Word: guttered
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...Vincent Sampleses' marriage certainly did not seem made in heaven. In fact, it began in a gutter. Vincent picked up the girl, Geraldine, in a bar at the dead end of a two-week binge. As they left the bar together, Samples fell down in the street. Geraldine's friends urged her to leave him there, but she thought he needed help. In gratitude Vincent married her next day. But after five years and one son, Geraldine had enough, and they got a divorce. Soon she and Vincent decided to try again, and were remarried. But after four...
This is a thoroughly democratic company, with aristocrats and harlots, gutter murderers and great ladies rattling their bones together in funereal camaraderie...
...Gutter patriot," said George Orwell, the grey-voiced conscience of the British left...
...record noted with satisfaction the evil fate that had befallen three of the chief figures in her trial: Bishop Cauchon died suddenly while a barber was trimming his beard, Canon Jean d'Estivet, the "promoter," i.e., prosecutor, disappeared mysteriously and his body was discovered in a gutter, and their right-hand man, Nicolas Midy, was stricken with leprosy...
...Christian (Southern Baptist) with a Bible Belt (geographically and disciplinary) upbringing, I'm humbly grateful to Herman Wouk for his mutiny against the filth, pseudo-realism, gutter-slanted "frankness," cynicism and foul language so common in "better" literature today...