1 She could endure the sight of her own child in aprons made of sacking and the girls in dingy old gingham, could bear it that Will worked harder than any field hand, but not Ashley.
2 Surrounding the building completely and covering the square of land of which it was the center were row after row of army huts, dingy and mud splashed.
3 He bowed carelessly and taking Scarlett's arm pulled her to her feet and propelled her into the dingy orderly room.
4 The wooden awnings cut off most of the winter daylight and the interior was dim and dingy, only a trickle of light coming in through the small fly-specked windows high up on the side walls.
5 Secondhand furniture, ranging from cheap gum to mahogany and rosewood, reared up in the gloom, and the rich but worn brocade and horsehair upholstery gleamed incongruously in the dingy surroundings.
6 A tall man came into the dingy room walking with a light Indian-like tread, and looking up she saw Rhett Butler.
7 Dr. Meade could tell unlovely stories of those families who had been driven from mansions to boarding houses and from boarding houses to dingy rooms on back streets.
8 She had hated dinginess, and it was her fate to be dingy.
9 She was in truth grateful for the refuge offered her: Mrs. Peniston's opulent interior was at least not externally dingy.
10 The outer air, penned between high buildings, brought no freshness through the window; steam-heat was beginning to sing in a coil of dingy pipes, and a smell of cooking penetrated the crack of the door.
11 The few little cedars, which were so dull and dingy before, now stood out a strong, dusky green.
12 They were for the most part dingy, but as they were nearly always open it did not make so much difference.
13 It was there also that she ate, keeping her belongings in a rare old buffet, dingy and battered from a hundred years of use.
14 The room looked cheerless and dingy to Edna as she entered.
15 These bare places were grown up with dingy, yellow weeds, hiding innumerable tomato cans; innumerable children played upon them, chasing one another here and there, screaming and fighting.