"Careworn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... from the North in a few days looking, if possible, thinner and more careworn than when he went. He had found the strike a very stubborn business. Burrows was riding the storm triumphantly; and while upon his own side Tressady looked in vain for a "man," there was a dogged determination ...
— Sir George Tressady, Vol. II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... tenderly at her young partner; but the latter assumed a still more important and careworn aspect, ...
— A Nobleman's Nest • Ivan Turgenieff
... thoughtfully over the poor cowering wretch. Those careworn features were familiar, somehow. Where had he seen the man before? Suddenly he stiffened, choking an exclamation. The man was bound immovably to his seat. Thin metal links, almost invisible, encircled his feet; held the elbows taut against the ...
— Slaves of Mercury • Nat Schachner
... what was worse had Katy known it, Mrs. Page attacked Dr. Carr upon the subject. He was quite troubled to learn that she considered Katy grave and careworn, and unlike what girls of her age should be. Katy caught him looking at ...
— What Katy Did At School • Susan Coolidge
... The Doctor looked careworn, and older, I thought, by several years, than when I last saw him. He was not shown up to my uncle's room; on the contrary, Milly, who was more actively curious than I, ascertained that our tremulous butler informed him that my uncle was not sufficiently ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
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