heightened by the contrast between Tangiercosmopolitan, frowsy, familiar Tangier, that every tourist has visited for the last forty yearsand the vast unknown just beyond.

"You have a ripping moonlight walk instead of a so-called night's rest in a frowsy hut.

" One evening, just before the young people left the town, and as Mrs. Sinclair sat alone in her room, the frowsy waitress announced "a lady," and was requested to bid her enter.

I remember begging to be allowed to invest the sum "in pictures," and that my father, gently diverting my selection from a frowsy and popular "Hope" at whose memory I shudder even yet, induced me to find that I preferred some excellent photographs of Thorwaldsen's "Night" and "Morning," which he framed for me, and which hang in our rooms to-day.

Most peasant mothers with a family of nine have no time for idleness, but Mrs M'Swat managed things so that she spent most of the day rolling on her frowsy bed playing with her dirty infant, which was as fat and good-tempered as herself.

Not that I need care more than another, though they do say he's a bit frowsy and short-waisted; for he can't shouther me out

He's been some time in ill fettle, though he was never frowsy, not he, but always kind and dooce, and canty once, like anither; and he asked me to tak the boat across the lake at once to the Clough o' Cloostedd at t'other side.

Its leather lungs, that once shouted the charge, were now still and frowsy, with no martial speech left in them.

Investigation showed that our only resource in the commissary line were some wads of sticky, unsalted, boiled rice which our Igorot carriers had inside their hats, in contact with their frowsy hair.

" "I'm sure you won't thank that rascally cousin of mine for having taught you," said Russell; "but seriously, isn't it a very moping way of spending the afternoon, to go and lie down behind some hay-stack, or in some frowsy tumble-down barn, as you smokers do, instead of playing racquets or football?" "O, it's pleasant enough sometimes," said Eric, speaking rather against his own convictions.

Whereat the women ran and brought a number of frowsy and bleared men, all unwounded, save one that had a broken head.

It was Bridget; and her red hair was dishevelled, her face flushed to the parboiled tint, and her dress uncommonly damp and frowsy.

" After this outburst the man slept gently on, while the little girl still held the parasol aloft and looked down with a great wonder at the frowsy, unkempt creature, trying to reconcile it with the little part of life that she knew.

50 examples of  frowsy  in sentences