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Meanings of dingy place in English

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Usage of dingy place in English
1
It was a dingy place-notso dirty as it looked, I daresay.
Stephen Archer, and Other Tales
2
They pass a dingy place and look in past the doorman.
The new yorker
3
The dingy place reeked with tobacco smoke and the fumes of vile liquor.
The Last Trail
4
They were a scratch lot as seen in that dingy place.
Mr. Standfast
5
It is a great, dingy place, full of chaffering, hungry-looking men.
The Journal of Arthur Stirling : ("The Valley of the Shadow")
6
The telegraph office in the railway station was a dingy place of cobwebbed murk.
A Pagan of the Hills
7
The London of the "sixties" was a very dark and dingy place.
The Days Before Yesterday
8
But in all that dingy place, and thick gloom, were you never at all afraid?'
The Purple Cloud
9
Wolverhampton seems a dingy place for Kathleen to live!
Kathleen
10
She'd already come this far with him, moving into this dark, dingy place that smelled of cat pee.
While i'm falling
11
It was a dingy place, not encumbered with works of art, but with a few books covered with dust.
Damaged Goods / The great play "Les avariés" by Brieux, novelize...
12
She looked around her at the dingy place she stood in, and in imagination threw herself across the lowest step.
A Daughter of To-Day
13
The dingy place smelled of dust, melange, and a faint background odor of urine from a poorly sealed reclamation chamber.
Mentats of Dune
14
Even in that dingy place-perhapsaccentuated by the very dinginess of it-Lily'sblond loveliness struck Rose-Marie with a sense of shock.
The Island of Faith
15
Its rooms were small and little adorned, and not much hope of greatness could ever have sprung from that dingy place.
How To Write Special Feature Articles / A Handbook for Reporters...
16
But part of that time was disturbed for the children were noisy and the apartment was a tiny, dingy place in a basement.
The Pivot of Civilization
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