 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 - Page 561edited by - 1845Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Poor Law Commissioners - Great Britain - 1842 - 542 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1843 - 462 pages
...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) - Chartism - 1845 - 996 pages
...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 - English periodicals - 1845 - 606 pages
...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 - Chartism - 1845 - 454 pages
...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 - English periodicals - 1845 - 658 pages
...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 - Chartism - 1845 - 496 pages
...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... | |
 | Arts - 1850 - 270 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...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 - Education - 1850 - 678 pages
...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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