His high wages arise altogether from the hardship, disagreeableness, and dirtinessof his work.
When the inconstancy of employment is combined with the hardship, disagreeableness, and dirtiness of the work, it sometimes raises the wages of the most common labour above those of the most skilful artificers.
But where for some reason or other dirtiness becomes habitual, it at the same time ceases to be disgusting; and it is often astonishing how soon {352} people get used to filthy surroundings.
For the excessive dirtiness of the present Mongols, see Prejevalsky, Mongolia, i.
In domestic economy the best way to clean a house is to keep it clean by a daily attention to small things, and not allow it to get into such a state of dirtiness and disorder as to require great and periodical cleanings.
The influence of obstruction, due to the dirtiness of the filter, depends on circumstances too variable to be taken into account.
The clean prosperity of Bale and Switzerland, the big clean stations, filled me with patriotic misgivings, as I thought of the vast dirtiness of London, the mean dirtiness of Cambridgeshire.
Anna could see its crumpled dirtiness peeping from a drawer in the sideboard into which it had been hurriedly thrust.
She looked in astonishment at the poor houses, with their broken roofs, and their windows stuffed with rags and brown paper, at the mean little shops and at the dirtiness and poverty-stricken look of the people.
Framed in the aperture stood a servant girl, small in stature, and of a dirtiness unbelievable.
I was much struck too with the dirtiness of the people of Palmyra, which dirtiness results in pestilence, ophthalmia, and plagues of flies.
The house reeking of filth, the hot dirtiness of it all, the shameful poverty--how can you bring yourself to come back to it night after night?
Sometimes I thought of the paintings without, and how that suited not with the dirtiness that was within; and, if I was deceived, what course I should take.
He kept them all alive by his coarse, easy, impudent wit; in which there was more vulgarity and dirtiness than ill-nature.
Once more, Kingsley's art is seen in the selection of incidents and the arrangement of influences which bring to Tom the conviction of hisdirtiness and create in him the overpowering desire to be clean.
All these different objects fully make up for whatever amount of dirtiness may occasionally be met with.
I had already been told in AEgina of the great dirtiness and number of vermin prevalent in the Piraean inns, and had been warned against passing a night there; but what was to be done?
