Insanitary Smithfield and squalid Covent Garden elicit dishonourable mention from the early 'forties onward.
For a time the spotted horse dominated the squalid enclosure, grotesque and riderless.
The café at which we were invited to sup with Sandow must have occupied the site, or have been very close to it, once devoted to the squalid orgies of “The Judge and Jury.
And any nascent desire I may once have cherished to visit the scenes of my ancient labours has been effectually quenched by the perusal of these squalid records.
The “Baron’s” charge to the jury was a tissue of ribaldry and bawdry which to me seemed simply awful, but which appealed to the habitués of the squalid hall.
It has a theatre, some elegant restaurants, and exhibits few signs of itssqualid past.
I pointed out to Miss Wendermott that you were in the prime of life and in magnificent condition, while her father was already on the threshold of the grave and drinking himself into a fever in a squalid hut in a village of swamps.
The half-scornful, half-earnest prophecy, to which he had listened years ago in a squalid African hut, flashed into his mind.
And then, brushed in with great colorful strokes, the causes and authors of the filthy stairway, the squalid joker, the ruined man, the endless misery.
Herrick, in surrendering them, had dreaded the squalid clutch which they laid upon herself.
It was a crime, but it was not a squalid and foolish crime like the murder of Louis XVI.
Going in I found it the most squalid and evil-smelling village pub I had ever entered.
The alcaldes, with the alguazils, and some of the inhabitants repaired immediately to the church with their arms; and Cortes was so squalid from long illness, that no one knew him till he began to speak.
This sketch will suffice to give an idea, urbi et orbi, of clandestine passion in the squalid style stamped on it in Paris in 1840.
A man ought to find every woman in his wife, as the squalid poets of the seventeenth century made their Manons figure as Iris and Chloe.
Madame's room was an exception to the squalid slovenliness that disgraced the living rooms, where the curtains were yellow with smoke and dust, and where the child, evidently left to himself, littered every spot with his toys.
He prefers the squalid sluts he picks up at the street corners, and leaves me free.
Adeline, left alone, and looking round thesqualid shop, melted into tears.
The hereditary French holiday spirit of the French voyageurs is hardly to be depressed by any adversities; and they can manage to get up a fete in the most squalid situations, and under the most untoward circumstances.
Behind the loggia were the priest's four rooms, bare even for the bareness of that squalid place.
She had just finished when a knock at the door of her squalid sitting-room on the second story, with the pea-green walls and shabby furniture, aroused her from what was the nearest approach to a nap in which she ever indulged.
I fell asleep at last, and, on opening my eyes the next morning, saw the sunlight shining into the squalid room.
He led his friends through street after street--gloomy and squalid places, but happily deserted by the residents.
It is claimed that these diseases come from a squalid filthiness, but the lie is given to this theory by the fact that there is no apparent filthiness.
This Papal city of refuge is, to-day, a more or less squalid place, with here and there a note of something more splendid.
Instead of the moving accident by flood or field, they have the squalid or merely agonizing accident.
In contrast to the brilliant surroundings of the Strathmore Hotel the humble homestead over which Phyllis Raysun reigned was a crude, even squalid affair.
The affairs of life in such desperate regions must be left in men's hands, her woman's sphere extended only to the inside of their squalid home.
And Fate had amused itself by throwing bricks and bats at it, choking it under mountains of ugliness, kicking it through crowded streets, dragging it up squalid stairs.
The picture I have had so far to draw is a painful one and a squalid one.
Let us hasten through the sordid streets, looking up at the blue skies and ignoring the squalid houses, and make our way to a more romantic spot.
It was a squalid place, a miserable hole, in which a single flickering, yellow gas jet gave light.
Jimmie Dale's lips twisted queerly as he looked around him at thesqualid appointments of the Sanctuary.
A moment more, and he had negotiated the rickety stairs with practiced, soundless tread, was inside the squalid quarters of Larry the Bat, and the door of the Sanctuary was locked and bolted behind him.
To his right, on the opposite side of the hall, was the door of old Luddy's squalid two-room apartment.
The walls are now sadly shattered, excepting the great round bastion which is planted at one of the angles; and within the ruined enclosure is hutted a squalid community of miserable half-naked Kurds.
The houses in the town for the most part are a set ofsqualid hovels, intersected in all directions by a maze of narrow crooked streets.
Picturesque they are indeed, but in such a squalid fashion that much of their charm is blighted.
Here and there the solitude was punctuated by a squalid Kurdish village whose inhabitants were thriftily using the tents which had served for their camps all the summer, to hood in their stacks of fodder against the expected winter snows.
You to haunt with squalid negroes, blubber lips, and monkey faces.
I undertook to instruct a national, not a ragged school;' and then Miss Boulder shook out her fine watered silk and said, 'It positively is improper to place ladies in contact with such squalid objects.
The soul of the nation was uplifted above the squalid rivalries of the "'ites" and the "'isms.
So was the earth flooded with light and glory, that the tide poured into the cell, giving the richness of an old Venetian painting to its bare and squalid furniture.
