The soul in those eyes seemed longing to burn up the corruption of his body, longing to destroy the ruined temple, longing to speak and say, "I am in prison, but do not judge of the prisoner by examining the filthiness of his cell."
"The Woman With The Fan"
Robert Hichens
To Knox the mass is the symbol of all that he justly detested in the degraded Church as she then was in Scotland, "that horrible harlot with her filthiness."
"John Knox and the Reformation"
Andrew Lang
What would the age of chivalry be, if the chronicles had recorded only the brutality, filthiness and coarseness of their contemporaries?
"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"
Paul Leicester Ford