“But you — Amidst this beauty — You are not this ill-conditioned, squalidly bred lad of whom I have been reading?”. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
It would seem that the inevitable accompaniment of such prosperity is the meanness of poorly-built and squalidly-kept suburbs. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter] Reference
We perceived that we were not splendid inhabitants of a splendid world, but a crew of underpaid workmen grown squalidly and dismally drunk. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
So, equally often, I am glad we live where we do, midway, roughly speaking, between the two i.e. not squalidly and not too stricken by her conscience. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt: It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick] Reference
It was surprising how many of the bilious, bare-legged children who collected to gaze at his framed specimens were brought to be photographed, for most of the villagers were squalidly poor and the farmers were entering their busy season. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Cambaceres, where life was so large, where minds could expand, where the splendor of the Imperial Court was so vividly reflected, and to be dropped suddenly into a sphere of squalidly narrow ideas — was it not like a leap from Italy into. From Wordnik.com. [A Second Home] Reference
Dulled, all its soul-shaking beauty dead, blotched and shadowed squalidly, its gleaming plumes tarnished, its dancing spirals stripped from it, that which had been the Shining One wrapped itself about Yolara — wrapped and drew her into itself; writhed, swayed, and hurled itself over the edge of the bridge — down, down into the green fires of the unfathomable abyss — with its priestess still enfolded in its coils!. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
The film features gratuitous nudity, in yet another squalidly lit scene. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Thomas Dermody (1775-1802) was an Irish poet of squalidly dissolute life. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
It had the look, not only of being lived in, but of having lived; of having lived hard, brutally, squalidly, and of being worn out. From Wordnik.com. [The Combined Maze] Reference
14. behaved -- literally, "went on" -- denoting his habit. heavily -- or, "squalidly," his sorrowing occasioning neglect of his person. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
It is a foolish community that can house whole classes, useful and helpful, honest and loyal classes, in such squalidly unsuitable dwellings. From Wordnik.com. [Tono Bungay] Reference
It stood in that half-squalidly residential and half-heartedly commercial district, lying south of Washington Square, a little to the west of. From Wordnik.com. [Phantom Wires A Novel] Reference
Emperor, was allowed to enter a kind of charnel-house, and to see what had been the lovely gaily-painted vellums lying squalidly piled in heaps. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Book-Collectors] Reference
Court was so vividly reflected, and to be dropped suddenly into a sphere of squalidly narrow ideas -- was it not like a leap from Italy into Greenland?. From Wordnik.com. [A Second Home] Reference
"As it is, we are squalidly scrapping over the enforcement of the colonial laws of those empires whose destinies we might possibly have determined a hundred years ago.". From Wordnik.com. [A Son Of The Sun] Reference
Dulled, all its soul-shaking beauty dead, blotched and shadowed squalidly, its gleaming plumes tarnished, its dancing spirals stripped from it, that which had been the Shining One wrapped itself about. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Now, since I, being a nobleman, am in the secret too, think how tedious to me must be your unending cant about all these moralistic figments, and how squalidly disastrous your sacrifice of your lives to them!. From Wordnik.com. [Act III] Reference
Salome; its sculptors, stupefied by Rodin, achieved sections of human anatomy protruding from lumps of clay and marble; its dramatists, drugged by Mallarmé and Maeterlinck, dabbled in dullness, platitude and mediocre psychology; its writers wrote as bloodily, as squalidly, and as immodestly as they dared; its poets blubbered with Verlaine, spat with. From Wordnik.com. [The Common Law] Reference
Dulled, all its soul-shaking beauty dead, blotched and shadowed squalidly, its gleaming plumes tarnished, its dan-cing spirals stripped from it, that which had been the Shin-ing One wrapped itself about Yolara -- wrapped and drew her into itself; writhed, swayed, and hurled itself over the edge of the bridge -- down, down into the green fires of the unfathomable abyss -- with its priestess still enfolded in its coils!. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
“I always did her room, Douglas, you shan’t dare to say I left greasy wool lying squalidly about for days on the carpet. From Wordnik.com. [Died in the Wool]
Why should it seem so squalidly?. From Wordnik.com. [Brave New World]
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