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  • He arranged lodgings for them under the name of Dolling in a nondescript boardinghouse on a side street.†   (source)
  • They had pulled into a muddy parking lot that surrounded a nondescript building with several rows of windows.†   (source)
  • What I saw was not the nondescript factory building it had been when my father first worked there.†   (source)
  • He arrived at the nondescript door and rang the bell.†   (source)
  • Into a nondescript one-story building on the western side of the compound, passing through a security door marked AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL ONLY.†   (source)
  • Pattie has picked out a red Formica table with four nondescript dining chairs, a stuffed lemon-colored sofa, and a leather lounger that swivels in a complete circle.†   (source)
  • "Will you look at that," he says, pointing to another nondescript picture.†   (source)
  • The three other women were all wearing some nondescript sort of coarse gray stuff.†   (source)
  • The landscape jerks forward, falls away, the train casting a passing shadow on an expanse of nondescript buildings.†   (source)
  • The key to his development is that he stumbled across that nondescript building on Beal Avenue.†   (source)
  • The short, nondescript girl with a secret burning inside of her like a fire.†   (source)
  • It was a nondescript enough shape.†   (source)
  • He thought of Danny again, but Danny's face was pleasantly fuzzed and nondescript now.†   (source)
  • The second male hovered unobtrusively behind them, slighter than the leader, his light brown hair and regular features both nondescript.†   (source)
  • Ty Gospodinov, the Circle's boy-wonder visionary, was wearing nondescript glasses and an enormous hoodie, staring leftward and smiling; he seemed to be enjoying some moment, alone, tuned into some distant frequency.†   (source)
  • It sits on a nondescript street in a new shopping complex not far from Dachau, the first concentration camp opened by the Nazis.†   (source)
  • I tried to look nondescript, with an oil-stained coat over unpressed denim pants.†   (source)
  • Light hair, washed-out eyes, pinkish nose, nondescript mouth and chin, sweaty-type complexion, average jowls, slumped shoulders, big hands and feet.†   (source)
  • He'd flown from San Francisco down to Santa Barbara in the company helicopter, and rented a nondescript-looking Ford at the small airport.†   (source)
  • She knew it had been taken at least twenty years ago, not because of the clothes they were wearing—which, like most Shadowhunter gear, were nondescript and black—but because she recognized her mother instantly: Jocelyn, no more than seventeen or eighteen, her hair halfway down her back and her face a little rounder, the chin and mouth less defined.†   (source)
  • At Second and Hill, he's gotten creative with the drab, nondescript slab where he kills so many hours each day.†   (source)
  • She didn't run into a single person as she made her way quickly to their flat, where she slipped out of her gown and into a pair of nondescript pants, piling her hair under a hat.†   (source)
  • It sounded true, and I recognized it. the way you recognize some nondescript person that's been hanging around your door for ages and then suddenly comes up and introduces himself as your real father and looks exactly like you, so you know he really is your father, and the person you thought all your life was your father is a sham.†   (source)
  • So sometimes, when we were studying, we'd get in her car and drive to Edgewater—just this little nondescript place.†   (source)
  • You saw a nondescript man in a black ski mask.†   (source)
  • Fonzi ushered us to a nondescript car, parked on the street.†   (source)
  • When Uncle Al discovers that city officials have yet to itemize the Fox Brothers baggage stock, a handful of nondescript horses get spirited from one stable tent to another.†   (source)
  • They had to break twice more before they reached their destination, a nondescript door recessed in the inner wall of the corridor.†   (source)
  • It was small, no bigger than a pea, sewn into the otherwise nondescript shirt.†   (source)
  • At the federal building on South Dearborn, I was taken upstairs to a nondescript conference room and deposited, with the less-rattled officer to guard me.†   (source)
  • It was in a fairly nondescript building, uninspired government layer cake, with windowless concrete walls, a large air-conditioning system on a flat roof, and an acronym-coded blue sign on a well-tended but now yellowed lawn.†   (source)
  • He tumbled along with the racetrackers, and soon found himself buying a few nondescript Mexican horses and traveling down to attend their races.†   (source)
  • " That night when their squadron boarded a nondescript passenger jet heading to Afghanistan, Heath asked Adam, "You got your waders?"†   (source)
