Within is a little courtyard, and fragments of the building running round in the same Tudor style, but given up to squalor and decay, evidently let out to poor lodgers.
It was also in this district of toil and squalor where the most desperate fighting was done by the Jews.
It is to their drudgery and squalor that we owe our material and mental well-being.
Lindau could probably find as cheap a lodging in some decenter part of the town; and, in fact, there was some amelioration of the prevailing squalor in the quieter street which he turned into from Mott.
In every den of wretchedness; in every hovel where squalor and disease disputed all other dominions, she was a beam of sunshine, giving warmth and cheer and joy.
He felt a physical shrinking from the moral squalor into which he was being dragged.
Annette went up to the mountains with her father the next day, stopping the carriage under the pepper-trees in front of the Withrow cabin, and stepping out a little bewildered by the meanness and poverty and squalor of it all.
Finally the accused may be burnt without confession if the evidence is strong enough, or he may be kept in prison for months or years, when the squalor carceris may induce him to confess his crimes.
It revealed nothing but the common squalor of a low saloon--white faces, sleepy eyes, and frowsy heads.
The weather had become foul again, and I was sick of the smells and the squalor and the flea-bitten crowds.
He is visiting all the Gipsy grounds he can find and reach, for the purpose of gaining information as to the condition of the swarms of children who live in squalor and ignorance under tents.
The translucent freshness of the calm scene was miraculous; it divinely intoxicated the soul, and left no squalor and no ugliness anywhere.
The squalor of the public box increased the effect of her young and proud stylishness and of her perfume.
The mighty halls which ought to have resounded to the laughter of the mistresses of Charles II were diverted to the inevitable squalor of almsgiving.
He looked down into the areas and saw therein the furtive existence of squalor behind barred windows.
The squalor and malodorousness of the town struck me, from the moment I stood upon the street, as facts I had never before observed.
I know that the poor and ignorant envied the rich and cultured then; but to us the latter, living as they did, surrounded by squalor and brutishness, seem little better off than the former.
It was the increased intelligence of the masses which made the difference, as the dawn reveals the squalor of surroundings which in the darkness may have seemed tolerable.
Carried along with the stronger part of the current, I found myself, as it began to grow dark, in the midst of a scene of squalor and human degradation such as only the South Cove tenement district could present.
His domestic fabric was disfigured by none of the isolation and squalor which so often attend the confirmed celibate.
There is no poverty, no want, no taxes--not any sign of dilapidation or squalor anywhere in the principality of Monaco.
She matched the squalor of the scene also; a squalor which seemed to put the pleasure that has its marketable value out of possibility in such surroundings.
They may preserve in all their vivid squalor the hateful memories of the past; they cannot be said to exert much influence upon the politics of the present.
But hunger and squalor and cold were also free; and the people demanded something more than liberty.
Never was such a restful land to the eye, especially to the American eye, sated as it is very apt to be with the mingled squalor and splendor of its own landscape, its violent contrasts, and general spirit of unrest.
There is squalor and misery enough, of course, and too much, but this takes itself away to holes and corners.
Yet, beautiful though Constantinople is, it combines the moral squalorof Southern Europe with the physical squalor of the Orient to a greater degree than any city in the Levant.
And now here we are, planning a great system of municipal baths as the people's right, not as a favor to any one, and the old lie that the poor prefer to steep in their squalor is no longer believed by any person with sense.
It has long roots that feed on the selfishness and dulness of Fifth Avenue quite as greedily as on the squalor of the Sixth Ward.
No one could have expected that this fine flight of steps would lead tosqualor and the haunts of indigence.
It is perhaps a folly to moralise on such things; yet the recollection of those mournful portraits gazing down upon me in the squalor of our ancient habitation prompts me to tell an idle truth.
Here we find the finest public buildings and most elegant residences strangely mingled with wooden hovels; magnificence and squalor side by side, inexorably jumbled together.
Such squalor and visible poverty can be found nowhere else in any country outside of Ireland, and yet we are passing through a famous agricultural district which ought to support thrifty farmhouses and smiling villages.
Toil to fetch a tinker through the squalor of San Niccolò, and there shall fall on you the shadow of the bell-tower where the old sacristan saved to the world the genius of the Night and Day.
The spider sat aloft, sucking the juices from the fettered flies, teaching its spawn to prey and feed; content in squalor and in plenitude; in sensual sloth, and in the increase of its body and its hoard.
After passing through a long, straggling suburb, not remarkable for anything but its squalor and poverty, we reached the seashore, and continued to skirt the bay for miles.
That sort of gentry lives in squalor and dies in gold.
Those who dwelt amidst these lovely natural surroundings groveled in squalorand lived upon potatoes, milk, butter, and cheese.
But when it rains there is superadded a squalor and an ill humour to all the party which makes it almost impossible for them not to quarrel before the day is over.
