He found, even in the prisons of his own humane and enlightened country, an accumulation of the most hideous abuses: he found them not nurseries of penitence and amendment, but schools of vice and impiety; or dens of filth, famine, and disease: not the seats of just and salutary correction and punishment, but the strong holds of cruelty and extortion.

Then, crawling on hands and knees through the filth and mire, they pulled these trucks as cattle would drag them, whilst their backs were bruised and wounded by knocking against the low roof.

The water was running over the roadway several inches deep, carrying with it a mass of garbage and filth which only Arab villagers would tolerate.

German workmen do not read the Vorwärts (its circulation is well under 100,000), but they read one or other of the seventy purveyors of filth and class hatred which form the stock-in-trade of the Social Democratic Party.

Why, he would be clean and dry here, and all his life he had been used to dirty, damp Penhollow, with the trees hanging over him, and his little feet in a mass of filth and dead leaves.

Their skins are plastered up with filth, and as the poison in them can't escape that way it's coming out through the milk, and you're helping to dispose of it.'

They do not, however, exceed the Maltese and Sicilians, and many other people of the neighbourhood, in filth, and perhaps the Moors are cleaner in their hahits than they.

But the Moors pretend that lime-washing is necessary to the preservation of the houses from the weather, as well as from filth of all sorts.

We think really it is useful, by preventing dirty people in many cases from being eaten up by their own filth and vermin, particularly the Jews, the Tunisian Jews being the dirtiest persons in the Regency.

a room all dirt and filth, brats squalling and wrangling... "Oh!" says I, "Mr. Lowe, I beg your pardon for running away, but I have just recollected another engagement; so I poked three guineas in his hand, and told him I would come again another time, and then ran out of the house with all my might."' Mme.

vast stores of wealth, elaborated by Nature's chemistry into the ready materials of food; which proclaim, too, by their own foul smell, God's will that they should be buried out of sight in the fruitful all-regenerating grave of earth: there it runs, turning them all into the seeds of pestilence, filth, and drunkenness.

He is extremely lean, his limbs are atrophied, his body is black with filth and dust, his hair is long and dishevelled, his beard is shaggy, his finger and toe nails have become genuine claws, and his aspect is frightful.

I hoped to see one wrench off a leg to prove what I had been toldthat if one in its movement to the salt water through the tall grass beyond the sand, touched any filth, it clawed off the polluted leg, and that a crab had been seen thus to deprive itself of all its eight limbs, and after a bath to hobble back to its hole with the aid of its claws, to remain until it had grown a complement of supports.

They take the man or the woman as they enter the shelter, and prevent it from becoming a means of dissemination of crime, of filth, of disease.

Even the words of this gutter filth he sought to construe into something nattering to himself.

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.

Except for himself and Witherbee the pier was deserted; behind him the filthy town slept in its filth.

The wigwam of Massasoit is elegantly described by Mr. Arnold as "his seat at Mount Hope," (p. 23,)and pungently, by Dr. Palfrey, as "his sty," in whose comfortless shelter, Winslow and Hopkins, of Plymouth, on their visit to the chief, had "a distressing experience of the poverty and filth of Indian hospitality."

Modern Romeit is in comparison, a den of filth, cheats and beggars!

The floor was thirty centimetres deep in filth.

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

The unholy filth I write fouls the minds and pollutes the imaginations of my readers.

Alpius took it wholly to himself, and he returned no more to the filths of the circensian pastimes in Carthage.

We rescued him and staff with difficulty from the filth, looking like a bedraggled pack of half-drowned rats.

The ground floor of the whole town reeks with filth, and conditions are most unsanitary.