  • "For six hundred dollars a month, Mortenson rented a small wood-paneled office space in a nondescript building a block from Bozeman's Main Street, and hired four employees to schedule his speaking engagements, produce a newsletter, maintain a website, and manage CAI's growing database of donors.†   (source)
  • But when asked to describe Rene or to recall any remarkable incidents, Jules could only say what people would say about nondescript Rene all his life: "He was a nice guy."†   (source)
  • I'm wearing jeans and a black V-neck T-shirt, both a little—okay, a lot—tighter than they need to be, but otherwise completely nondescript.†   (source)
  • In movies and in life, the burly men in white suits who stand on either side of a mental patient are nondescript and indistinguishable.†   (source)
  • Did you expect us to just sit by while you destroyed your future by becoming a vampyre nobody at some nondescript foreign House of Night?" her mom said.†   (source)
  • Transito Soto conducted me to a room that was nondescript but clean; its only sign of extravagance was a series of frescoes that were poor copies of the ones at Pompeii, which some mediocre painter had reproduced on the walls, and a large, slightly rusty antique bathtub with running water.†   (source)
  • Gold necklace with a nondescript gold pendant that looked vaguely like a dolphin.†   (source)
  • It came from one nondescript shack, near the center of the block, owned by Umberto Macias.†   (source)
  • Next stop, the Capucines and a nondescript Peugeot in an underground garage.†   (source)
  • Capitol Hill comprised a few stores, a few nondescript hotels and boardinghouses clustered near a half-finished sandstone Capitol.†   (source)
  • The alchemist wore a hooded traveler's cloak, brown and nondescript.†   (source)
  • The bodice of her dress was ragged, a nondescript tawny colour, with stains on it.†   (source)
  • A nondescript black sedan pulled to a stop by the house.†   (source)
  • The grandstands were rapidly filling with people, and Dr. Ferris kept interrupting himself constantly to wave to nondescript newcomers, whom Dr. Stadler had never seen before, but who were personages, as he could tell by the particular shade of gaily informal deference in Ferns' waving.†   (source)
  • Alexander rode up: a young man; nondescript face but very capable.†   (source)
  • But as I was driving out of town, frustrated and still fuming over my reception in a little nondescript sporting goods store, I saw a beer joint with about fifteen cars parked around it.†   (source)
  • He was a shorthaired dog, gray with black and brown spots — to call him nondescript would be a kindness.†   (source)
  • The others were clearly his assistants-nondescript individuals, whose origins Stormgren would be able to place when he heard them talk.†   (source)
  • I felt desolate in my white Arrow shirt and its rolled-up sleeves and with my nondescript baggy slacks.†   (source)
  • So that Mahesh, from running a nondescript little hardware shop, found himself at the centre of things in our town.†   (source)
  • He wore badly scuffed boots, blue jeans, and a shirt of a nondescript grayish color.†   (source)
  • And all sorts of nondescript odds and ends were sold all over the market, going up in price as they changed hands.†   (source)
  • He looked at him steadily, memorizing for all time the nondescript, dusty figure with the wide gray eyes and the sandy hair.†   (source)
  • They seemed to be standing on some kind of nondescript, flat surface.   (source)
    nondescript = lacking distinct or individual characteristics
  • Little disregarded patches of ground revealed that they had been gardens all along, and nondescript underbrush around the gymnasium and the river broke into color.   (source)
    nondescript = lacking distinction
  • Hermione drew out Bellatrix's wand and rapped a brick in the nondescript wall in front of them.†   (source)
  • A nondescript two-story white rectangle among a cluster of other nondescript white rectangles.†   (source)
  • The most nondescript of all the Cullens' cars was still outrageous on this street.†   (source)
  • Under the shrouds, their clothes were modern, pale, and nondescript.†   (source)
  • A nondescript man with a stubble of a beard pointed at the booth.†   (source)
  • Other than the sunglasses, she's entirely nondescript.†   (source)
  • A middle-aged woman in a neat but nondescript plain blue dress cautiously stood up.†   (source)
  • His hair was washed out, either pale brown or a dark, nondescript blond.†   (source)
  • If he did answer Rachelle or Johan, it was with a nondescript putoff.†   (source)
  • The building was nondescript; the work inside was not.†   (source)
  • When I'm naked, they're strangely nondescript.†   (source)
