frowsiness

How can a woman hope to keep the joyful respect and admiration of her loved one if she allows herself to degenerate into frowsiness, to wear curl papers, caps, and mussy negligees all day long?

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How can a woman hope to keep the joyful respect and admiration of her loved one if she allows herself to degenerate into frowsiness, to wear curl papers, caps, and mussy negligees all day long?

VALUE OF INTEREST IN CLOTHES 2005

Thence I stumbled up the ladder, dived overboard, and buried bad dreams, stiffness, frowsiness, and tormented nerves in the loveliest fiord of the lovely Baltic.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

And nothing makes so much for frowsiness in the cotton plant, and in woman, as to know they are not wanted.

The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills John Trotwood Moore

The woman was kindling the fire hastily and grumbling when he went into the sitting-room, still in its state of early morning frowsiness.

Married Life The True Romance May Edginton 1920

I was feeling better now, with all the frowsiness washed out of me, and

Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907

She may have seemed handsome enough in profile under the lamps, but a frowsiness was apparent this morning; and the sight of her own fresh charms in the looking-glass made Sue's manner bright, till she reflected what a meanly sexual emotion this was in her, and hated herself for it.

Jude the Obscure 1896

She may have seemed handsome enough in profile under the lamps, but a frowsiness was apparent this morning; and the sight of her own fresh charms in the looking-glass made Sue's manner bright, till she reflected what a meanly sexual emotion this was in her, and hated herself for it.

Jude the Obscure 1894

The weather is but lukewarm, and I should choose to have all the windows shut, if my smelling was not much more summerly than my feeling; but the frowsiness of obsolete tapestry and needlework is insupportable.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757