When we arrived off Portsmouth, our ship was filthy, and I believe contagious; we miserable prisoners, were encrusted with the nastiness common to such a place, as that into which we had been inhumanly crowded.
It may, in part, be owing to the nastiness and negligence of the prisoners themselves, but the great fault and the disgrace, remain with the British.
These pyramids of nastiness are ever to be found within the city.
Then there is a grotesque nastiness of invention in the medicinal messes the poor beasts are made to swallow, and a perverse ingenuity in running counter to the plain course of nature.
The Indian farrier has some sound notions and is acquainted with a few valuable remedies for disease, but he has a passion for long prescriptions, esteemed according to the number and nastiness of their ingredients.
The nastiness and stench of their houses are, however, at least equal to the confusion.
It is the downright dirty immorality, the brutish nastiness of it all; and the line which the immorality and nastiness draws between Jew and Gentile.
For dirt, bustle, and nastiness of all kinds, this place exceeded anything they had ever seen before.
Naughtiness is sometimes (though by no means so necessarily as appears to some authors and critics) amusing: nastiness never is.
But if there is some nastiness there is very little naughtiness in them.
A serious book by David Graham Phillips, published serially in a popular monthly, is raided the moment it appears between covers; a trashy piece of nastiness by Elinor Glyn goes unmolested.
I have also seen boxing and wrestling nastiness and brutality.
Well, of course, there was pain, aversion, nastiness .
The mere nastiness of encouraging a tuft of unseemly hair under his chin could hardly have led the girl to this conclusion.
Nastiness after nastiness was proffered in vain; the perplexed Cockneys struggled hard to maintain a decent composure, but with difficulty kept their ground before the unsavoury abominations.
She trod on some nastinessin the yard, and going into the cook-house found the slave girls round a very small and inefficient fire, trying to cook the evening meal.
Somebody takes all the credit of what’s good for Himself, and nothing but nastiness is left for me.
Their method of feeding corresponds with the nastiness of their persons, which often smell disagreeably from the quantity of grease about them, and their clothes never being washed.
Off with that lump of Gentile nastiness while holy words are being said!
To think of him, who had not hesitated to call the president of a Russian court "rogue" to his face, simpering like a miserable time-server at every stupidity and nastiness of a drunken brute!
Non-descripts in nastiness I believe they are, like maggots with horns and tails; such a race as I never saw or heard of, and as would have disgusted Mr. Leeuenhoeck himself.
Another thing he wondered at in the Yahoos, was their strange disposition to nastiness and dirt; whereas there appears to be a natural love of cleanliness in all other animals.
Although he is not deliberately pornographic, he is exceedingly coarse, with a great deal of the nastiness which is not even naughty, but nastiness pure and simple.
Notwithstanding the seeming nastiness of their Dish of Goats Maw, they are in their Persons a very neat cleanly People, both Men and Women: And they are withal the quietest and civilest People that I did ever meet with.
In the stagnant water which ripples almost imperceptibly on the shore there floated all forms of nastiness and corruption, which the prowling dogs, standing leg-deep as they wade about in search of offal, cannot destroy.
The frail houses dissolved into heaps of rubbish under their vigorous blows, and the more friable remains were carted off and shot into and over the ineffable horrors and nastiness of the Turkish plague and charnel-houses.
Paris is the ugliest, beastliest town in the universe,' and describes the nastiness of the talk of French women of the first rank.
Mr. Elliot brings us woeful accounts of the French ladies, of the decency of their conversation, and the nastiness of their behaviour.
They are not to throw Nastiness of any Kind out at the Windows, but to carry it to the common Necessaries, and to empty the Chamber Pots and Close-stools as soon as used, and be careful to wash them before they bring them back.
With excessive nastiness of very brackish and very fetid water was combined extreme scarcity of fuel.
And now I shall have that horrid man from the little town pawing me and covering everything with snuff, and bidding me take Scotch physic,--which seems to increase in quantity and nastiness as doses in England decrease.
There was, however, so much nastiness of the kind going, that his little effort made no great difference.
You have spoken libelously of the actions of the State, and compared the glory of our time to the nastiness of the Roman emperors.
I must confess, when I contemplate the vicious crimes which the torrent of the Revolution rolls along with all its virtue, I am afraid that I shall catch up some of the nastiness and be identified with it in the eyes of posterity.
We have seen that certain insects are possessed of warning colours, which advertise their nastinessto the taste.
It is, therefore, improbable that nastiness or even the power of stinging can have been an eliminating agency.
I suppose he won't insist on leaving any of his nastiness about.
