For the houses had that sordid, ramshackle, slummy look almost invariable on an Italian high-road.
In the immediate foreground, to be sure, would be the yard of the livery-stables and the ratherslummy dwellings of the colliers, sloping downhill.
From Syracuse to Airolo it is the same: horrible, dreary, slummy high-roads the moment you approach a village or any human habitation.
The houses flush on the road, under the great lime-stone face of the hill, open their slummy doors, and throw out dirty water and coffee dregs.
Don't you believe she has been led away into any slummy place, for the sake of politics or anything else.
Juke was demobilised early too, commenced clergyman again, got a job as curate in a central London parish, and lived in rooms in a slummy street.
Jukie is curate in a slummy parish near Covent Garden.
Once, I remember coming home sick at heart, from a visitation of one such slummy "lane.
Little or nothing was done to improve the slummy and dirty parts of the town, or to remove some of those foul courts and alleys which were not only disgraceful in appearance but were a menace to the health of the inhabitants.
