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"Dirtiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... wear linen gowns, or cotton, I mean stuffs made of vegetable substances. I would have no silks: you cannot tell when it is clean: it will be very nasty before it is perceived to be so; linen detects its own dirtiness." His virtue thawed instead of becoming more rigid in the North. "This evening," records Boswell of their visit to an Hebridean chief, "one of our married ladies, a lively pretty little woman, good-humouredly sat ...
— Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) • Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi
... hubbub at the Court. Nobody dared to refuse to offer his plate, yet each offered it with much regret. Some had been keeping it as a last resource, which they; were very sorry to deprive themselves of; others feared the dirtiness of copper and earthenware; others again were annoyed at being obliged to imitate an ungrateful fashion, all the merit of which would go to the inventor. It was in vain that Pontchartrain objected to the project, as one from which only trifling benefit could be derived, and which ...
— The Memoirs of Louis XIV., His Court and The Regency, Complete • Duc de Saint-Simon |
Words linked to "Dirtiness" : salacity, soil, obscenity, grubbiness, smuttiness, grease, dinge, impureness, griminess, salaciousness, bawdiness, squalor, lewdness, grime, impurity, dirt, pollution, dinginess, stain, sordidness, feculence, befoulment, sootiness, cleanness, defilement, dustiness, dirty, grunge |
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