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Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

William Watson
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Affluence was, quite simply, a question of texture ... The threadbare carpets of infancy, the coconut matting, the ill-laid linoleum, the utility furniture ... had all spoken of a life too near the bones of subsistence, too little padded, too severely worn.

Margaret Drabble
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