Here is one that is but little
the worse for wear: I would not ask more than the value of your goose for it--will you buy?' 'How can you ask?' said Hans; 'I should be the happiest man in the world, if I could have money whenever I put my hand in my pocket: what could I want more?
He still wore the fine broadcloth suit in which he had fulfilled his mission, but it was bitterly
the worse for wear, daubed with clay and torn with the sharp briers of the wood.
The partners from Montreal, however, were the lords of the ascendant; coming from the midst of luxurious and ostentatious life, they quite eclipsed their compeers from the woods, whose forms and faces had been battered and hardened by hard living and hard service, and whose garments and equipments were all
the worse for wear. Indeed, the partners from below considered the whole dignity of the company as represented in their persons, and conducted themselves in suitable style.
She never had tried, and probably never would now, being some fourteen or fifteen years of age, short in wind, long in body, and rather
the worse for wear in respect of her mane and tail.
He examined my puttees and my strong tan shoes--a little
the worse for wear now.
Showers of twigs and leaves fell upon them, and predicament followed predicament, until they emerged on the hilltop
the worse for wear but happy and excited.
Her boots are much
the worse for wear. She is no doubt as clean as she can afford to be; but compared to the ladies she is very dirty.
He was a tall man of middle age, with two goggle eyes whereof one was a fixture, a rubicund nose, a cadaverous face, and a suit of clothes (if the term be allowable when they suited him not at all) much
the worse for wear, very much too small, and placed upon such a short allowance of buttons that it was marvellous how he contrived to keep them on.
Beside the couch was a wooden chair, and on the angle of the back hung a very seedy and disreputable hard-felt hat, much
the worse for wear, and cracked in several places.
Then would he cackle forth a feeble laugh, and express a doubt whether his wits--for by that phrase it pleased our ancient friend to signify his mental powers--were not getting a little
the worse for wear.
And earth was heaven a little
the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.
I observed then, for the first time, that the boots he had on were a good deal
the worse for wear, and that his stocking was just breaking out in one place, like a bud.