1 The narrow passage led us into a quadrangle paved with flags and lined by sordid dwellings.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART I: CHAPTER IV. WHAT JOHN RANCE HAD TO TELL 2 In glowing sentences he painted a picture of Animal Farm as it might be when sordid labour was lifted from the animals' backs.
3 So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the things it looks upon to bless.
4 You know I am a sordid piece of human nature, ready to sell myself at any time for any reasonable sum, and altogether incapable of any Arcadian proceeding whatever.
5 And however one might sentimentalize it, this sex business was one of the most ancient, sordid connexions and subjections.
6 His wife was a thin, pale, sharp kind of person with no fortune of her own, and the misfortune of having to regulate her husband's rather sordid amorous exploits.
7 I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 8 The sweat, the heat, the journey on foot, the dust, added I know not what sordid quality to this dilapidated whole.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 9 The den upon which his eye now rested was abject, dirty, fetid, pestiferous, mean, sordid.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VI—THE WILD MAN IN HIS LAIR 10 She was barefooted and in rags, as on the day when she had so resolutely entered his chamber, only her rags were two months older now, the holes were larger, the tatters more sordid.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV—AN APPARITION TO MARIUS 11 Bonacieux was one of profound selfishness mixed with sordid avarice, the whole seasoned with extreme cowardice.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In 13 MONSIEUR BONACIEUX 12 Amidst this sordid scene, sat a man with his clenched hands resting on his knees, and his eyes bent on the ground.
13 I could not bear to return to the sordid village, where, besides, no prospect of aid was visible.
14 She always felt uneasy driving past this dirty, sordid cluster of discarded army tents and slave cabins.
15 It was not less tragic because it was so sordid, because it had to do with wages and grocery bills and rents.