Their special part of the town-the Jews' Quarter-is a mass of filth, so disgusting, so ill-smelling, that one would think it must surely breed all sorts of contagious diseases; but here they live on in unwholesome dens, amid undrained, narrow streets and lanes, often in almost roofless tenements.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
"When the time does come," he said once to Cards, "and one is allowed to do things, I'll stop a lot of this filth."
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
That was one of the secrets of her personality-the maintenance of their relations upon a plane above the filth and languor of the flesh, yet unsupported by the conventional props of tradition and honour.
"Command"
William McFee