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«Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.»
Author: Margaret Drabble
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affluence, carpets, coconut, coconuts, furniture, infancy, pad, padded, subsistence, texture, threadbare, utility
«If honor be your clothing, the suit will last a lifetime; but if clothing be your honor, it will soon be worn threadbare»
«Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men»
«I don't like your miserable lonely single ''front name.'' It is so limited, so meager; it has no versatility; it is weighted down with the sense of responsibility; it is worn threadbare with much use; it is as bad as having only one jacket and one hat; it is like having only one relation, one blood relation, in the world. Never set a child afloat on the flat sea of life with only one sail to catch the wind.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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afloat, bad blood, bad hat, blood relation, flat, jacket, meager, One Blood, sense of responsibility, threadbare, versatility, wear down, weighted, worn
«Eloquence under a threadbare cloak.»
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