After scooping the cardamom seeds out of the cracks in the stone flagging, he handed me the tattered, disreputable-looking copy of "A Modern Circe" with a bow that wouldn't have disgraced a Chesterfield, and then went back to his easel, while I fled after aunt Celia and her verger.英文原著 · 《A Cathedral Courtship》
With a portable still attached to a cooking stove, I obtain half a gallon of water per hour, and with very little trouble. A small tin retort or still connected with a Leibig's condenser, would not add much to the "traps" of the travelling operator, and save him many a disreputable specimen.--T. BAILEY.-- Humphrey's Journal.英文原著 · 《American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype》
Marriage indeed! Who on earth that has money, or credit, or respect in the world to lose, would marry him?'
'It is no use your scolding me, papa. I have done the best I could for him and you.'
'And Madeline is nearly as bad,' said the prebendary, who was in truth, very, very angry. 'Oh, I suppose we are all bad,' replied Charlotte. The old man emitted a huge leonine sigh. If they were all bad, who had made them so? If they were unprincipled, selfish, and disreputable, who was to be blamed for the education which had had so injurious an effect. 'I know you'll ruin me among you,' said he.英文原著 · 《Barchester Towers》
"Why must you drag that child with you wherever you go, Nils?" the mother complained to Hans's father, when the little boy was brought to her in such a disreputable condition. "Why can't you leave him at home? What other man do you know who carries a six-year-old little fellow about with him in rain and shine, storm and quiet?英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
"Beezlebub" Blythe lingered over his cups, polishing his eyeglasses with a disreputable handkerchief.英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
"Not me," said Johnny, promptly and incorrectly, holding up a foot encased in a disreputable deerskin ~zapato~. "I haven't been a victim to shoes in months."英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》