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  • His mane is a little threadbare and Mum threatens to bin him calling him moth-eaten!
  • When you think of seaside hotels, moth-eaten candlewick bedspreads and ferocious landladies usually come to mind.
  • Inside, I would probably find nothing of interest: maybe some moth-eaten old clothes and someone's forgotten junk.
  • After the room was filled with the warmth of the cheery fire, I tossed the newspaper onto the moth-eaten sofa and sat down behind my desk to at last fill out the bills I'd neglected the day before.
  • Archie performs his moth-eaten variety act before dwindling audiences in dog-eared music hall theatres.
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  • The so-called `special relationship" always looks moth-eaten when we're in office. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • We drove through a somewhat moth-eaten deer park.
  • A four-poster bed with a slightly moth-eaten canopy lay in one corner, appearing as if it hadn't been used for many a night, and a table stood beside it.
  • The musty, moth-eaten curtains, once a grand crimson, were now dull brown and drooping listlessly.
  • His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth moth-eaten into rags, was quite a work of time. Great Expectations
  • Perhaps I just feel sorry for those whose slightly moth-eaten faces do not fit any more.
  • This is such moth-eaten economics it ought to be discarded.
  • Needless to say, all of the interior was filled with dust and two or three large cobwebs were hanging from the corners, and all the remaining furniture was moth-eaten.
  • Your riches have rotted and your garments are moth-eaten.
  • Perhaps I just feel sorry for those whose slightly moth-eaten faces do not fit any more.
  • We sit in the moth-eaten upstairs lounge overlooking the St Helen's ground, with the surf pounding the adjacent beach.
  • We had a sheriff who played Santa Claus every year decked out in an unconvincing, moth-eaten, red suit.
  • Looking back at me was the late Bill Rose, grumpier and more moth-eaten than I remembered.
  • These clothes were dirty, old, moth-eaten, and had been out of fashion for at least fifty years.
  • She tugged some moth-eaten curtain her way and pinned it to the back of the case with her knee. THE RHYTHM SECTION
  • A four-poster bed with a slightly moth-eaten canopy lay in one corner, appearing as if it hadn't been used for many a night, and a table stood beside it.
  • moth-eaten blankets
  • The first step is to recognise what is going on, and to take steps to shore up the machicolated and moth-eaten institution in which I now sit.
  • In the Members Hall, the pictures of former Prime Ministers, Speakers and Presidents of the Senate have been taken down - but the real concern is over the moth-eaten Leader of the Opposition.
  • The audience of thirty sat in moth-eaten velvet armchairs covered by blankets. The Last Squash Tennis Player
  • Now when I think of the New Willard, I see frumpily dressed dowagers talking through their lorgnettes to moth-eaten senators. Vignettes of San Francisco
  • But the room was almost empty except for 2 stools, a short table, a thin moth-eaten blanket, and an empty bookcase.
  • Back then, Windows 3.1 was a kludgey, moth-eaten curtain hung in front of DOS.
  • The tiny window on the wall to my right is covered by moth-eaten cream curtains (well, it looks like they were cream once but have since degraded through dust invasion and misuse to a light brown).
  • I was fascinated by a stall selling second-hand woolly hats, the kind favoured by old ladies, seized upon here by trendy teenagers who were wearing them with moth-eaten fur coats.
  • ‘I think there's a story here,’ said Kelendom grinning as he sat down in a moth-eaten chair.
  • Only occasionally does someone throw a handful of change into his moth-eaten guitar case, something he doesn't always bother to leave out.
  • The so-called `special relationship" always looks moth-eaten when we're in office. THE ENDLESS GAME
  • He wore a moth-eaten old fur cap and a shabby overcoat that was stretched tightly across his paunchy belly.
  • We drove through a somewhat moth-eaten deer park.
  • I flopped back onto the moth-eaten sofa, glad to rest for a moment.
  • Ellen shivered, a lovely sight even when she's indianed in a moth-eaten blanket. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • Grunge has been a recurrent theme in fashion since the early 1990s, when rockers like Cobain transformed kilts, moth-eaten sweaters and lumberjack plaids into the insignia of yuppie revolt.
  • That is not to be, as in this moth-eaten tale of an honest cop versus the criminal underworld, there is nothing we have not seen and been weary of in the past.
  • There was a shoddy wooden control tower, with a moth-eaten windsock and several obsolete instruments on it.
  • But the excellent spahi, whom my letter from head-quarters had considerably impressed, busied himself meanwhile on my behalf, and at seven in the morning a springless, open, two-wheeled Arab cart, drawn by a moth-eaten old mule, was ready for my conveyance to Gafsa. Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia
  • moth-eaten theories about race
  • He covered her with the moth-eaten blankets and the stale smell of the room clung to the walls and to her.
  • Yeah, cos the map got a little moth-eaten and I have to navigate through the blank patches.
  • Riley lay on his moth-eaten sofa, dead to the world.
  • Indeed, in the flesh he has more than a passing resemblance to a slightly moth-eaten circus lion.
  • Can a moth-eaten camelhair coat be repaired?
  • As she buried herself under the thin, moth-eaten sheets, she knew it was no use trying to sleep, she had two hours of it in the carriage, and the way Zacharias was noisily rummaging through his suitcase wasn't helping.
  • The books themselves were dirty and well worn; their bindings held together by moth-eaten reddish cloth.
  • There was a shoddy wooden control tower, with a moth-eaten windsock and several obsolete instruments on it.
  • Mr. Monkey turns out to be a moth-eaten glove puppet.
  • She tugged some moth-eaten curtain her way and pinned it to the back of the case with her knee. THE RHYTHM SECTION
  • I've made this guy look cheerful, when actually he's pensive and moth-eaten and sad.
  • Ellen shivered, a lovely sight even when she's indianed in a moth-eaten blanket. THE TARTAN RINGERS
  • It's certainly true that students retain a strange willingness to welcome back the moth-eaten cultural icons of the Eighties.
  • When you think of seaside hotels, moth-eaten candlewick bedspreads and ferocious landladies usually come to mind.
  • Why is he skulking around in moth-eaten academia anyway?
  • In fact, he has a smile that lights up a room and, wearing a toque and slightly moth-eaten sweater, he could pass for one of the characters in his plays.
  • Archie performs his moth-eaten variety act before dwindling audiences in dog-eared music hall theatres.
  • We walk upstairs on a moth-eaten cream shagpile.
  • We drove through a somewhat moth-eaten deer park.
  • Beryl rounded up all our jumpers and various moth-eaten Fair Isle handknits belonging to Reginald, and boiled them in her washing machine.
  • If you enter any big library, in one corner of it, some age-worn, moth-eaten books may greet you.
  • Bam-bam's moth-eaten eyebrows waggled with pleasure at Crook's appearance. STAGE FRIGHT
  • This strategy looks increasingly moth-eaten.
  • And you can see that these crinkles in the outer layer of the brain in Alzheimer's Disease have taken on a very kind of moth-eaten appearance.
  • He (that is, man) as a rotten thing, the principle of whose putrefaction is in itself, consumes, even like a moth-eaten garment, which becomes continually worse and worse. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • Bam-bam's moth-eaten eyebrows waggled with pleasure at Crook's appearance. STAGE FRIGHT

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