How To Use Tatter In A Sentence
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He fled wearing only a sarong and a tattered shirt.
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Isn't there something revolting about catering to the imagined needs of a tiny group of spoiled ladies, a Marie Antoinette–ish situation that reached its apotheosis when John Galliano showed his infamous clochard collection—the word means bum or hobo in French, and the tattered gowns, hand-stenciled to look filthy, trailed pots, pans, and other refuse—at the 1997 Dior haute couture show?
Art in the Parks 3: Nan Kempner's Clothing
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A collection of tattered men o'war and patched sloops is firing directly over the decks of the old admiral's flagship and into the area of HMS Brown.
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There was no help for it, he had to be left there, and I went away with an anxious mind as to what his busy teeth would be employed upon all night; and, sure enough, next morning a velvet curtain was found nibbled and tattered, and being converted into a nest for the enterprising gerbille!
Wild Nature Won By Kindness
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Four teens ran down the dirt path of a town, their clothes tattered and patched, but not dirty.
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We also decided to get our tattered, old couch reupholstered, and I doubled our annual contribution to a local conservation group.
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The young leaves of my magnolia look tattered and some have pale spots on the surface.
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Rich men with tailored suits knelt by poor men in tattered clothes.
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Your finances are in tatters, your blood pressure is rising and the queue for the bank cashiers' desks is never-ending.
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His tattered clothing indicated a traveler and a worker, but his stately manner leaned away from both of those.
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The space ship is cluttered with aging technology and tattered furniture - this is not the uniformly pristine and transfigured world of the typical sci-fi flick.
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Tonight, the peace agreement lies in tatters.
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The mizzen-topsail, which was a comparatively new sail and close reefed, split from head to foot in the bunt; the foretopsail went in one rent from clew to caring, and was blowing to tatters; one of the chain bobstays parted; the spritsailyard sprung in the slings, the martingale had slued away off to leeward; and owing to the long dry weather the lee rigging hung in large bights at every lurch.
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And finally, we found the chamber in which she was kept, spread-eagled against one wall, dressed in rags and tatters of her once-magnificent gown.
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The photograph depicts two youths in horrendously tattered rags.
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As he drew closer he saw the different parts of the ship: the bulkhead, the mast, and the tattered remains of a sail.
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Tears have already been shed over the brioche, reputations left in tatters over the fondant icing.
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He has been unable to work, has suffered great financial loss and his reputation left in tatters.
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He has been unable to work, has suffered great financial loss and his reputation left in tatters.
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She reached to untangle the reins and free the horse, the bushes scratching at her arms, snagging the sleeves of her now-tattered dress.
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EL ALTO, Bolivia — Tattered dummies look down on this city from street poles in barren squares, like scarecrows for anyone with bad intentions.
The Wind From The South
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When summer-flowering perennials such as bellflowers, geraniums, lychnis, Shasta daisies, and spiderworts finish blooming and start to look tattered, cut back their stems to the rosette of new foliage.
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Did you succeed in buying the pair of matched grays that you were going to bid on at Tattersall's this morning?
The Obedient Bride
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His pilgrimage is dogged by calamity, as oxen sicken and die, the cart carrying the bell catches fire, and waifs and strays join his tattered procession.
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An armoire stood between the door and the bedstead, an old four-poster crouching against the left wall, with no mattress and the canopy in tatters.
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Tears have already been shed over the brioche, reputations left in tatters over the fondant icing.
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His economic reputation is in tatters.
The Sun
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In one corner, an old bedstead stood, the tattered bedsheets fortified by a quilt that Charley recognized as her mother's handiwork.
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The tattered clothes of the majority of shoeless, rural and urban poor are outward signs of the poverty they endure.
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Golden-crowned sifaka (Propithecus tattersalli), Madagascar.
Madagascar dry deciduous forests
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But most scammers are quickly ousted, reputation in tatters.
Times, Sunday Times
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What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained?
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Same thing, wore those tattersall shirts and, you know, corduroy pants.
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While the arguments for implementation of e-voting in a country that has a perniciously rose-coloured view of its technological status in this tattered chapter of the Celtic Tiger, the practical difficulties are actually quite large.
