His talk was disconnected, owing probably to the fact that he was racking his brain for facts relative to the seamy side of shipbroking.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs
It was not that marriage in the abstract had any attraction for her, for the thought of it rather jarred on her temperament, and it was, perhaps, not altogether astonishing that she had of late been brought into contact chiefly with the seamy side of the masculine character.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
He dwells upon the seamy side of life, and if critics, attracted by his undeniable brilliance, have found his heroines charming, to me it seems that they are the kind of young women whom, if I adopted his moral code, I should think most desirable wives-for my friends.
"English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century"
Leslie Stephen