Some of the water-right difficulties are more squalid than this, some more tragic; but unless you have known them you cannot very well know what the water thinks as it slips past the gardens and in the long slow sweeps of the canal.

A somewhat nauseous gift, the girl raised her arms and received it gently, without haste,the saffron body appearing yet more squalid against the Palladian whiteness of her tunic, plain and cool as drapery in marble.

The place looked dirty and squalid in the extremejust the sort of place I should have expected Theodore to haunt.

It evidently appeared, that though wealth and hereditary elevation operate as an apology for many delinquencies, there are some which so irresistibly address themselves to the indignation of mankind, that, like death, they level all distinctions, and reduce their perpetrator to an equality with the most indigent and squalid of his species.