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But we confess that it is a little mortifying to our pride of time and place, to meet an old beggar-woman, who from the dust on her tattered brogues has evidently marched miles from her last night's wayside howf, and who holds out her withered palm for charity, at an hour when a cripple of fourscore might have been supposed sleeping on her pallet of straw.
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The little lady hath no shoon, no skirt that holds together, save by the grace of cockspur thorns that bind the tatters.
The Hidden Children
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Shrugging, Vicki lowered her gaze to her fingers picking at a tattered section of knee on her jeans.
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She wore a tattered denim jumper and a white shirt that matched the spotted peeling wallpaper, and she knew nothing of wealth.
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Sitting in his second-floor office down the tattered end of Islington, north London, he promises real change.
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There are so many people who think that an agitator is necessarily an unwashed, unshaven man, in tatters, with a pamphlet in one hand and a bomb in the other who offers no other alternative except to choose between them.
Is Quebec A British Province?
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His very appearance was a doorway into his soul; oily skin, greasy hair, and even his silks were in tatters.
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His fighting gear was singed and tattered, and his face and exposed flesh was scorched.
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The striking picture reveals an eclectic mix of embryonic stars living in the tattered neighborhood of one of the most famous massive stars in our Milky Way galaxy, Eta Carinae.
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He wore his gown till it was almost too tattered to hold together; and when he stood on the wooden bench by Big Hall steps to take call-over, it was with an air of mystic abandonment to ritual.
Goodbye, Mr Chips
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This would place the bones' arrival in the early part of the 19th century, which is consistent with a 1905 photograph showing the bones already tattered and weather-beaten.
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She was dressed in a tattered frock, and her hair was unwashed for days.
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We have scavenged the burned-out theater next door for a filigreed floor-to-ceiling round mirror and a tattered poster of Sarah Bernhardt as Hamlet.
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Even this old, tattered pashmina shawl of mine will not help matters.
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Her tattered clothes look as if the woman herself has come through Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
Christianity Today
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He produced a tattered envelope from his pocket.
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I may come across as confident, but cruel jibes left my self-esteem in tatters.
The Sun
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The tattered old book is valuable and we need to rebind it
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my torn and tattered past
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Al's tatterdemalion figure was washed out in a psychedelic rainbow as Sam Beckett leaped again.
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The way they look - first prettily adorned, then by the end tattered - evokes the resplendence of Cio-Cio-San the bride, then the degradation that engulfs her as she nears her inevitable, ruinous end.
Screens evoke 'Butterfly' magic
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She was dressed poorly in a tattered knit sweater and a shapeless skirt.
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He wore nothing but stained and tattered rags, and his dreadlocks were a mane of raggedy hair, so he moved in the engine room in a kind of camouflage.
The Whale Warriors
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He designs his costume, most often resorting to rags and tatters.
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It was a pair of worn-out tatterdemalions that Captain Jones of the Mounted Police welcomed and fed, and he afterward averred that they possessed two of the most tremendous appetites he had ever observed.
Trust
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Derec shuddered at the idea of untrained people teasing through the tatters of a positronic brain.
Mirage
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They never would have suspected a spy of any sorts the only person there was an old man from the looks of it sitting in a corner covered from head to foot in old rags and tatters.
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This tradition, with its suspect promise of simplicity, has a tattered reputation because of its reductionism.
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'By Seth's tattered and festering foreskin, I've not had so much sport since I tupped my first ewe!'
River God
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Tattersalls officials reported the final hammer price of 360,000 English guineas as a record for a yearling at the December sales.
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My mother resorted to slicing that tattered shmatte in half every time it came out of the dryer.
Chicago Reader
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For many years they fought like this, Hernando's spirit, like his reputation, growing tattered as an aged capote.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 2)
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But you might lie round among grandmother's feet for days, and, except for a stray cuff in passing if she actually walked into you -- a cuff given in the purest spirit of love and good-will, and merely as a warning of the worse thing that might happen to you if you made her spill the dinner "sowens" -- you might spend your days in reading anything from the _Arabian Nights_ in Uncle Eben's old tattered edition to the mighty _Josephus_, all complete with plans and plates -- over which on
The Dew of Their Youth
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She stared in horror at the whitened, frozen cadavers which lay there under a tattered, canvas sheet.
