Slums
[slʌmz]
Examples
- Sweating, slums, the sense of semi-slavery in labour, must go. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We passed across Holborn, down Endell Street, and so through a zigzag of slums to Covent Garden Market. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- There are bad girls in your slums. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Nothing could have better pleased the fierce heart of the Paris slums. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- If we were not there, he could come down to the slums at Goerck Street, and would play for an hour or two and talk philosophy. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
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