As they were going through a quiet street, to her horror and surprise, prominent amidst a crowd of dirty boys, she discovered her little footman, with his elegant blue livery covered with dirt and sketches in white chalk; for, in the excitement of the game, Charlie had not observed that Kinch was engaged in drawing on the back of his coat his favourite illustration, to wit, a skull and cross-bones.

Your livery is totally ruinedand your knees, tooonly look at themthe dirt is completely ground into them.

He found a crack at the side of the stick and dirt chimney, put the muzzle of the gun in there and shot her through her heart.

If you have money they will overwhelm you with presents, looking for a double return; but if you are poor, they will treat you as dirt under their feet.

He is thirty years younger than me, and I would have kept my eyes, but he leaped at me like a wild dog, and knocked me down and pounded me in the dirt.

They are to-day almost the only followers of a primeval calling, tainted little by the dirt of profit-seeking.

All the bareness, dirt, and squalid atmosphere of home they had sought to bring to the South Seas.

The late Mr. Joseph Farror, of this town, at his decease, bequeathed six-pence per week, to be paid for ever, out of rents arising from a house in Bradford-street, for keeping the basement and statue of Lord Nelson clean and free from dirt, which is received by the wardens of St. Martin's church.

Well, dey make sort of drawers out of dirt.

Slave Houses "The slaves lived in log houses, dirt chimneys, plank floors.

(Hard road and ditch in front and cotton field all around it except a few feet of padded dirt and a wood pile.)

"They lived in a log cabin dobbed with dirt and their clothes were woven on a loom.

She stayed off in a little log house with a dirt floor, and she cooked on the fireplace with a skillet and lid, and the house had one window with a shutter.

The dead body of Admiral Coligny [Co.leen.ye] was similarly insulted by Charles IX., Catherine de Medicis, and all the court of France, who spattered blood and dirt on the half-burnt blackened mass.

Everything had to submit to scrubbing and scouring; dirt in no form could be endured by them, and dear as water was in the city, where it was generally sold, still it was in perpetual requisition.

Doctor Southey says "every kind of vermin that exists to punish the nastiness and indolence of man, multiplies in the heat and dirt of Lisbon.

He had seen heaps of them piled in little depressions and the dirt thrown loosely over them, and he remembered that the wolves were at them all a day later.

He says, 'Where no oxen are, the farmer is saved trouble; the clearing away of dirt and refuse; and all the labour required to keep his cattle in condition: but all that trouble,' Solomon says, if a man will but undergo it, will repay itself; 'for much increase is in the strength of the ox.'

But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

They are like a troubled sea, says Isaiah, when it cannot rest, which casts up mire and dirt; and there is no peace to them.

It is not God who casts up the mire and dirt.

They had traversed two miles of the soft dirt road before Chase discovered that Selim was the only man following them.

"The fire that a fellow has to endure on that old oven would kill a horse, and the grit and dirt of clearing it up grinds on my very nerves.

To be called Count of Poictesme sounds well, it strokes the hearing: but I will not be set to root and vegetate in a few hundred spadefuls of dirt.

Lyricists strike pay dirt.