Perhaps it's only my fancy, butbut they seem to look down on me as they didn't before, andand sometimes they seem to avoid me, andI'm just the same as ever, exceptexcept I'm a good deal shabbier this spring.

They seemed still meaner and shabbier when two other girls appeared in yet prettier costumes of fresh daintiness; and when these two dropped their little hooded shoulder-wraps of silk and lace, and she saw that they were the two Ryder cousins, poor Angela suddenly began to feel a strange sense of awkwardness and unfitness.

Concluding that the universe is a shabby affair, they like to make it out shabbier still,and so, seldom brighten up till they have an ill thing to say.

His dress turned shabbier; with each ascending grade his diamonds, gold snuff-box, and jewels disappeared.

We are conspirators, strictly incog., dressed in the shabbiest of clothes.

" Mr. Bellingham chuckled and smothered a yawn, and at that moment his daughter entered the room; and, in spite of her shabby black dress and a shabbier handbag that she carried, I thought her appearance and manner fully justified my description.

All the shabbiest furniture, and the Carey furniture was mostly shabby, was covered with a cheap, gay chintz, and crimson Jacqueminot roses clambered all over the wall paper, so that the room was a cool bower of beauty.

'Is it not pitiable to think of the years he spent in this monotonous place, without any society worth speaking of, with only the shabbiest collection of books, with hardly any interest in life except the sky, and the hills, and the peasantry?'

First came a large company of soldiers almost exactly like Captain Jinks and the sergeant, except that their uniforms were a little shabbier-looking, and their arms a little less brightly polished.

The place seemed dirtier, too,worse paved, shabbier as to its brick-work and stucco, and worse painted,but whether through real deterioration, or by comparison with the neatly finished city which I had lately left, I cannot decide.

(It was steadily growing shabbier, too, since she left him hardly any time at all for tuning pianos.

And somehow, too, the place was even shabbier, even meaner than she had expected.

It was ten o'clock when the three returned from Tivoli and the ColosseumMary Gowd silent and shabbier than ever from the dust of the road; Blue Cape smiling; Tweetie frankly pettish.

'I have seen you several times lately,' said the broken gentleman, who looked shabbier than before in the broad daylight, 'but II didn't like to speak.

" Gilbert Fenton was not prepossessed by Mr. Medler's countenance, which was not an open candid index to a spotless soul, nor by his surroundings, which were of the shabbiest; but the business being in this man's hands, it might be rather difficult to withdraw itdangerous even.

And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy-so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail becoming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him.

And so time went on, and the little Rabbit was very happy-so happy that he never noticed how his beautiful velveteen fur was getting shabbier and shabbier, and his tail becoming unsewn, and all the pink rubbed off his nose where the Boy had kissed him.

And if you could see Tom in his flannel shirt and his shabbiest old grey suit, and a felt slouch hat, you could not tell him from one of these lovely miners.

The hamlets edged in here and there grew thinner, smaller and shabbier.

A woman in a tidy calico dress, and shabby black silk cap trimmed with still shabbier lace, rose from her seat beside a sort of bread-trough, which fulfilled the office of cradle to a fine, fat baby.

Look at that four-story house near the western end of the block, the one a trifle shabbier than its neighbors.

Flattered by the honest baronet's invitation, he had met it almost more than half-way; and had dispatched six of his shabbiest horses to Birmingham to be repainted for the fete, and labelled "Kitchener," "Bobs," "Cecil Rhodes," "Doctor Jim," "Our Joe," and "Strathcona"names (as he observed)

" "But, Aunt Linda," pursued Iola, "if it were shabby for an ignorant colored man to sell his vote, wasn't it shabbier for an intelligent white man to buy it?"

The hat that hung in the passage below might have been much shabbier without necessarily indicating poverty.

The occasional soldier met in the streets looked shabbier in the shabby surroundings of the East.