1 His sensitive nature was still smarting under the lashes of an undivined and squalid way of life.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 2 After early nightfall the yellow lamps would light up, here and there, the squalid quarter of the brothels.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 3 The squalid scene composed itself around him; the common accents, the burning gas-jets in the shops, odours of fish and spirits and wet sawdust, moving men and women.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 4 His sins trickled from his lips, one by one, trickled in shameful drops from his soul, festering and oozing like a sore, a squalid stream of vice.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 3 5 We bought some biscuits and chocolate which we ate sedulously as we wandered through the squalid streets where the families of the fishermen live.
6 He saw the squalid tract of her vice, miserable and malodorous.
7 He gazed blankly about the kitchen, which looked cold and squalid in the rainy winter twilight.
8 Packed into squalid cabins, smallpox, typhoid and tuberculosis broke out among them.
9 No; she was not made for mean and shabby surroundings, for the squalid compromises of poverty.
10 The squalid and withered person of this hag might well have obtained for her the character of possessing more than human cunning.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 11 The car ploughed uphill through the long squalid straggle of Tevershall, the blackened brick dwellings, the black slate roofs glistening their sharp edges, the mud black with coal-dust, the pavements wet and black.
12 Oliver, whose days had been spent among squalid crowds, and in the midst of noise and brawling, seemed to enter on a new existence there.
13 As we approached the forbidding and squalid inn, with the sign of a game-cock above the door, Holmes gave a sudden groan, and clutched me by the shoulder to save himself from falling.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 14 It opened on to a squalid courtyard.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. THE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOL 15 I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty, of rank, descent, and noble blood.