  • Instead, a simple exchange of license plates and a nondescript black Renault in the crowded streets.†   (source)
  • She had brought along some nondescript-looking sandwiches too, but these lay uneaten.†   (source)
  • A shape, red with white wings around the face, a shape like mine, a nondescript woman in red carrying a basket, comes along the brick sidewalk towards me.†   (source)
  • An endless blur of normal people doing normal things, eyes straight ahead of them, paying no attention to the short, nondescript girl with a lumpy backpack pushing past them.†   (source)
  • That had been the first phase of his relationship with his father, and as it was drawing to its end he had become aware that Becky and his brothers, all of them older, hated the father and that their mother, a nondescript woman who rarely spoke above a mutter, only suffered him because her Catholic upbringing said that she must.†   (source)
  • He noted the location of the Chamber of Commerce, a small nondescript brick building set at the edge of town, and headed back toward the highway.†   (source)
  • At last he spotted Elva sitting in front of a small, nondescript tent, weaving a cat's cradle by the light of a dying fire.†   (source)
  • His nose was nondescript.†   (source)
  • They were led into a small room on the second floor of the nondescript two-story building that housed Gottman's operations, and they sat down about five feet apart on two office chairs mounted on raised platforms.†   (source)
  • She fell to the pavement as her would-be executioner dragged her toward a small nondescript black sedan.†   (source)
  • The result was acceptable: With her hair pulled back under a floppy wide-brimmed sunhat, she was a plain-looking woman in a pleated skirt and a nondescript grey blouse that concealed any outline of a figure.†   (source)
  • The waiting room has several nondescript blondwood chairs in it, with seats upholstered in olive green, and three end tables.†   (source)
  • I saw how she'd come to this cold city, driving by night in a stolen car chosen for its nondescript appearance.†   (source)
  • Before this he used to be nondescript, sitting in his room with his computer, a quiet kid just turned twenty.†   (source)
  • The overbrained boy of the thirty-two pieces and the million trillion combinations liked to nestle in his designated slot, listening to Sister's voice repeat all the cautions and commands like a siren lifting and dipping in the dopplered haze of another nondescript day.†   (source)
  • JFCOM occupies two rather nondescript low-slung concrete buildings at the end of a curving driveway in Suffolk, Virginia, a few hours' drive south and east of Washington, D.C. Just before the entrance to the parking lot, hidden from the street, is a small guard hut.†   (source)
  • They crossed the border in full darkness, business suits and regimental ties replacing the rumpled, nondescript clothes they had worn previously.†   (source)
  • The bathroom is like the bathrooms of service stations, on out-of-the-way roads, up north: a brown ring around the toilet bowl, which is likely to contain floating cigarette butts, handprints on the towels, if any, nondescript pieces of paper here and there on the floor.†   (source)
  • He wanted to show his tolerance of her viewpoint, allow himself to be convinced by some of her arguments, make certain trenchant points of his own and then drive her to the nondescript room where she lived at the edge of this or that town, with a partial view of the mountains, and have soft, moaning and mutually tolerant sex in her rumpled bed, but he slowed only slightly as he drove past.†   (source)
  • The Soviet backup was a nondescript sedan on the far shoulder of the road diagonally across from the restaurant.†   (source)
  • I walked right past my hotel and kept on going, a nondescript building near Times Square, where they'd give me a candle and show me the door that led to the stairwell, but I wanted to keep on walking, and where I'd only have to climb five flights, but I wanted to walk into the night and see this thing.†   (source)
  • "What do you see?" asked Alex, gesturing at a shabby, nondescript brown car below on the avenue Montaigne.†   (source)
  • They'll be watched, and within days-hours perhaps-a nondescript black Renault will be seen and he'll be found.†   (source)
  • They raced south out of Paris in the nondescript Peugeot, taking the Barbizon highway to "For God's sake, talk to me!" she cried.†   (source)
  • The old man and the nondescript gray car in which he sat was blown apart, sending the Citroën swerving to the left into the ancient post-and-rail fence that bordered the sunken parking lot on the side of the inn.†   (source)
  • Miss Eckhart, a heavy brunette woman whose age was not known, sat during the lessons on the nondescript chair, which her body hid altogether, in apparent disregard for body and chair alike.†   (source)
