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- From these he was saved by his not untimely release from the imprisonment of the worn-out bodily frame. [6]
- While Mavra Kuzminichna was running to her room the officer walked about the yard gazing at his worn-out boots with lowered head and a faint smile on his lips. [2]
- His grizzled hair was all lengths, like a worn-out mop; his hand reminded one of an eagle's claw, and his teeth were a pine yellow. [9]
- Or was it that sleep of the worn-out spirit which, tortured by remembrance and remorse, at last sinks into the depths where the conscious vexes the unconscious --a little of fire, a little of ice, and now and then the turn of the screw? [11]
- This was a Senator of the worn-out and obsolete pattern; a man still lingering among the cobwebs of the past, and behind the spirit of the age. [5]
- At the corner of the Moroseyka, opposite a large house with closed shutters and bearing a bootmaker's signboard, stood a score of thin, worn-out, gloomy-faced bootmakers, wearing overalls and long tattered coats. [2]
- In this world of ours he can discern the working of a purposeful will, and confuses his mind with windy, worn-out ideals. [10]
- On this work of art lay the pillows used at night, booty obtained at Haarlem; they were covered with bright but worn-out silk, which had long shown the need of the thrifty touch of a woman's hand. [10]
- Say if one note of happier strain This worn-out harp afford, --One throb that trembles, not in vain, Their memory lent its chord. [6]
- I heard him lecture once, and have had his image with me ever since as that of an old, worn-out man,--a venerable but dilapidated relic of an effete antiquity. [6]
- The only trouble is, that the little good-for-nothings that come of utterly used-up and worn-out stock, and ought to die, can't die, to save their lives. [6]
- Worn-out, he dropped into his berth and slept the thirty-six hours of the journey. [5]
- He rose and flung himself, worn-out, upon his hard pallet, and, seeming to slumber, dreamed again within his dream. [6]
- The dust-covered, worn-out fellow was transformed into a handsome youth. [10]
- Despite all Kutuzov's efforts to avoid that ruinous encounter and to preserve his troops, the massacre of the broken mob of French soldiers by worn-out Russians continued at Krasnoe for three days. [2]
- People had to drive their stock long distances --immense journeys--from worn-out places to new ones where were water and fresh pasturage; and this wide space had to be left in grass and unfenced, or the stock would have starved to death in the transit. [5]
- Once, a lad at a worn-out mine Strove to warn her with awe-struck sign-- Turned she neither to left nor right, Strained till the Rock Hills came in sight; "But two miles more," to herself she said, "Then she shall have him alive, not dead! [11]
- Power has this advantage over all three, it can be flung off like a worn-out doublet. [10]
- Her lowest deck (too low for the purpose) was pierced aft with three ports on a side, and six worn-out eighteen-pounders mounted there. [9]
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