High-minded but unfortunate men were carried to jail, and herded with thieves and ruffians in loathsome dungeons, for the crime of owing a hundred dollars which they could not promptly pay.
You are worse than a savage to talk of such a loathsome prison to me.
Wherever I go those eyes burn me yet, although the man himself lies fast in gaol among the thieves and murderers, in the worst and most loathsome of the dungeons.
In the month of July he was taken prisoner, confined in a loathsome dungeon, and, by the arbitrary mandate of Lord Rawdon and Colonel Balfour, without trial, hanged at Charleston.
The bread was loathsome and not fit to be eaten, and was thought to have been condemned.
With life instinct All things that are, to thee are linked By subtle ties; and none so mean Or loathsome hast thou ever seen, But wonderous in make hath been.
If, by that, you mean all that is most infamous and loathsome on the part of Beaulieu, all that is most licentious on the part of the king.
A hundred wild thoughts flocked through Oliver Lane's brain, as he lay there half-suffocated, and felt how hard it was to have escaped from the terrible dangers of the volcanic eruption to find his end in the embrace of a loathsome serpent.
Look here," said Panton, "we want to shoot that loathsome reptile.
The various modes of punishment resorted to by the government, and the unequal distribution of justice, are revolting to humanity, and most disgusting and loathsome in the recital.
I returned home, sincerely thanking God that I was not thus wretched, and that I stood in no need of a temporal physician to cure me of any loathsome disease.
We gladly left this loathsome habitation, upon a ramble about the coral reefs for shells, and shortly embarked for the ship, rejoiced at being removed from a horrid object, which long after haunted my imagination by night and day.
You have told him that my family will submit to my marriage with a loathsome wretch, who got drunk in the presence of ladies, insulted an orphan girl, and attempted murder--and all in one Sunday afternoon.
He refused even to recognize the existence of such a loathsome thing as my family explain to him that I am.
Beauty, in a case like this, is but a mask which time or the loathsome fingers of disease would surely strip off; and then what an object would confront the disenchanted lover!
In this room are many small dirty cots filled with unconscious human beings, willing victims of the pernicious drug--a loathsome spectacle--and here on a small couch sits the proprietor of the establishment.
Clean water is as great a stranger to their stomachs as to their bodies; loathsome rags cover their emaciated forms, and the destroyer drink has left his signet upon their countenances.
These noble bands of Christians enter fearlessly the most loathsome hovels, and, wrestling with filth and disease, in many cases come off victorious.
What a woeful blunder, for example, is his attempt to win Amalia by depicting her absent lover, at great length and with all manner of revolting details, as the victim of the most loathsome of diseases!
Such an insanely jealous, swaggering, domineering, cruel fanatic is too loathsome to be interesting.
One great reason that we have for pursuing our present course is, that at every election we have been made a political target for the filthy demagogues in the country to shoot their loathsome arrows at.
We tell all such to let their filth flow in its own legitimate channel, for we are sick of the loathsome smell.
More loathsome are such characters than the vultures that hover about the fields made red by human gore, to glut themselves upon the festering, swollen bodies of the dead.
We were not disposed to walk any more than was necessary in the public streets, where the foulest odors assailed us at every step, and disgusting sights met the eye in the form of diseased individuals of the most loathsome type.
Numberless idols and symbols of the most vulgar and loathsome character abound all over the town, and along the river's front, before which men and women bow down in silent devotion.
The spells of witches, the abracadabra of quacks, and the loathsome furniture of Sidrophel's laboratory are genuine descendants of the impostures and abominations which were practised for ages both in the Roman and Parthian empires.
With his latest strength and his dying breath he antagonized the loathsome white slave trade.
It is absolute fact that corrupt Jews are now the backbone of the loathsome traffic in New York and Chicago.
We must call most urgently upon all guides and rulers of the people to make incessant war upon the loathsome criminals who prey upon young women and young men.
It is the modern method of men living from the loathsome earnings of disreputable women.
One French trader threatened to break me to pieces and send me to a hospital if it cost him a mint of money, but he afterward became friendly and finally quit his loathsome business.
The victims of the loathsome commerce in girls are first ensnared, then enslaved or at least exploited, inevitably infected with the loathsome disease and all the time compelled to make money for their wicked masters.
After a heroic crusade of twenty-two years, led by Mrs. Josephine Butler, the aroused conscience of Great Britain compelled Parliament in 1886 to repeal the loathsome Contagious Diseases Acts.
To protect these loathsome resorts is like maintaining a thousand pest houses, not for purposes of quarantine, but with the sole result of advertising and spreading the pestilence.
I respect you," said a divekeeper who with others has since abandoned his loathsome business, "because you work in the rain and you work in the cold.
Nothing is more loathsome than the sham glare and tinsel of a house of ill-repute.
So he is precisely like the Catholics with their "charity", cleaning up loathsome and unsightly messes for a thousand years, and never stopping to ask why such messes continue to come into existence.
Still they were in many respects degraded savages, of loathsome habits, but little elevated above the brutes.
The ground was covered with the bodies of men, women, and children, in all the loathsome stages of decay.
She was thinking of the loathsome thing which haunted her room last night.
He would give to a painted harlot a thousand pounds for a loathsome embrace, and to a player or buffoon a hundred for a trumpery pun, but would refuse a penny to the widow or orphan of an old Royalist soldier.
When old, he was loathsome and contemptible to both friend and foe.
No pen can depict that place, nor any tongue describe its loathsome smell.
And that loathsome image of fraud came onward, and landed his head and his body, but drew not his tail upon the bank.
These streaked their faces with blood, which, mingled with tears, was harvested at their feet by loathsome worms.
Pitiful, shameful, andloathsome though the slaughter of seals be, it is not attended by the exposure and the hourly peril which the otter hunter unflinchingly faces.
But people do not go to Alaska to educate and care for diseased and loathsome natives, unless they are paid well for the mission.
Nothing of emotion could be seen on his face, disfigured already by the loathsome disease.
You're the most loathsome beast that it's ever been my misfortune to meet.
He needed no telling that one of the loathsome reptiles of the river had been close at hand, and had seized his enemy; his wonder was that he himself had not been the victim.
His only chance of safety then was in inaction; and fretting with annoyance he crouched there, listening to the shudder-engendering crawling noise made by evidently several loathsomereptiles about the bank of the stream.
