"Filthy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he gruffly, "in one minute; just as soon as you give me those beads on your neck, and that watch; and if you hand 'em over quietly yourself you'll save me the trouble of gagging you with this,"—dragging a filthy handkerchief from his pocket,—"and taking them off myself; 'n I ain't no lady's maid, either," he added grimly, "'n ...
— Kristy's Rainy Day Picnic • Olive Thorne Miller
... demanded and received the return of his written promise of joining the Reformers. On the following day, irritated by some show of resistance, the people of Dundee and Perth burned the palace of Scone and the abbey, "whereat no small number of us was offended." An old woman said that "filthy beasts" dwelt "in that den," to her private knowledge, "at whose words many were pacified." The old woman is an excellent ...
— John Knox and the Reformation • Andrew Lang
... learned another useless vice since I left the world, and one that is filthy also," she said, sniffing at the smoke and waving her hand before her face, whereon I dropped the pipe into my pocket, where, being alight, it burnt a hole ...
— She and Allan • H. Rider Haggard
... of the native is washed clean, and purified from the odour of the filthy pigment with which it is bedaubed, the crop of hair is very abundant, and the appearance of it beautiful, being a silken, glossy, and curly black. Great pains are, however, used to destroy or mar this ...
— Journals Of Expeditions Of Discovery Into Central • Edward John Eyre
... at me with his cold fishy eyes. "Is there any sign on the door saying that boarders are charged extra for seven feet of filthy river ...
— The Case of Jennie Brice • Mary Roberts Rinehart
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