  • Beyond the field, crowding up against the horizon, were the bedraggled and nondescript scrubby woods, already beginning to turn the leaden hue of the Galician autumn.†   (source)
  • The cubbyhole of a room we took for seven dollars was drab and stifling, and its exposure on a nondescript back street let in feeble light from the midday sun.†   (source)
  • This view contained some nondescript subjects—in the foreground a brown grassless drill field, a small wooden barracks, the electrified wires hemming in an incongruous stand of graceful poplars—but it also presented a glimpse of the railroad platform where the selections were made.†   (source)
  • A large rambling wood and stucco house of the nondescript variety erected, I should imagine, sometime before or just after the First World War, it would have faded into the homely homogeneity of other large nondescript dwellings that bordered on Prospect Park had it not been for its striking—its overwhelming—pinkness.†   (source)
  • We were next introduced to Miss Saunders, a nondescript female, who completed the party.†   (source)
  • Or, to put it differently, they looked like everybody else, nondescript.†   (source)
  • Plender and Wilcox became joint grooms of the chambers, like "Blues" and Life Guards with equal precedence, Plender having as his particular province his Lordship's own apartments and Wilcox a sphere of influence in the public rooms; the senior footman was given a black coat and promoted butler, the nondescript Swiss, on arrival, was to have plain clothes and full valet's status; there was a general increase in wages to meet the new dignities, and all were content.†   (source)
  • Following the man was a horde of nondescript men, women, and children, waving clubs, stones, and pitchforks.†   (source)
  • The first house was nondescript.†   (source)
  • I have already forgotten what Leonard and I talked about at lunch; and at tea; although it was a good day the goodness was embedded in a kind of nondescript cotton wool.†   (source)
  • There he saw the man whom he took to be Mr. Simms, a nondescript fellow in a plug hat, and beyond him the figure of a woman.†   (source)
  • The clay-coloured, earthy nondescript animal of the field here erects himself and with infinite ingenuity and effort puts up a fight against the green woods and green fields and sheep advancing with measured tread, munching.†   (source)
  • Here the two of them sit in the minister's study, talking quietly: the slight, nondescript man who is utterly unaware that he is a man of mystery among his fellow workers, and the fifty-yearold outcast who has been denied by his church.†   (source)
  • …yet who did not do it because I should have had to say 'Don't talk to me of love but let me tell you, who know already more of love than you will ever know or need' Then my father returned and came for me and took me home and I became again that nondescript too long a child yet too short a woman, in the fitless garments which my aunt had left behind, keeping a fides: house, who was not spying, hiding, but waiting, watching, for no reward, no thanks, who did not love him in the sense we…†   (source)
  • He stood quietly in the chill peace, the waking quiet--small, nondescript, whom no man or woman had ever turned to look at twice anywhere.†   (source)
  • They see one another at the same moment: the two faces, the mild, nondescript, bloody one and the lean, harried, desperate one contorted now in a soundless shouting above the noise of the train, passing one another as though on opposite orbits and with an effect as of phantoms or apparitions.†   (source)
  • He was too poor—too nondescript a relative of the Griffiths.†   (source)
  • A few small nondescript stars were appearing elsewhere.†   (source)
  • It was too old and brown, the neighborhood too nondescript, if conservative.†   (source)
  • The nondescript had known her many years.†   (source)
  • The nondescript knew two Miss Dorrits; one who was born inside—That was the one!†   (source)
  • In regard of the other Miss Dorrit, the nondescript lodged in the same house with herself and uncle.†   (source)
  • Tess did not stop at Weatherbury, after this long drive, further than to make a slight nondescript meal at noon at a cottage to which the farmer recommended her.†   (source)
  • …and started to 'set,' puffed them and glazed them and fluted them and swelled them into an invisible though not impalpable country cake, an immense puff-pastry, in which, barely waiting to savour the crustier, more delicate, more respectable, but also drier smells of the cupboard, the chest-of-drawers, and the patterned wall-paper I always returned with an unconfessed gluttony to bury myself in the nondescript, resinous, dull, indigestible, and fruity smell of the flowered quilt.†   (source)
