The water from this river, though probably not a fourth of the volume of the Yukon, discolors the water of the latter completely; and a couple of miles, below the junction the whole river appears almost as dirty as White River.

I was as dirty as a collier, my coat was half off my back from my handling on the moor, and there were long rents at the knees of my breeches.

"My old dress is jest as dirty as the floor.

They'd have had the silver, only Mason had thrown it into the plate-chest, all dirty as it was, locked it up and hid the key.

If the Baroness had seen it as dirty as that, what would she have said?

Why, there the women sat around as dirty as dogs on the sidewalk, and didn't seem to care how they looked.

You are as wet and dirty as if you had been digging a well, yet you look as if you liked it," said Helen, as she led Amy into their room at the hotel.

You will be dull in the country if this weather continuebut not so dirty as upon the Macadam.

It is only in these enlightened and progressive times that women desert their husbands when they are tantalizing, or when they do not properly support the family, or spend their time at the clubs or in society,into which it would seem that Socrates was received, even the best, barefooted and dirty as he was, and for his intellectual gifts alone.

No window panes ever had been seen so dirty as those which graced the windowsno rag-carpet so nearly resolved into its component elements, had ever decorated human dwellingand perhaps no legal den, from the commencement of the world to that time, had ever diffused so unmistakeable an odor of parchment, law-calf, and ancient dust!

I don't know that he looked dissipated, and surely he was not as dirty as I had at first supposed.

Refuse pieces lay about on the ground in different stages of decay, and some pieces also in the fire, half buried and sizzling in the ashes, as black and dirty as an old shoe.

As for cleaning either her or the rider, that was not thought of in a country where they were sure to be as dirty as ever in an hour; and so we rode on, after taking a note of the spot, and, as it happened, forgetting it againone of us at least.

Thither we would not be led, all wet and dirty as we were.

"We picked her up one morning homeward bound from Portland, Maine, In a nine-knot grunting cargo tramp, by name the Crown o' Spain; The day was breaking cold and dark and dirty as could be, It was blowin' up for weather as we couldn't help but see.

It and the loose cloth wrapped about the middle of him are as dirty as may be and truly Oriental, though erratic.

I saw only a few villages and a single small town inhabited by Mahrattas, whose appearance is as needy and dirty as those near Kundalla.

I hated to think him as dirty as he has shown himself to be.

Quite unawares I ran full tilt into a group of soldiers, looking as ugly and dirty as the ruins amongst which they were prowling.

The children lay on the old sofa and on the chairs, where they always slept at night until their parents retired, when there was an all-round bawl as they were wakened and bundled into bed, dirty as they were, and very often with their clothes on.

Why are we not all as greedy and dirty as the old cave-men?

His face was dirty as though he had been crying, and a horrid pallid grey in colour.

"A search was instituted, and finally this letter," said Mr. Flint, "worth an earl's coronet, torn and dirty as it is, turned up."

For while the house is kept as close, unaired, and dirty as usual, the window of the sick room is kept a little open always, and the door occasionally.

Whistler insisted that he must be older than that, and turning to his friend he remarked: "I don't think he could get as dirty as that in seven years, do you?"