Example Sentences

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The first poetry, the first fresh touches with which she had made pleasant signs about their altered condition, were passed into established use, and dulled into wornness and commonness.

From The Other Girls by Whitney, A. D. T. (Adeline Dutton Train)

But even so, he could see a good deal of hard wornness under her satisfaction.

From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

In the degree of their wornness his hat was a match for his coat, and his coat a match for his trowsers, and his trowsers a match for his boots.

From Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life by Beard, Harry