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“Cool,” said a passing woman in tattered bell-bottom jeans.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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The Web sites supporting ‘The Living Wage Movement’ have a tatterdemalion, homemade feel to them.
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He looked tattered and damp, as if he'd just done ten rounds of mud wrestling.
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Egypt's economy is in tatters after five years of political turmoil.
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The comical little fellow wore an unbleached cotton shirt, and tattered pantaloons, with home-made suspenders or "gallowses.
Queer Stories for Boys and Girls
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There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard.
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His skin garments were dirty and in tatters, and the fur of one side was singed and burned away, showing where he had lain upon his fire.
An Odyssey of the North
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A subtle palette of brown and white accented with deep blue is the common thread that runs throughout the house - in dark wood furniture and tactile fabrics, such as mohair, linen, tattersall, and challis.
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In case I die it would be a karmic accident sent here on earth for my forefathers sins to repent maundy thursday stations of the cross the holy month of lent desolate dissolute man he came he saw his death he need not invent an accident god sent hopes as large as mansions trying to fit in a tattered and torn tent silent scriptures bleeding sorrow
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There were photographs stuck to the stone wall, packages with letters, coins, tatters of cloth.
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Now that effort lies in tatters, and we have an atmosphere of hostility and suspicion between us all over again.
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There it comes sliding down the luggage ramp: flattened, tattered, stained, wonderfully unappealing.
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The company is the second serious challenger to Camelot Group, which has always run the lottery, joining challenger Tattersall's of Australia.
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Their clothes are tattered, they are still building their huts.
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I opened the door to be greeted by a rather tall, nice-looking man wearing a pair of tattered jeans and jacket.
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The previous European record for gross receipts at a yearling auction was 36,545,600 guineas reached at the 1984 Tattersalls Houghton auction.
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She peered at the appointment register, torn and tattered, with crossings out, sections covered over with white-out and written on again, arrows, inserts, every kind of revision mark you can imagine.
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The noise reduction achieved from the tattered fringe makes owls the quietest flying birds, Lilley said.
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Her marriage now lay in tatters.
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And a circus happens where and whenever some tatterdemalion body discards itself in leaps and somersaults.
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Their neighing was the shout of the tempest in the rocks; and their gusty manes were a cloud that tatters in the storm!
"The Fading of Shadow Flower"
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Still, at the time of her trial it was well documented that she suffered from battered women's syndrome, a state hallmarked by depression, anxiety, fear, and tattered self-esteem.
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He was, as Miss Tattersall had said, "infatuated," but I put a more kindly construction on the description than she had done -- perhaps "enthralled" would have been a better word.
The Jervaise Comedy
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In late afternoon the white sand flew in tatters across the dissolving sun, an opalescent filter, the sky radiating throbbing waves of bruised purple, cobalt and amethyst into the slim gray shred of sand making the horizon.
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On a main road leading north of Kabul, another refugee pushed a cart piled high with pots and pans, a metal trunk and a few tattered carpets.
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But the graveyard was as empty and unthreatening as it had been when I arrived, and the tattered man was nowhere to be seen.
NIGHT SISTERS
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His tattered clothes hung loosely on his pale and thin skeleton as he thrust three bottles of scotch to the side.
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But the little uppermost room was empty, except for a dusty sheepskin jacket and a pair of tattered sandals.
What the Bee Knows - reflections on myth, symbol and story
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All Victor Carl knows is that hes just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new tattoo he doesnt remember getting: a heart inscribed with the name Chantal Adair.
Marked Man by William Lashner: Book summary
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All Victor Carl knows is that hes just woken up with his suit in tatters, his socks missing, and a stinging pain in his chest thanks to a new tattoo he doesnt remember getting: a heart inscribed with the name Chantal Adair.
Marked Man by William Lashner: Book summary
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He would practically need to cart the tattered remains around in a wheelchair after high days and holidays.
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The chestnut colt also won the 2001 Tattersall Stakes as a three-year-old.
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The regime, though, no longer appears concerned with salvaging its tattered reputation abroad.
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She was the least savant of the group, according to her tattered footwear, and her lackey hair job tailed the backwoods hillbilly aura about her.
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He had a long dark brown mustache and bushy eyebrows, his dark blue shirt was tattered and torn.
