The moldy brown carpet was covered by a cheap and threadbare burgundy-colored Afghan rug.
It's a noisy, threadbare patchwork, but the tune shines in spite of it all.
My classmates wore clothes that were threadbare even by the standards of rural China back then.
"Our squad is threadbare at the moment, we always said that last year, " said Sharp.
Meanwhile, two threadbare local filmmakers (Halley Feiffer and Hector Jimenez) also get hold of the property.
The threadbare inventory the authors discovered in the village store outside Hyderabad is only one example.
An old priest stood on the steps of the school, a threadbare black coat over his cassock.
His boasts about his threadbare boyhood must have caused his respected, middle-class family to cringe a little.
But the town's threadbare garrisons suggest the army and gendarmerie would be ill-prepared to take the offensive.
The threadbare charges and countercharges being hurled from the chambers of the failed deficit supercommittee are depressingly predictable.
The importance of such human investment is also dawning on an unlikely business sector: China's threadbare state-owned enterprises.
Assange, in the terminal, carried a threadbare blue backpack that contained hard drives, phone cards, and multiple cell phones.
The image of an aristocratic family down on its luck, wearing threadbare jackets and scuffed shoes, comes to mind.
If the brand can hang on with its threadbare lineup until 2015, three new Chrysler vehicles are to arrive then.
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Like everyone else on the corner, he is wearing a generic threadbare soccer tracksuit, the ubiquitous uniform of the terminally poor.
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DC, prompting the Chilean tax office to sue him for back taxes, destroyed his already threadbare myth of being an honest dictator.
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It has the most malaria cases in Asia, and with the healthcare system threadbare, it is ill-equipped to introduce systems for monitoring and containment.
His head which used to rotate has been sown back on to the torso twice and he is threadbare with hardly any fur left.
Imagine a large cartographic quilt, tightly stitched in parts but with ragged and jagged edges, with bright patches and threadbare ones in the middle.
If it doesn't, the rest of the official safety net is more threadbare than in 2008, when policymakers pulled out all the stops (see table).
Michael Clarke, Callum Ferguson, Nathan Bracken and Brad Haddin were already on the injured list before Australia named their squad, leaving their current resources threadbare.
Life insurers spy opportunity in the crumbling of India's traditional extended families and the threadbare social safety-net, which can be padded out only with private savings.
We're not as much of a fan of the threadbare 16GB of storage that's supposedly in the cards, though, even with a new Android 4.1.2 build in store.
But the impressive infrastructure built in the 1970s during the first oil boom is starting to look threadbare, and the country's oil wealth is still very unevenly distributed.
Many foreigners today are threadbare students, overworked managers, trailing spouses.
All of which leaves the basic thesis really rather threadbare.
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But Alliance's Stephen Farry pointed out that the security of donors argument seems increasingly threadbare, given there is no record of people who have signed party nomination forms being targeted.
Even Bhutto applauded when he binned the law that had allowed the president to dismiss a PM with the most threadbare of excuses -- usually at the behest of the military.
It meant an entire team was unavailable - nine out injured and two Cup-tied in Johnny Heitinga and Lucas Neill - so Moyes had a threadbare, inexperienced squad at his disposal.
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