...This forest is beyond all my expectationsof tropical luxuriance and beauty, and it is a thing of another worldto the forest of the Upper Calabar, which, beautiful as it is, is asad dowdy to this... 
Mary H. Kingsley 「Travels in West Africa」
...If you are to be anornament of fashion, so must I be; for are we not inseparable cronies?And when you become beautiful it would not do for you to be seen withsuch a dowdy as I am...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...It is the rarest of sights to see areal Melbourne girl look dowdy...
R. E. N. (Richard) Twopeny 「Town Life in Australia」
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