"Dirt" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the square inch, and nothing but hitting them will make them budge. They are disgusting creatures. Of course the filthy habits of the natives encourage them. The streets are littered with every kind of food-scraps and dirt: and the Arab has only two W.C.'s—the street and the river. Our chief tyranny in his eyes is that we have posted sanitary police about who fine him 2s. if he uses either: but like all reforms ...
— Letters from Mesopotamia • Robert Palmer
... in reply, that such does not become caste, and two pompous-looking servants set upon him brushing the dirt from his clothes with great earnestness. The negroes understand Mr. Scranton at a glance; ...
— Our World, or, The Slaveholders Daughter • F. Colburn Adams
... there is an idea of the good, but not of such things as hair and mud and dirt, Parmenides advises him "not to despise even the meanest things," and this advice shows the genuine scientific temper. It is with this impartial temper that the mystic's apparent insight into a higher reality and a hidden good has to be combined if ...
— Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays • Bertrand Russell
... all covered with ashes and dirt. (To Ogre.) Please, where can I find a towel and a ...
— Three Wonder Plays • Lady I. A. Gregory
... at the surrounding country. In the foreground was a wide dirt street at the rear of the station. For the equivalent of the length of a city block it was lined on both sides with wooden structures one-story in height, but with the false fronts of the frontier country pretending to second stories—a front wall sticking above the roof and with the semblance ...
— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge
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