Bless thy doublet, it is not over-new, threadbare as thy stories:what dost thou flitting about the world at this rate?Thy customers are extinct, defunct, bed-rid, have ceased to read long ago.

The chief argument against Negro suffrage, the insistently proclaimed argument, worn threadbare in Congress, on the platform, in the pulpit, in the press, in poetry, in fiction, in impassioned rhetoric, is the reconstruction period.

As to his habits and manners, little is known, and that little is worn threadbare by his many biographers.

He was shivering a little, for he had always been used to sleeping in a proper bed, and by this time his coat had worn so thin and threadbare from hugging that it was no longer any protection to him.

And then he repeats again and again that series of injunctions which already seems so threadbare to you, Esmeralda, but which you do not follow, not because you do not try, but because you have not full control of your muscles, and then comes once more the order, "Prepare to whoa.

I would give the earnings of a year for a set of new jokes, such as might come fresh from the wit of one who never saw a mountebank, and are not worn threadbare with being rubbed against the brains of all the jokers in Europe.

We are rather inclined to admire the gentleman who, until lately, officiated as his curatethe Rev. E. Lee,and who, after preaching his last sermon, was next day made the recipient of that most fashionable and threadbare of all things, a presentation.

But it must be owned that these things, so unspeakably interesting at first, became a little threadbare before the end of the winter; we grew tired of the tawdriness and shabbiness which pervaded them all, of the coarse faces of the priests, and the rank odor of the incense.

And so, though her strength was worn threadbare through perpetual strain, she clung to it still.

Ned was not only considered as a thriving trader, but as a man of elegance and politeness, for he was remarkably neat in his dress, and would wear his coat threadbare without spotting it; his hat was always brushed, his shoes glossy, his wig nicely curled, and his stockings without a wrinkle.

His boots were tapped and mended, his trousers threadbare at the knee, and there were two patches on his coat.