It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness. From Wordnik.com. [Lloyd George The Man and His Story] Reference
Never had I seen human beings so clad, or rather so unclad, in such amazing squalidness and destitution of garments. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
Great piles of bedding and bundles lay on every side, with black heads emerging and black forms reclining in every stage of squalidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867] Reference
This gets the spotlight off the confirmed squalidness of the case. 911 calls report racist epithets being screamed by men in the party house. From Wordnik.com. [Privilege Meets Protest at Duke University] Reference
Vane was so overwhelmed by the prospect of a possible tragedy that he scarcely noticed the dirt, the squalidness, the hot and foetid air and the evil-looking fellows who stared at them when he and Jarvis entered. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Certainly there are fleas and there are filthinesses in some directions; and yet it is amazing, especially for one accustomed to the Irish, to see an extreme of poverty so much greater, with such an utter absence of squalidness. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
How the night closed, I know not; but I found myself at last in a narrow room, surrounded with squalidness, its only light from a high-barred window, and its only furniture the wooden tressel on which I lay, fierce, weary, and feverish, as if I lay on the rack. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828] Reference
He was oppressed by the utter squalidness of it all. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 5] Reference
But the environs make amends for the squalidness of the town. From Wordnik.com. [A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One] Reference
Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization. From Wordnik.com. [Walden] Reference
The station-house is an exception to the prevailing squalidness, being kept with great neatness. From Wordnik.com. [Fame and Fortune or, The Progress of Richard Hunter] Reference
It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury. From Wordnik.com. [Frankenstein] Reference
In one angle, however, he remarked a window which seemed an exception to the surrounding squalidness. From Wordnik.com. [Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists] Reference
It is impossible to describe the sort of squalidness and filth with which these mansions are distinguished. From Wordnik.com. [Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are] Reference
There is nothing of the customary squalidness of beggary about him, but remarkable trimness and cleanliness. From Wordnik.com. [Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.] Reference
Notwithstanding the absence of all comfort and convenience in their habitations, and the general squalidness of their appearance, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West] Reference
It might be palace without, but it was wigwam within; so that, between the stateliness of his mansion and the squalidness of his furniture, the gallant. From Wordnik.com. [The adventures of Captain Bonneville] Reference
Still, one cannot believe that the Almighty has recently slaughtered so many Haitians because of the unbelievable squalidness of their competing priesthoods. From Wordnik.com. [Muti] Reference
Not unfrequently these wandering tests of our benevolence made their appearance in interesting groups of man, woman, and child, picturesque in their squalidness, and manifesting. From Wordnik.com. [Yankee Gypsies] Reference
Notwithstanding the absence of all comfort and convenience in their habitations, and the general squalidness of their appearance, the Shoshokoes do not appear to be destitute of ingenuity. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Captain Bonneville]
The reality is in the hard hearts and selfish tempers and undocile minds which, in the splendor or the squalidness of wealth, show the sad ruin of self-sufficient success, the pride of life. From Wordnik.com. [The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little] Reference
She then proceeds to give birth to a fully grown man, in a very icky and incredibly prolonged horrible scene, made all the more horrible and intensely mysogynistic by the squalidness of the film. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The city is made up of foreign concessions, as in other treaty ports, but away in the native quarter there is the real China, with her selfish rush, her squalidness and filth among the teeming thousands. From Wordnik.com. [Across China on Foot] Reference
Such heaps of beggars in the streets of Rome and Naples; so much squalidness and misery; no cleanliness; an utter want of comfort; and such superstition; and such an absence of all true and evangelical seriousness. From Wordnik.com. [Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert] Reference
That land with all its encumbrances and liabilities, its barrenness and squalidness, its poverty and its degradation is inexorably, inevitably, inalienably his; and like a shattered and debased personality it haunts him wherever he goes. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice From the South] Reference
Meet her with her pink sunbonnet hanging down the back of her neck and her big eyes taking in the squalidness of Marthy's crude kitchen in the Cove, and her terrible directness of speech hitting squarely the things she saw that were different from her own immaculate home. From Wordnik.com. [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference
As to our rude hut and the squalidness of our furniture, you might have noticed that there are few persons in the colony better lodged or more comfortably furnished than we are: and then you are an admirable chemist, 'added I, embracing her;' you transform everything into gold. '. From Wordnik.com. [Manon Lescaut] Reference
There had been just sufficient new blood infused into it to counteract the jealous humours and to minimise the weariness of spirit of those older members who had served in the halcyon days of Parnell and had gone through all the squalidness and impotence of the years of the Split. From Wordnik.com. [Ireland Since Parnell] Reference
On two low trestles, in the middle of the floor, lay a coffin with the lid on, on the top of which was stretched the dead body of an old emaciated woman in her graveclothes, the quality of which was much finer than one could have expected to have seen in the midst of the surrounding squalidness. From Wordnik.com. [Great Sea Stories] Reference
"It is for waging implacable war against poverty and squalidness. From Wordnik.com. [Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement] Reference
The rotting trail to squalidness of youth. From Wordnik.com. [digg.com: Stories / Popular] Reference
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