Outside the sun was scarcely rising, the pale daylight seemed dirtied by the muddy reflection of the pavement; it had rained the night before and it was very mild.
At length Boche appeared with a pot of pansies and Madame Boche with a pot of mignonette; then came Madame Lerat with a balm-mint, the pot of which had dirtied her violet merino dress.
I pulled out my rough map, all thumb-marked and dirtied with brick chips and the soil of the trenches, and showed stage by stage how the drama unrolled.
We then saw two blanched and trembling shopkeepers, whose dirtied clothes and dishevelled hair showed that they had had days and nights of the most wretched existence.
For she had lived alone so long that she had grown old-maidish, and she was feeling vexed with him for having dirtied the carpet with his muddy boots.
In my leisure moments I dirtied my clothes so that they might be washed at the laundry.
The paper was a note to me from Captain Dobson, of the schooner Ariel, but it was sodirtied and torn that I could only read part of it.
After he had been gone, I saw natives coming toward the camp, and I immediately fired a pistol; but before Goddard could return they came into the camp, and handed me a piece of paper, very much dirtied and torn.
It was soon remarked by the men-servants that he had left off clumping so heavily, and it was observed by the maids that he never dirtied the stairs or passages with his shoes.
And I'm damned if the best Gourlay that ever dirtied leather's gaun to trample owre me.
An English gentleman, who had suffered more than once from the annoyance of having his boots dirtied by a dog, was at last induced to watch his proceedings, and thus detected the tricks he was playing for his master's benefit.
One day, however, he returned with his coat dirtied and his ears scratched, having been subjected to a combined attack of the curs while he had charge of his towel and bread, and so could not defend himself.
When she had finished she dirtiedherself again, and let the lumps of the dough stick to her fingers, so that she became as ugly as before.
Jenik went to his old place near the stove, and dirtied himself in the ashes without anybody minding.
I tumbled down in the mud and dirtied my clothes, so I wanted to clean them," answered Norman, and he said no more.
When she had finished she dirtied herself again, and let lumps of the dough stick to her fingers, so that she became as ugly as before.
But, indeed, had you dirtied your face, as you unwisely omitted to do, I should have known you none the less.
By dint of washing and drying, the token of the sable stains was at length removed, and the veteran became, with some difficulty, satisfied that he had been moredirtied and frightened than hurt.
We had been at daggers drawn for years, and all because one evening, on coming back from the fair at Vieux-Bourg, I pushed her into a pool of water where she dirtied her frock.
I meant to tell you," added La Couteau, "that so much linen was dirtied during his illness that you really ought to add three francs for the soap.
One day a gentleman who paid a visit to Mr. Fitzwarren happened to have dirtied his shoes, and begged they might be cleaned.
A farmer's wife in the west had three pigs, which she loved exceedingly well, and fed them with good butter milk and whey; but they would come running into the house and dirtied the rooms.
It would be brought to their remembrance that same night when the road they took dirtied them up so badly, and afterwards.
The exception contained in this sentence is the only intimation that all was not unity and harmony among Friends in the "City of Brotherly Love.
Fisher, who, with his worthy children, extended to me the most affectionate care and attention; and I had also the kind sympathy of a large portion of Friends in that city.
The only living creatures were himself and this shrunken, dirtied being who shouted in his ear, descending ever into a darkening pit.
