For an instant I thought the gun had misfired, but then I saw the ruffian stop, as a steady dark stain spread across his threadbare shirt.

The skiff was tossed about a little by the waves resulting from Temeraire's frolics, and occasionally swamped, but Laurence had prudently worn only an old pair of breeches and his most threadbare shirt.

First and foremost she was in her night attire, if night attire was not too grand a term to describe the slightly ratty, threadbare old man's shirt she was wearing.

He put on a threadbare shirt over his shorts and, taking the lantern, he crossed the floor to the single open window.

Generally this works, but last week I felt the need to unburden myself of two threadbare shirts that even I realised had outlived any usefulness.

But you wear old clothes and Kaelin has threadbare shirts.

His trousers were torn and tattered, buttons were missing from his faded, almost threadbare shirt, but he held himself erect and looked directly into Santana's eyes as he spoke.

His clothes were in as beleaguered a state as the rest of him; his threadbare shirt and jeans glued to his malnourished body with filth.

Inside Nazma's classroom, her teacher, in a threadbare white shirt and trousers, gripped his bamboo rod and demanded angrily, "Two plus two, who knows the answer?"

She was in khaki shorts and a man's threadbare white shirt with the sleeves rolled up.