Shuddering, she hinted at the horrible filth and misery she had seen, at the foul scents which had sickened her.

Windows there were none on the lower floors; only here and there an iron-barred slit stuffed with rags and immemorial filth, from which a lean cat would suddenly spring out, and scuttle off under an archway like a witch's familiar.

There was a large window in each room, which was opened at night, and might have served for healthy ventilation, except that there was an accumulation of disgusting filth within a few feet of the building, on that side, sending forth offensive and noisome effluvia, and rendering it doubtful which was the most disagreeable and dangerous, the foul air within or the foul atmosphere without.

I know one of them in which nearly seven hundred men slept together in a great garret, with only one window and a dozen narrow skylights, so that the atmosphere was suffocating above their rows of straw trusses, rarely changed and of indescribable filth.

Where was thy care to rid contagious filth, When some men wet-shod (with his waters) droop'd? Others that ate the eels his heat cast up Sicken'd and died by them impoisoned.

Idiots have existed in all ages, and have commonly vegetated through life in utter wretchedness and degrading filth, concealed from public view.

But if a man comes to me daubed with filth, dirty, with a moustache down to his knees, what can I say to him, by what kind of resemblance can I lead him on?

The costume of both sexes, among the lower orders, consists of broad trousers and long upper garments, and is remarkable for its excessive filth.

The poor animals were horribly maltreated by the natives, who rained blows and flung filth upon them by way of giving concrete expression to their contempt for the Allies.

why were we hurried down This lubrique and adulterate age, (Nay added fat pollutions of our own,) To increase the streaming ordures of the stage? What can we say to excuse our second fall? Let this thy vestal, Heaven, atone for all: Her Arethusian stream remains unsoil'd, Unmix'd with foreign filth, and undefiled: Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child.

Both cities are "smelly," though Venice, even at its worst, stands many degrees above the incredible filth of Srinagar.

The situation is remarkable, and gives a picturesque effect to the place when seen from above, which makes one forget its internal filth.

A young Lisbon dandy hearing an Englishman complain of the intolerable filth and stench of his metropolis, retorted that, for his part, when he was in London, it was the absence of that filth, and the want of the smells complained of, that had rendered his residence in our metropolis so disagreeable and uncomfortable to him.

When I think of the white houses, the green blinds, and the flower plots, of the villages in New England, and look at these dwellings of lazy filth and inert degradation, it does seem amazing to think that physical and moral conditions so widely opposite should be found among people occupying a similar place in the social scale of the same country.

That moon, before reaching the apogee of its brilliance, will light the Philippines cleansed of loathsome filth!" Simoun, stopped suddenly, as though interrupted.

After the day's work I would crawl with a dying sigh into the sleeping-bag, clad still in the load of skins which stuck to me a mere filth of grease, to sleep the sleep of a swine, indifferent if I never woke.

For one thing it is clean dirt, nothing but pure mother earth, and not the nasty unctuous filth of city courts and back lanes.

He means, my Lord, a Louse that has been fattened on the head of a Gipsy or Tinker, undisturbed by the comb or nail, and unmolested in the enjoyment of its native filth.

Their villages are not concrete masses of picturesque filth, as are those of the Moslems, but are loosely scattered among orchards of mulberry, poplar, and vine, washed by fresh rills, and have an air of comparative neatness and comfort.

Simpson, still dazed, followed him into the Grand Ruea street of smells and piled filth, where gorged buzzards, reeking of the tomb, flapped upward under his nose from the garbage and offal of their feast.

For our car was littered with sausage skins and bread crusts, and filth less pleasant to look at and stenches of many sorts abounded.

Where there is overcrowding, the collections of putrescible filth are multiplied, and with them probably the productive foci of infective particles.

Peter's denunciation of the sanguinary filth of the court of Romeall these sublimities, and many more, make us not know whether to be more astonished at the greatness of the poet or the raging littleness of the man.

But you have only to see idolatry at work, and at work with the habits of ages upon it, to recognize how terrible it can be in its identification of sheer filth and cruelty with the interests of religion, and how it at once demoralizes and paralyzes its adherents.

For one thing it is clean dirt, nothing but pure mother earth, and not the nasty unctuous filth of city courts and back lanes.