1 She's proud, but I don't believe she'd mind, for that dowdy tarlaton is all she has got.
2 has made her plans, that fib about her mamma, and dowdy tarlaton, till she was ready to cry and rush home to tell her troubles and ask for advice.
3 No, I'm tired of being dowdy, so I dressed up as a change.
4 She hid her eyes with a shudder, beholding herself at the entrance of that ever-narrowing perspective down which she had seen Miss Silverton's dowdy figure take its despondent way.
5 Her bonnet was awry; she was incomparably dowdy.
6 His own neighbour was Mrs. Vandeleur, one of his aunt's oldest friends, a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.
7 And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.