| 单词 | squalidness |
| 例句 | David Lloyd George, the Liberals’ charismatic chancellor of the exchequer, announced a “People’s Budget” in 1909 – one for “raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness”. Why we need the welfare state more than ever 2017-09-21T04:00:00Z The interior presented a revolting scene of squalidness and misery. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z There is nothing of the customary squalidness of beggary about him, but remarkable trimness and cleanliness.—I. Our Old Home, Vol. 2 Annotated with Passages from the Author's Notebook 2011-10-06T02:00:33.843Z Luxury and misery, comfort and squalidness, were constantly elbowing each other. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z French poetry, which at that period could hardly sustain itself with rhyme, denuded of this slight dress must have betrayed the squalidness of bare poverty. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Lloyd George called it a "war budget" – raising money to "wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness". Pre-election budgets: a history of hair shirts and handouts 2010-03-21T00:05:00Z It is, in truth, a wild impressive place, full of beauty and terror, and with none of the squalidness of the mere dungeon about it. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume III It evidently should not be there—its squalidness and filth are all that strike you. The Macdermots of Ballycloran Notwithstanding their squalidness, it is surprising that they are very far from being uncultivated in their morals. The Huguenots in France The station-house is an exception to the prevailing squalidness, being kept with great neatness. Fame and Fortune or, The Progress of Richard Hunter It is for waging implacable war against poverty and squalidness. Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement It is for raising money to wage implacable warfare against poverty and squalidness. Lloyd George The Man and His Story Never had I seen human beings so clad, or rather so unclad, in such amazing squalidness and destitution of garments. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 118, August, 1867 As Marcia sat in her dressing-room before the mirror which was fastened against a brick wall, the squalidness of the cubbyhole ceased to depress her. Destiny Ivy grew around the fragments, and embracing them, veiled their squalidness with its green robe, making that picturesque which anon was hideous. The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars But the environs make amends for the squalidness of the town. A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One In one angle, however, he remarked a window which seemed an exception to the surrounding squalidness. Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists The squalidness of the town he had left so tumultuously struck upon his memory nauseatingly. The Gringos 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. The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little It is impossible to describe the sort of squalidness and filth with which these mansions are distinguished. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are It contained but two rooms, and these exhibited all the squalidness of the most miserable penury. Frankenstein I went out amongst them, and my heart sank within me as I surveyed them; so much squalidness, dirt, and misery I had never before seen amongst a similar number of human beings. Letters of George Borrow to the British and Foreign Bible Society Their condition only proves what squalidness may consist with civilization. Walden Fine gentlemen in broad cloth, ladies in silks and jewels, and beggars in squalidness and rags, are mingled here in true Republican confusion. The Secrets of the Great City He dwells with them for a month, and finds, after a day of pleasant entertainment, that each evening they do penance in squalidness and ashes. Lives of the Necromancers It began to rain, torrents sweeping the planks overhead, while vivid flashes of lightning illumined the open hatch, before it could be hastily closed, revealing the squalidness of the interior in which we were quartered. Wolves of the Sea Being a Tale of the Colonies from the Manuscript of One Geoffry Carlyle, Seaman, Narrating Certain Strange Adventures Which Befell Him Aboard the Pirate Craft "Namur" 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. The Adventures of Captain Bonneville, U. S. A., in the Rocky Mountains and the Far West He was oppressed by the utter squalidness of it all. Martin Eden |
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