  • Two of the brutes were Wolf-beasts, and came forward with quivering nostrils and glittering eyes; the third was the horrible nondescript of bear and bull.†   (source)
  • Such a senseless lie, too, yet it shattered her nerves and made her connect these Emersons, friends of Cecil's, with a pair of nondescript tourists.†   (source)
  • Then, while a seedy-looking nondescript man carrying a leather bag stood on the steps of St. Paul's Cathedral, and hesitated, for within was what balm, how great a welcome, how many tombs with banners waving over them, tokens of victories not over armies, but over, he thought, that plaguy spirit of truth seeking which leaves me at present without a situation, and more than that, the cathedral offers company, he thought, invites you to membership of a society; great men belong to it;…†   (source)
  • His lean bronzed head, with white moustaches, looked fine and calm on the pillow, like the head of a war-worn soldier with a child-like soul, had it not been for a hint of spectral alarm that lurked in the blank glitter of his glance, resembling a nondescript form of a terror crouching silently behind a pane of glass.†   (source)
  • All the same, Hans Castorp found her excitability, or at least her discussion of it, somehow inappropriate, almost indecent for such a nondescript, insignificant creature.†   (source)
  • I was now, it seemed, cut off upon both sides; behind me the murderers, before me this lurking nondescript.†   (source)
  • Findle, a nondescript man-about-Bisty's, answered incoherently and turned back to the brilliant blonde whom he was endeavoring to steer around the room.†   (source)
  • He, too, as Clyde learned after a time, was of a nondescript family, and so had profited by no social or financial advantages of any kind.†   (source)
  • They were sixteen in all: two runaway blue-jackets, a lanky deserter from a Yankee man-of-war, a couple of simple, blond Scandinavians, a mulatto of sorts, one bland Chinaman who cooked—and the rest of the nondescript spawn of the South Seas.†   (source)
  • …side by side with the argicultural labourers, an interesting and better-informed class, ranking distinctly above the former—the class to which Tess's father and mother had belonged—and including the carpenter, the smith, the shoemaker, the huckster, together with nondescript workers other than farm-labourers; a set of people who owed a certain stability of aim and conduct to the fact of their being lifeholders like Tess's father, or copyholders, or occasionally, small freeholders.†   (source)
  • And as they sang, the nondescript and indifferent street audience gazed, held by the peculiarity of such an unimportant group publicly raising its voice against the vast skepticism and apathy of life.†   (source)
  • …about the village as one of three—all nearly of the same year—walking home from school side by side; Tess the middle one—in a pink print pinafore, of a finely reticulated pattern, worn over a stuff frock that had lost its original colour for a nondescript tertiary—marching on upon long stalky legs, in tight stockings which had little ladder-like holes at the knees, torn by kneeling in the roads and banks in search of vegetable and mineral treasures; her then earth-coloured hair hanging…†   (source)
  • Furniture of both an earlier and a later date, but all in a somewhat decayed condition, intermingled and furnished it in some nondescript manner which need hardly be described.†   (source)
  • As they sang, this nondescript and indifferent street audience gazed, held by the peculiarity of such an unimportant-looking family publicly raising its collective voice against the vast skepticism and apathy of life.†   (source)
  • Yet in the face of all this, and after an hour spent with Jephson and Belknap in his cell, finding himself back in the courtroom, under the persistent gaze of this nondescript jury and the tensely interested audience.†   (source)
  • …demonstration of any kind—Clyde himself, attempting to look as jaunty and nonchalant as possible, yet because of the many rough and strange faces about him—men in heavy racoon coats and caps, and with thick whiskers, or in worn and faded and nondescript clothes such as characterized many of the farmers of this region, accompanied by their wives and children, and all staring so strangely and curiously—he felt not a little nervous, as though at any moment there might be a revolver shot,…†   (source)
  • And after dinner he made his way out into the principal thoroughfares of Lycurgus, only to observe such a crowd of nondescript mill-workers as, judging these streets by day, he would not have fancied swarmed here by night—girls and boys, men and women of various nationalities, and types—Americans, Poles, Hungarians, French, English—and for the most part—if not entirely touched with a peculiar something—ignorance or thickness of mind or body, or with a certain lack of taste and…†   (source)
