Crumbling sheds and unpainted houses, bony cattle drooping over fences.

Several windows were slammed down, and a fat woman darted into the street and pulled some small children inside a rickety, unpainted house.

On the outside, Dresden seems as drab as an unpainted house.

Wharton looked at the battered, unpainted house and littered yard and said she intended to write a story about a place like that.

But the unkempt fields, the unpainted houses, the lines of boarded-up stores a half kilometer long, the worn look of the people.

Two rows of unpainted houses, each with a front veranda, faced each other on either side of the road.

Just a tense period one winter when four adults lived in a small unpainted house and tried to be cordial.

And it had been Trot who'd yelled at Hank to stop torturing me about our little unpainted, sodbuster house.

They attacked the unpainted house with a vengeance.

The girl was moving along a sanded walk, toward a gray, unpainted house, with a steep roof, broken by dormer windows.