The city had struggled through the drabness of poverty and job­lessness in an effort to raise itself from the ashes of long-dead industries.   anvd [Please select]

Could this drabness of life keep up forever, then.   anvd [Please select]

I looked at Willie, still freckled, still literal, still a plodder, at Walter Kinley, and I thought of the drabness of their lives; at Cousin Robert himself as he sat smoking his cigar in the bay-window on that dark February day, and suddenly I pitied him.   anvd [Please select]