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By the time Sara had made her delivery - in a rainstorm - tattered Mylar hung forlornly from a warped and woebegone frame.
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But it was Tattersall's to a tin can that the pandies would spot him, torture his message out of him, and be ready and waiting for Campbell when he advanced.
Fiancée
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Now that effort lies in tatters, and we have an atmosphere of hostility and suspicion between us all over again.
Times, Sunday Times
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His magic cape in tatters, G-Man is left powerless and alone.
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The South African flag is tattered and faded, is usually wrapped around the flagpole and looks a sorry sight.
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There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard.
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All he had on was a pair of tattered shorts.
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Mr Haw's collection of tattered banners covers 60 feet, and is an eyesore.
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She dirties her hands and feet, splashes paint onto her skin or pinches it with clothespins, squeezes herself into cupboards and detached fireplace moldings, wraps herself in tattered wallpaper peeling from the walls, crouches barefoot amongst the dust and detritus and reclines in display cases alongside taxidermied rodents.
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The only thing that dislodged was her navy blue Swiss polka dot skirt which dropped over her upside down head revealing a tattered pair of grayish cotton underpants and some nylons that were tied in knots behind her knee.
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He is really one of the most fascinating men in polished society, and withal, the best judge of a horse at Tattersalls, of a dennet at Long Acre, or a segar in
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Rakishly thin, he wore tattered cords that rode half way up his skeleton legs.
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He sees himself as flying a tattered flag.
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As you can imagine, when he finally got to my office, his self-esteem was badly tattered.
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In the haphazard tatterdemalion surroundings of sheds and abandoned industrial buildings, the new centre stands out as an organized oasis.
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But beyond the baize door there were shadows, there was dust, windows draped in cobwebs, before which hung curtains tattered and faded, drooping from their poles like the old banners that, slowly rotting in great cathedrals, sway in the quiet air where no wind is – stirred, perhaps, by the breath of Fame's invisible trumpet to the air of old splendours and glories.
The House of Arden
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But his reputation, already sullied by allegations of cheating earlier in his career, is now in tatters.
The Sun
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Saunier JL, Niederstatter H, Strouss KM, Sturk KA, et al. (2009) Investigation of heteroplasmy in the human mitochondrial DNA control region: a synthesis of observations from more than 5000 global population samples.
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He was wearing a tattered coat.
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I walk away cautiously, tip toeing along the path, aware of the many holes in my tattered hiking boots.
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That also rends into tatters the shreds of my emotionless image, wouldn't you say?
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They began with a tatterdemalion parade of musicians and baton twirlers down the aisle and onto the stage.
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Some are so well thumbed that the tattered pages look ready to crumble.
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Storm-swiped vessels with broken masts and tattered sails beached alongside the dock, frail and weather-beaten, but home from the squall.
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He teams hefty tweeds with tattersall, checks and plaids and brown suede shoes, sometimes with a bright sweater-vest.
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He had come thus to Tattersall's and Vavasor had bought him cheap, thinking that he might make money of him, from his form and action.
Can You Forgive Her?
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Our international standing and reputation for decency is in tatters.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: March 11, 2010
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Wisps of straw protrude from the creature's sleeves and the collar of its tattered shirt.
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He dressed like a willful teenager, favoring jeans so tattered you could see his boxer shorts through them.
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A crowd that clutched parcels of packaged joy had gathered around a joyless, shoeless vagrant who was dressed in newspaper-stuffed tatters.
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The reality is that we're picking up a team whose reputation is in tatters.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was only a man in tattered blue dungarees hammering busily at a makeshift crush at the exit to the fold yard.
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The earth by the Kramer monument burst asunder, and a bony, decomposing arm, covered with tatters of moldy, worm-eaten cloth, reached out of the ground.
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I had to dry my perspiration-soaked hands on the tattered, dirty-gray interior of the hooptie.
Show Stoppah
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Tears have already been shed over the brioche, reputations left in tatters over the fondant icing.
Times, Sunday Times
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You could see the homeless on the streets, in their tattered rags and scraps of what were once new, clean clothes; they were all begging.
