frowzy

• A frowzy, cocky-looking bird flew into the tree just above her head and balanced himself on the limb. —  The Camp Fire Girls in the Maine Woods Or, The Winnebagos Go Camping
• It was fearfully hot and frowzy--a little stove in the corner threw out a great heat, and the men all began to smoke, which made it worse We stayed a while talking, and then crawled along to visit one of the men's dug-outs, a German bullet just missing us as we passed, and burying itself in a tree. —  Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium ; Russia
• On that "windy, frowzy, barren hill," as Maurice Thompson called it, the two old friends spent together the spring days of '67--such days as lingered in golden beauty in the memory of one of them and have come down to us in immortal verse Again in August of that year he visited Copse Hill, hoping to find health among the pines. —  Literary Hearthstones of Dixie
• It must be that she really ought to be on her way towards the little house, and Sue had promised to return with her And now the train, which had been flying along, slackened its speed, and a frowzy-haired brakeman thrust his head into the car doorway, shouting something, Nancy could not tell what Here we are," said Sue, as she rose to her feet Nancy slipped from the seat, and together they left the car and stepped out upon the platform. —  Dorothy Dainty's Gay Times
• It was all frowzy, jaded, forlorn Somehow suddenly he had a sense of freshness, an illumination, as it were a vision, of the early morning light striking through a network of bare trees upon the shimmering reaches of a river. —  The Frontiersmen

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