This means, potent enough to form the speech of any child whether from the slums or from the homes of those who know no English, is rarely utilized up to the full measure of its efficiency.
In her parish visiting among the worstslums of Ancoats, she had found such a dress useful.
Shone into the foul core of New York's slums that was at last to go to the realm of bad memories because civilized man might not look upon it and live without blushing.
Many of the slums of the greatest city in the world belong to me.
And although slums are not pretty to look at or live in, they are good ones to pay.
I should hate to live in London," said Antonia suddenly; "the slums must be so awful.
His square ran into one of those slums that still rub shoulders with the most distinguished situations, and in it he came upon a little crowd assembled round a dogfight.
He would want something to eat presently, and if he were to venture too far into the slums that lay hidden behind St. George's Church and the Elephant, he might have difficulty in finding a place where he could take a meal in comfort.
Gilbert and Henry had explored the Combe and the dreadful swamp ofslums reaching up from Ringsend and spilling almost into the gardens of Merrion Square.
Encircled with walls and dominated by its castle, it was no doubt picturesque enough, but it is singularly dingy and unattractive now, with slumsalmost as bad as Dublin's and evidences of biting poverty everywhere.
The slums she visited in Clerkenwell and other places often reminded her of those last few days of her married life, those days before she parted for ever from "Le Costaud.
Thus she passed the long summer days in the stifling slums of London.
If the state undertakes to transform the slums into habitable tenements, the present families of the slums must be accommodated somewhere while the transformation takes place.
In the great cities of our country the Democratic party is allied with the criminal element of the slums as the Republican party is allied with the predatory criminals of the palace in maintaining the interests of the possessing class.
The one tends to divide cities into two districts, one composed of the palaces of the rich, the other of the slums of the poor, and seeks to convert every problem of municipal government into means of increasing private wealth.
In the last few decades slums as frightful as any in Europe have appeared with terrible rapidity, and there has been a development of the viler side of industrialism, of sweating and base employment of the most ominous kind.
This, in the presence of the necessary knowledge, is as practically inevitable a consequence of individualist competition and the old American tradition as the appearance of slums and a class of millionaires.
Ain't it funny, though, those things happen in the slums and they happen in the smart set, but they don't happen near so often to just middling folks like you and me!
She was a woman picked out of theslums by a charity organization.
Ten years of slumswould have made them into what their mother was--an unfit; but ten years of Canada was making them into robust humans capable of battling with life and mastering it.
It is obvious and easy to say that the people who make city slums possible do not want to own houses and would not live upon land and improve it, if they could.
From these creatures and creators of slums it is absurd to talk of gratitude for the offer of betterment.
Terry's experience in the slums was no other than many another's, but the effect it made upon his great sensibility was far from ordinary.
But, unfortunately, even in the slums one needs to eat.
I too will arise out of my sacrificial self and look back on my former bondage in amaze, even as I now look down on the dizzy slums where I am and yet am not!
Rates in some districts had doubled in twenty or thirty years; slums could not be cleared because the cost was prohibitive (though this was not altogether a question of rates), and education demanded assistance.
Dublin slums and of the conduct of the Corporation, some of whose members owned tenement property.
Wilbur Chapman tells how he one night explored the slums of New York with Sam Hadley.
And the great mission worker turned his pain-pinched face back toward the slums out of which they had come and said, "Oh, the sin!
He preached this belief in the slums of Marseilles.
I believe that it was a poor harlot in the slums of London who first opened for him the door of fanaticism.
For every black babe torn from its mother's breast by the iniquitous system of negro slavery, the slums of our great cities have a white child, whose future is equally dark and hopeless.
I grasped at the chance like a drowning man at a straw, and that very night found myself facing nearly 1,000 hard looking specimens from the slums of all nations.
All around this plantation are millions of uncultivated acres where the wretches of our city slums could be equally happy if our Carnegies and Rockefellers would only loan the funds to colonize them there.
I don't mind slums in the way of business, but I prefer not to go to lunch in them.
His boxing, and his experience in the slums and ghettos of the world, had taught him restraint.
Then his spirit of unrest came over him again, and as he wore his way southward he felt that he should like to see Chatham Square once more; a caprice to smell the air of the slums came over him.
Up the avenue in that thronged district of the slums of the upper city which lies on the beginnings of Harlem, O’Leary perceived the tower of a church.
Mother Guttersnipe I unearthed in the slums off Little Bourke Street; and I gave what I am afraid was perhaps too vivid a picture of her language and personality.
Now do you understand what I want--you must take me to the crib in the back slums where the articles stolen from the house in Toorak were hidden.
A disreputable woman, one far more likely to come from the back slums than from Toorak.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "slums" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