  • It consisted in its entirety of one long store floor in an old and decidedly colorless and inartistic wooden building which was situated in that part of Kansas City which lies north of Independence Boulevard and west of Troost Avenue, the exact street or place being called Bickel, a very short thoroughfare opening off Missouri Avenue, a somewhat more lengthy but no less nondescript highway.†   (source)
  • She crossed to an old, faded and somewhat decrepit over-stuffed chair which stood in the center of the room beside a small table whereon lay some nondescript books and magazines—the Saturday Evening Post, Munsey's, the Popular Science Monthly, Bebe's Garden Seeds, and to escape most distracting and searing thoughts, sat down, her chin in her hands, her elbows planted on her knees.†   (source)
  • An exhorter—a secret preacher—one, who in defiance of all the tenets and processes of organized and historic, as well as hieratic, religious powers and forms (theological seminaries, organized churches and their affiliations and product—all carefully and advisedly and legitimately because historically and dogmatically interpreting the word of God) choosing to walk forth and without ordination after any fashion conduct an unauthorized and hence nondescript mission.†   (source)
  • And now this American witness to the rule of God upon earth, sitting in a chair in her shabby, nondescript apartment, hard-pressed for the very means to sustain herself—degraded by the milling forces of life and the fell and brutal blows of chance—yet serene in her trust—and declaring: "I cannot think this morning.†   (source)
  • A sixth was a nondescript, representing "a man with a shirt-collar open," to use the language of Richard, "with a laurel on his head-it was Julius Caesar or Dr. Faustus; there were good reasons for believing either," The walls were hung with a dark lead-colored English paper that represented Britannia weeping over the tomb of Wolfe, The hero himself stood at a little distance from the mourning goddess, and at the edge of the paper.†   (source)
  • In thoroughfares nigh the docks, any considerable seaport will frequently offer to view the queerest looking nondescripts from foreign parts.†   (source)
  • The nondescript replied in encouraging terms, and brought him to a coffee-shop in the street within a stone's throw.†   (source)
  • It was the old-fashioned wheeled nondescript belonging to the captain, and Thomasin sat in it alone, driven by Charley.†   (source)
  • As soon as the men of the various regiments began to disperse among the wealthy and deserted houses, the army was lost forever and there came into being something nondescript, neither citizens nor soldiers but what are known as marauders.†   (source)
  • A great space surrounded by tall ugly houses, with an ugly church at the corner and a nondescript ugly cupolaed building at my back; the roadway thronged with a sweltering and excited crowd, dominated by omnibuses crowded with spectators.†   (source)
  • It was a stormy, windy night, such as raises whole squadrons of nondescript noises in rickety old houses.†   (source)
  • Besides, the English whalers sometimes affect a kind of metropolitan superiority over the American whalers; regarding the long, lean Nantucketer, with his nondescript provincialisms, as a sort of sea-peasant.†   (source)
  • There was a string of people already straggling in, whom it was not difficult to identify as the nondescript messengers, go-betweens, and errand-bearers of the place.†   (source)
  • This changed the client's half-formed design of remaining at the coffee-shop until the nondescript should bring him word that Dorrit had issued forth into the street.†   (source)
  • He entrusted the nondescript with a confidential message to her, importing that the visitor who had waited on her father last night, begged the favour of a few words with her at her uncle's lodging; he obtained from the same source full directions to the house, which was very near; dismissed the nondescript gratified with half-a-crown; and having hastily refreshed himself at the coffee-shop, repaired with all speed to the clarionet-player's dwelling.†   (source)
  • Then they trot you out some kind of a nondescript, wouldn't know what to call her.†   (source)
  • The English have nothing equivalent to the gaudy tin soldiers of our governors' staffs, nor to the bespangled colonels and generals of the Knights Templar and Patriarchs Militant, nor to the nondescript captains and majors of our country towns.†   (source)
  • BLOOM: (Pigeonbreasted, bottleshouldered, padded, in nondescript juvenile grey and black striped suit, too small for him, white tennis shoes, bordered stockings with turnover tops and a red schoolcap with badge) I was in my teens, a growing boy.†   (source)
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