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There is no pulpit; the only ornament is a rude representation of the Meccan Mosque, nailed like a pothouse print to the wall; and the sole articles of furniture are ragged mats and old boxes, containing tattered chapters of the Koran in greasy bindings.
First footsteps in East Africa
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Scraps and tatters of the past whirled in my head.
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The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank grey beggarman, half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two old shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a three-stringed harp.
Celtic Fairy Tales
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A tattered flag hung from the roof of the burnt - out building.
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He fled wearing only a sarong and a tattered shirt.
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He produced a tattered envelope from his pocket.
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It's organic, it's witty, it's nasty, it's gaudy, it takes a tattered sheet of reality and darns the holes with glittering thread.
Namedropper
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Within six months the plans were in tatters as sales slumped and the business collapsed into administration.
Times, Sunday Times
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They were mostly old, tattered, and evidently well-read paperbacks.
A RODENT OF DOUBT
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The articles of Arthur Ronald Constance, the famed ring columnist, lined the walls in ancient, browned, curling tatters.
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The regime, though, no longer appears concerned with salvaging its tattered reputation abroad.
Times, Sunday Times
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A subtle palette of brown and white accented with deep blue is the common thread that runs throughout the house - in dark wood furniture and tactile fabrics, such as mohair, linen, tattersall, and challis.
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Willstätter showed a structural relatedness between chlorophyll and hemin, and he demonstrated that chlorophyll contains magnesium as an integral component.
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry
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Within six months the plans were in tatters as sales slumped and the business collapsed into administration.
Times, Sunday Times
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But his reputation, already sullied by allegations of cheating earlier in his career, is now in tatters.
The Sun
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the tattered flag
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She arose, striking her tattered dress to shake the dust and dirt from it.
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A tattered knave arrived at this dressing-room, deposited his thirty sous and selected, according to the part which he wished to play, the costume which suited him, and on descending the stairs once more, the knave was a somebody.
Les Miserables
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There he discovered a very tall and shapely woman who barely managed to cover herself with tattered clothing by moving it with her elbows.
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He lay motionless, dressed in dirty tattered clothes.
THE LOST KING OF FRANCE: Revolution, Revenge and the Search for Louis XVII
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A summer's prospecting, filled to repletion with hardship and rather empty of grub, had left their clothes in tatters and themselves worn and cadaverous.
Too Much Gold
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The newcomer's plum, saccular head nods in the old song of cloths and tatters, drab and sand-stippled, those blowzy streaks of thinned hair swishing about in an onrush of current.
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On display were corsets in shimmering silks, empire line tops and dresses, cotton layer skirts with tattered hemlines.
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England is considering the possibility that its World Cup dream could lie in tatters seven weeks before a ball is kicked, and a frenzied southern media is horror-struck.
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Although I would find them much less to my taste nowadays, I still have those novels on my shelf, tattered and yellowed as they are.
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With no plan for transportation and with his personal reputation in tatters, Bob McDonnell faces a bleak future.
ABC privatization is McDonnell's Waterloo
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Tattersall's has been able to withstand severe pressure on costs by virtue of a blessed business environment.
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A handsome nerd, he loves computers and gadgets, but also obsessively fills tattered scrapbooks with sketches, old postcards and sentimental family snaps.
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One day Laurel stumbles on a stranger, a tattered young man who plays the flute.
Times, Sunday Times
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Yet now this reputation lies in tatters.
Times, Sunday Times
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Applying wall finishes can give tattered walls a unique look by using different techniques such as texturizing with paint and plaster or wall stenciling to hide any imperfections.
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Nevertheless, life goes on, and time marches forward, even if it leaves its scuff marks on our bruised and tattered bodies, its foot prints on our souls.
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Slightly apart stand a line of khaki-clad men, ancients with grizzled beards and yellow, rheumy eyes, dressed in tattered uniforms and battered solar topis.
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His groom of the chambers had scarce lighted a pair of torches, and Montrose himself had scarce risen from his couch, when two men entered, one wearing a Lowland dress, of shamoy leather worn almost to tatters; the other a tall upright old Highlander, of a complexion which might be termed iron-grey, wasted and worn by frost and tempest.
A Legend of Montrose
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She was not to be scarred for life, her career ruined, her future in tatters.
