1.   He was wearing the unobtrusive shabby clothes with soft shoes that would allow him to plod round the streets without being noticed.

2.   She wore shabby black clothes, with holes in the elbows of her jacket.

3.   The drabness of his surroundings, his own shabby clothes were explained and transformed by these books.

4.   But now he sees only shabby Afghan clothes.

5.   He tolerates no shabby clothes, no mumbling, and, most of all, no leaning.

6.   The novices huddle in pained shyness, their shabby clothes, florid makeup and awkward body language clashing with the sleek corporate look of company veterans.

7.   In shabby clothes, her bones discernible through her T-shirt, Izeta Cimalovic stole out of Bihac in northwestern Bosnia to look for food in abandoned Serb homes.

8.   In shabby clothes, hardship etched in their faces, most of the workers refused to talk to reporters.

9.   In shabby clothes, her bones discernible through her T-shirt, Izeta Cimalovic stole out of Bihac in northwestern Bosnia to scavenge for food in abandoned Serb homes.

10.   Their shabby clothes marked them as the urban poor.