SHABBY in Classic Quotes

1  Lily sank with a sigh into one of the shabby leather chairs.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1

2  Her eyes rested wonderingly on the thin shabby figure at her side.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 13

3  He followed her glance about the room, with its worn furniture and shabby walls.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1

4  No; she was not made for mean and shabby surroundings, for the squalid compromises of poverty.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 3

5  If I were shabby no one would have me: a woman is asked out as much for her clothes as for herself.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1

6  If their house was shabby, it was exquisitely kept; if there were good books on the shelves there were also good dishes on the table.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 14

7  That course, for the moment, led merely to Miss Bart's boarding-house; but its shabby door-step had suddenly become the threshold of the untried.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14

8  The day's task done, she dreaded to return to her narrow room, with its blotched wallpaper and shabby paint; and she hated every step of the walk thither, through the degradation of a New York street in the last stages of decline from fashion to commerce.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 10

9  She waited long enough on the doorstep to wonder that Judy's presence in town was not signalized by a greater promptness in admitting her; and her surprise was increased when, instead of the expected footman, pushing his shoulders into a tardy coat, a shabby care-taking person in calico let her into the shrouded hall.

House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
ContextHighlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 13