Did he not yearn to help in the great famine and fever districts; long to enter the deep depravities of the lower cities with healing?
"Son of Power"
Will Levington Comfort and Zamin Ki Dost
I may make myself better understood if I say that his attitude towards the depravities of a smaller New York is much the same as that of Mr. Stead towards the wickedness of a much larger Chicago.
"Short Stories and Essays From "Literature and Life""
William Dean Howells
Young Telesphore's depravities supplied this household with its only domestic tragedy.
"Maria Chapdelaine A Tale of the Lake St. John Country"
Louis Hemon