 The gaping chinks admitted every blast; the leaning chimneys had lost half their original height ; the rotten rafters were evidently misplaced ; while in many instances the thatch, yawning in some parts to admit the wind and wet, and in all utterly unfit...  Douglas Jerrold's Shilling Magazine - Side 561redigeret af - 1845Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners - 1842 - 542 sider
...rotten and displaced ; and the thatch, yawning to admit the wind and wet in some parts, and in all parts utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looks more like the top of a dunghill than of a cottage. " Such is the exterior ; and when the hind... | |
 | Robert Benton Seeley - 1843 - 462 sider
...rotten and displaced ; and the thatch yawning to admit the wind and wet in some parts, and in all parts utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looks more the top of a dunghill than a cottage. Such is the exterior ; and when the hind comes to... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1845 - 996 sider
...and from age, or badness of the material, looking as if they could scarcely hold together. The gaping chinks admitted every blast ; the leaning chimneys...doors of these dwellings, and often surrounding them, ran open drains full of animal and vegetable refuse, decomposing into disease, or sometimes in their... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 606 sider
...and from age, or badness of the material, looking as if they could scarcely hold together. The gaping chinks admitted every blast ; the leaning chimneys...doors of these dwellings, and often surrounding them, ran open drains full of animal and vegetable refuse, decomposing into disease, or sometimes in their... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1845 - 454 sider
...and from age, or badness of the material, looking as if they could scarcely hold together. The gaping chinks admitted every blast; the leaning chimneys...looked more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage. Bef ve the doors of these dwellings, and often surrounding them , ran open drains full of animal and... | |
 | Douglas Jerrold - 1845 - 658 sider
...and from age, or badness of the material, looking as if they could scarcely hold together. The gaping chinks admitted every blast ; the leaning chimneys...for its original purpose of giving protection from tlie weather, looked more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage. Before the doors of these dwellings,... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1845 - 496 sider
...and, from age or badness of the material, looking as if they could scarcely hold together. The gaping chinks admitted every blast; the leaning chimneys...all utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protectionfrom the weather, looked more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage. Before the doors... | |
 | 1850 - 270 sider
...and displaced; and the thatch, yawning to admit the wind and the wet in some parts, and in all parts utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looks more like the top of a dunghill than of a cottage.' ' Such is the exterior; and when the hind... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 470 sider
...and displaced, and the thatch, yawning to admit thewind and the wet in some places, and in all parts utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looks more like the top of a dunghill than a cottage. The hind when he takes possession finds it no... | |
 | Joseph Kay - 1850 - 680 sider
...rotten and displaced ; and the thatch yawning to admit the wind and wet in some parts, and in all parts utterly unfit for its original purpose of giving protection from the weather, looks more like the top of a dunghill than of a cottage. " Such is the interior ; and when the hind... | |
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