Word: filth
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...much good as farming land but we can build a house there. It has rocks and I know how to blast stone. It will save us our rent, 2,000 lire a month." Concetta had tears in her eyes. "If only I can get out of this filth," she said, "I don't mind begging for bread. It's something, anyhow...
...Italy at all; stop off only at museum pieces such as Belgium's Bruges-"a lovely stuffed bird." If, on the other hand, your stomach is strong enough to take the parfumerie with the campanile, the tinsel bambino with the David of Michelangelo, the abysmal filth with the supreme sunlight-then make your pilgrimage to the cities of Italy, remembering always the words of a loth Century Irish bard...
...young Suzanne training herself to be a missionary. She used family pull for permission to attend lectures at a medical school, where she hid behind a screen so that the other medical students would not know a female was present. She spent two years nursing soldiers in the filth of the Crimean War. Then, still in her early 20s, she met a French missionary bishop on his way back to New Zealand. Suzanne decided that the time had at last come to leave home...
...shocked by conditions he saw in India: the opium dens of Calcutta, the wandering lepers crying "Baksheesh," the filth and poverty of the villages. "I learned that one meal a day was all the majority of the people could count on . . . In those villages it took no effort...
...When I remember thee in time to come, O Jerusalem, it will not be with delight...The dreary deposits of 2,000 years filled with inhumanity, intolerance and filth lie in your evil-smelling alleys...