She was covered with coal dust and dirt and rubbish in every direction, for we had hitherto had no time to attend to appearances.
A broken fence opened a passage which seemed to lead through the heaps of rubbish from some buildings recently pulled down.
It was said that he was going to travel about in the direction of Lyons; it would be a precious good riddance of bad rubbish if he fell into some hole and broke his neck.
He would sleep on a rubbish heap, or on a seat, or in a piece of waste land, or across a gutter.
Found beneath antique rubbish heap, My great and tapestried oak chair I will from you no longer keep.
It is humiliating, in the midst of all the schools and teaching of the present day, to find such rubbish continually poured forth, and eagerly read.
They have given o’er wearing such queer looking lumps Of nasty old rubbish screw’d up in great bumps, To cast them adrift they have made up their minds, To be ugly for ever they don’t feel inclined.
If I accept an offer like this," Granet protested, "I shall be pleading guilty to all the rubbish you have talked.
The most interesting of these Chaldæan monuments discovered in the rubbish of the Elamite capital is undoubtedly the triumphal stela of the king Naram-Sin (fig.
At the present day, as the ground outside has been raised by rubbish of all kinds, Herod’s doorways are filled up either entirely or partly.
Bags of moss or ant-hills may be brought home and looked over at leisure for minute beetles--throwing rubbish into water, or sifting it over white paper, being the handiest way to reveal them.
WHEN this happened, the Flopsy Bunnies went across the field to a rubbish heap, in the ditch outside Mr. McGregor's garden.
The blue- bottles buzzed about the wall, and a little old mouse picked over the rubbish among the jam pots.
Heirlooms and family pictures are only so muchrubbish to me.
Its walls torn asunder; cannon put in its crenelated sides, dilapidated and destroyed; the garden filled with rubbish of all description.
Some stranded on shallows in the middle of the river, others grounded at projections of the bank, and other rubbish was piled up against them till the whole mass broke away and danced down the river towards the sea.
Of Nineveh and Babylon only rubbishheaps are left, but China still shows no sign of decay.
Straight in front the marble Taj Mahal rises from a terrace, dazzling white in the sunshine--a summer dream of white clouds turned to stone, a work of art which only love could conjure out of the rubbish of earth.
Some time ago, while turning over a quantity of rubbish in a little-used room, I disturbed a large black spider.
The Kirk swept out all that rubbish long ago, and the less it is like Rome the nearer the pure faith.
It has not thrown away the God-given treasure, but it has piled over it such an ever accumulating heap of rubbish that it is not easily found.
And some kids were much surprised to find their rubbish had no value at all in the eyes of the larger world, so to speak.
In fact, Preston said it was pathetic, and Pegram said we had a good foundation for a rubbish heap, but nothing more.
His heavy breath and bloodshot eyes testified what he had found under the rubbish heaps of Fort Gibraltar's cellar.
We hallooed for servants and by lantern light examined every square inch of the smoked snow and rubbish heaps.
Londoners used to fling out the rubbish and dirt of their city.
Very dirty we should have thought those streets, for people often threw out into them their rubbish and refuse.
Imagine a gigantic ash heap, a place where dust and rubbish have been cast for years outside some dry, derelict, God-forsaken up-country township.
In the dim light, as the party which was to take the farm rushed into it, a machine-gun was barking at them from somewhere inside that rubbish yard itself.
They knew it must be firing from behind one of the heaps of rubbish where the entrances of the dug-outs probably were, firing obliquely and to its rear at the men who rushed past it.
He tried to haul himself clear, but the tumbled rubbish kept him down; and, as often as he was seen to move, bullets whizzed past him from a green slope near by.
The fallen earth blocked the passage, and the journey became a switchback over tumbled rubbish and into the trench again.
Only a little bit--for there's a lot of rubbish in it that I would be ashamed of anybody who thinks well of him to read--but just a little bit.
Rubbish for us--but the last possessions for them.
And how much of the strangest, most unnecessary rubbish do they pull along with them into the trucks, and heap up in the places which might otherwise be occupied by extra people!
The wild flowers, of course, he found in the woods and hedgerows around him; but the cultivated kinds he got in a very ingenious fashion, by visiting all the rubbish heaps of the neighbourhood, on which garden refuse was usually piled.
