The scarcity was hardly to be regretted, for there were few drains to carry dirty water away, and the gutter was full enough already.
I have seen him stump through a crowd of Armenian widows and their offspring, and after striking some with his whip, he pushed down a woman into the gutter who held a baby at her breast.
The parapet was lower than we thought, and in order to get the advantage of its cover it was necessary to remain absolutely prone in the gutter of the roof.
The oaths of the gutter children and the wailing of the blind beggar-girl seemed to mingle in a shriek that shook his very soul.
But when the candles were first invented, it was found that the wind and draughts of air, blowing into the palace through the doors and windows and through the chinks in the wall, caused them to gutter and burn unequally.
As they drew near the gates of the city, they saw lying in the filth of the gutter an old, decrepit dog, who had been the pet and joy of Ulysses before he left for war.
Standing in conversation with Joanna, I had the gutter urchin's confidence of the pavement, the impudence of the street.
The sidewalk was raked, all the weeds cut away from the fence-line, and the sod between the path and the gutter trimmed and its edges cut evenly.
Into this incision was thrust a whittled plug that had a shallow gutter cut in its upper side, and notches from which the bail of the two-quart cup hung.
So we grip and we slip and we trip and wrestle There in the gutter of No Man's Land; And I feel my nails in his wind-pipe nestle, And he tries to gouge, but I bite his hand.
The light was gone, and I could hear big drops of rain pattering upon the leaden gutter below the open window.
The gutter of the roof ran through the bedrooms and under the floors; at the time of examination it was full of black slimy filth.
The pressed sugar-canes fall over the gutter (f), the expressed juice collecting in g g, and running off through h.
At the end of the gutter a tin spout connects, down which the latex runs into a tin cup on the ground.
White sap then oozes from the tree and runs down a gutter cut in the bark.
I'd rather die in the g-gutter than ask help or charity of any one.
Jest look at me--born in the gutter, but I wasn't content wi' the gutter so I taught myself to read and write.
The water from a broken gutter overhead beat down upon her shoulders.
If you'd walked home every night with your eyes on the gutter in case anybody had dropped a threepenny bit, you'd think it was easier.
Justice had decreed that Meats should be arrested, and like a dead rat in the gutter he was swept up by these scavengers.
He did not find any hole, but he found the cricket ball jammed in the top of a gutter pipe which he afterwards knew ran down inside the wall of the house and ran into the moat below.
The reason of the wretched captives might have given way but for the gutter that you can crawl along from our room to the girls'.
When I see how readily the sensibilities of the passing stranger can be worked in New York, I think of taking up the role of that desperate man on Third Avenue who went along looking for garbage in the gutter to eat.
A small gutter is still called a guzzle in some of the provinces.
The Gutter Pup obtained her fan; the Kid her handkerchief, a wonderful scented transparency.
The Gutter Pup, changing his tactics, as though he had sufficiently reconnoitred, began to attack with rapid, pestiferous blows that annoyed Lovely as a swarm of gnats annoys a dog.
Now he was actually in the ring, feeling the hard earth under his feet, looking into the eyes of the Gutter Pup, who came up cheerfully extending his hand.
Sullivan," said theGutter Pup, proudly producing it.
The Gutter Pup, who roomed on the first floor of the Woodhull, took a solemn oath that having been waked up by a strange scratching noise at his window, he had seen four masked figures with bull's-eye lanterns scurrying away.
The Gutter Pup was really a good sort and had adopted him in quite a decent way without taking an undue advantage.
At others he figured out a whole plan of campaign that must wear down the Gutter Pup and send him to a crashing defeat.
The adherents of the Gutter Pup were patting him on the back, exulting over his work.
When he struck, the Gutter Pup slipped away or ducked and returned smiling and professional to attack.
October's better, more snap in the air," said the Gutter Pup.
He sat stolidly, paying no heed to his seconds' prayers to go slow, to rest up this next round, to make the Gutter Pup work.
The trouble was that the Gutter Pup was absolutely unaware of the disturbance in Lovely's mind, or that his reminiscences provoked such thoughts of combat.
The Gutter Pup in veteran disdain was about to remark that Lovely was a cheerful liar when the tolling of the gym bell broke in on a dangerous situation.
He made a tentative jab and sprang lightly back from the Gutter Pup's reply.
And the Rectangle from its windows, its saloon steps, its filthy sidewalk, gutter and roadway, paused, and with undisguised wonder stared at the two girls.
The event of Loreen's stumbling through the gutter dead-drunk always made the Rectangle laugh and jest.
He cleared the space in front of the Settlement and even went out into the gutter and swept that.
The third was distressingly branded with the slum and gutter signs of the Ahasuerus race.
Skittish filly was among his phrases; but she had a bearing and a gaze that forbade the dip in the common gutter for wherewithal to paint the creature she was.
The streets are laid out at right angles; they are very straight, and are paved, and down the middle runs a gutter for water lined with stone.
The chief defect which the streets have is that of being narrow, so that only one horse and rider can go on one side of the gutter and another upon the opposite side.
The fact was that when his child was once in the gutter he ran great risk of not having a feather bed to sleep on himself.