DEATH IN FASHION
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Yesterday I bought new shoes, and told the clerk I needed something that would stand up to a great dealing walking the next day without shredding my heel into red tatters.
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Within six months the plans were in tatters as sales slumped and the business collapsed into administration.
Times, Sunday Times
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And yet, I feel that the tide turned on that mudbank; at least, after a long nightmare, I can say that there followed a period of comparative calm, for me, in which I was able to recruit my tattered nerves, and take stock, and start planning how to get the devil out of this Indian pickle and back to England and safety.
Fiancée
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We also explore how far banks have to go to restore their tattered reputations and rebuild consumer trust.
Times, Sunday Times
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But it was Tattersall's to a tin can that the pandies would spot him, torture his message out of him, and be ready and waiting for Campbell when he advanced.
Fiancée
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The Palaeologi reigned in ghostly supremacy over the shreds and tatters of Byzantium until the Turks seized Constantinople in 1453.
Superversive: Gondor, Byzantium, and Feudalism
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The doorkeeper went, and what he saw was a lank, grey beggarman; half his sword bared behind his haunch, his two shoes full of cold road-a-wayish water sousing about him, the tips of his two ears out through his old hat, his two shoulders out through his scant tattered cloak, and in his hand a green wand of holly.
Celtic Fairy Tales
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A tattered white sheet drops from the ceiling to serve as background for the requisite digital photo, which she takes of each entrant as part of the 10 birr she charges per submission.
Playing the U.S. Visa Lottery in Ethiopia
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The Governor's political calculus is clear: It is better to leave public services in tatters than impose higher taxes on corporations reaping record profits in the midst of the Great Recession.
Elissa D. Barrett: To the Righteous, Wealth Is a Greater Test Than Poverty
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His eyes were red and bloodshot and he looked worn and tattered with emotion.
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The reality is that we're picking up a team whose reputation is in tatters.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was a tattered, ring-bound thing from the early seventies with a lurid photo of some hippy, with a goatee beard and two-foot long sideburns, sitting cross-legged on the cover.
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His build made up for his shortness, his broad shoulders clearly apparent under a torn and tattered linen shirt.
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He dug in his pocket and brought out a handful of tattered notes.
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Ensor, who said he was a former Navy frogman and SEAL, had a thin moustache and wore a tattered green beret at a jaunty angle.
Heroes or Villains?
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Dominguez's tattered adorableness at the beginning, the way she warbles about what Glen Campbell would call the dreams of an everyday housewife, her lambent and then incandescent love for Seymour, all this she conveys with passion and conviction.
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His reputation is in tatters.
Times, Sunday Times
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After that much tattered, much traveled flag from the World Trade Center -- our homegrown Shroud of Turin -- joined Sting, LeAnn Rimes, Yo-Yo Ma and President George W. Bush to sacralize the already-simon-pure precincts of Salt Lake City.
Corruption: A Spectator Sport
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Down in Tattersall's enclosure, Austin Dartmouth Glenn passed two hot bank notes to a bookmaker who stuffed them busily into his satchel without looking and issued a ticket to win on Spotted Tulip at eight to one in the first.
The Elvis Latte
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Absinthe and tattered clothes are no longer the attributes of the new.
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And backslapping partnership agreements between airline bosses and union leaders can all too easily end in tatters - mainly due to the cruel realities of the airline industry, which is even more cut-throat than most.
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Tears have already been shed over the brioche, reputations left in tatters over the fondant icing.
Times, Sunday Times
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He intended to spend the day at Tattersall's and a few other places where the man was likely to be.
No Man's Mistress
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Running the ball, the move came to nothing and Waterloo went back downfield for a decisive fourth try when Graham was isolated and dispossessed inside his own 22 and centre Mark Tattersall strode over to seal the comeback.
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The gray-haired soap box orator in the tattered Mao jacket responded to the gaze of our camera by climbing up on the top of a trishaw, waving his hands at us in a ritualized, almost theatrical way, not unlike the way officials did on TV.
WORKING CLASS HEROES
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Leap not from my car, even though I realize — given my confessed extramarital affair, avowed childhood desire to see my father explode into flames, and carpet of tattered Happy Meal wrappers — I may not strike you as the most reliable explicator of modern marriage.
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
