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1. We met on the third floor of a shabby building in Asadabad in an impossibly spare room that we dragged cushions into.
2. Graterford is a forbidding, shabby, woebegone facility built in 1929.
3. These nonchalant brutalities seem at first at odds with the genteel decorum that mostly cloaks late-19th century culture.
4. It was such a lovely, shabby, many deco building town and completely unexploited.
5. Champion Hill, where the book is set, is two quiet roads of genteel-looking houses, first settled in the 18th century.
6. "I bought them boots to wear only when I go into genteel society," said one of the codfish tribe, to a wag, the other day.
7. The English have too much pride to be tricky or shabby, even in the essentially corrupting relation of buyer and seller.
8. The farmer stooped down, and raised the shabby bonnet from the face of the woman to examine her more carefully.
9. He turned into an alley, down which, nautically speaking, he rolled into a shabby little court.
10. She still wore the shabby lace and the artificial bunch of violets on the side of her head.