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Dirtiness See also Filth. Daw, Margery sold her bed and slept on dirt. [Nurs. Rhyme: Opie, 297] disheveled and sloppy sportswriter for New York Herald. [Am. Drama: The Odd Couple; TV: “The Odd Couple” in Terrace, II, 160] “a walking dust storm.” [Comics: “Peanuts” in Horn, 542–543] filthy bird; lines nest with dung. [Medieval Animal Symbolism: White, 150] |
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Once more she lost the sense of space; once more trees, houses, people, animals, hills, merged and heaved into one dirtiness, and she was at Wickham Place. His work was hung up in any out-of-the-way corner of the gallery that could be found; it had been bought under protest; it was admitted by sufferance; its freshness and brightness damaged it terribly by contrast with the dirtiness and the dinginess of its elderly predecessors; and its only points selected for praise were those in which it most nearly resembled the peculiar mannerism of some Old Master, not those in which it resembled the characteristics of the old mistress--Nature. In spite of the dirtiness of the hut, which was all muddied by their boots and the filthy dogs licking themselves clean, and the smell of marsh mud and powder that filled the room, and the absence of knives and forks, the party drank their tea and ate their supper with a relish only known to sportsmen. |
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