He would notice little things, like if the girls' shoes were scuffed or worn.
The floors are bare save for a worn Oriental that has been tossed willy-nilly on scuffed hardwood.
He had a plaid shirt on, and colorful beads woven into the laces of his scuffed, canvas sneakers.
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The image of an aristocratic family down on its luck, wearing threadbare jackets and scuffed shoes, comes to mind.
Ty Cobb sat in a corner, his smile a crooked line, and said, I scuffed the ball, my friend.
Obinna scuffed a good opportunity wide when through on goal, and Steele kept out Barrera with two more instinctive saves.
"Men often wear scuffed or worn-down shoes that subvert the effort they spent on the rest of their appearance, " he writes.
Agogo scuffed another shot wide before Smith made an excellent save to tip Mark Gower's shot around the post after 13 minutes.
The only first-half chance for the hosts fell to Australian Cahill, who scuffed his close-range shot straight at Hahnemann after Johnson's cut-back.
The Pars man scuffed a shot against Svensson only for the ball to ricochet off Julien Rodriguez and back to the home midfielder.
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Dagenham's second was gifted to them by their opponents as a scuffed goal-kick from Roche found Scott 40 yards out on the left.
Few things could be less functional than shiny red paint on the sole of a shoe, where it almost immediately will be scuffed.
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Kyle had come close early on with a scuffed finish after Tommy Evans, the Scunthorpe goalkeeper, had done well to thwart Christian Dailly.
It was developing into a pulsating encounter and Chopra might have restored Cardiff's lead from Whittingham's floated cross but the striker scuffed his volley.
Hoolahan narrowly missed from 25 yards and David Fox also went close from even further, while Henri Lansbury saw a slightly scuffed close-range effort saved by Turner.
But the Israel international scuffed his back-pass and Cousin had the presence of mind to nip in and deftly stab the ball past the advancing Hart.
Benayoun jinked his way into the area and dragged a scuffed pass to his captain, and the England midfielder duly took advantage with a low finish.
Gunter cut in from the right to fire a speculative shot over the bar, before Ramsey scuffed his effort wide from the edge of the area.
Bobby Zamora somehow scuffed wide a superbly-worked set-piece shortly after the half-hour mark, while Harewood forced Alec Chamberlain into a fine reflex save from close range.
Owen should have scored almost as soon as he arrived, but he scuffed his shot with Dimitar Berbatov also wasting a chance in the same move.
Torres scuffed an angled finish after Anderson carelessly conceded possession and another culprit was Ramires, who was guilty of an awful miss in the 25th minute.
The visitors went close when Kevin Foley hit the bar and took the lead when a scuffed James Tomkins backpass fell to Kevin Doyle who fired home.
The other part is that it requires a lot of refreshing: Louboutins, which look horrible scuffed, start to depreciate the day you walk them off the lot.
Ross Wallace also picked out an unmarked Jones with a cross from the left but the former Crewe defender scuffed his finish and the ball drifted wide.
Hansen may have had a point, with Mr Lewis not making allowances when players lost footing on the Millennium Stadium turf, which scuffed up horribly once again.
Striker David Villa scuffed a shot which deflected off Diego Godin and -- apparently going wide of the goal -- then hit Gabi before bobbling into Thibaut Courtois' net.
Sneijder exploited gaps on the Chelsea defense and from his pass the best chance fell to Argentine Diego Milito but he scuffed his shot wide of Turnbull and the goal.
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Whittingham was no more than three yards out when he put Mark Kennedy's driven low cross wide, and then McCormack scuffed his shot wide after running clear of the home defence.
But there have also been plenty of scuffed-shoe customers.
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Fletcher and Burnley were buoyed by the goal and the Scotland striker almost got a second only to chest down a cross and see his scuffed shot come back off the post.
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