Crossword-Solution: SQUALORS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 17

The realism, as it is called, that deals only with the banalities and squalors of life, and weaves into the mesh of its story no character but would make you yawn if you passed ten minutes with him in a railway-carriage, might well take a lesson from this man, if it had the brains.

The young green of the trees glittered under the gas like the trees of a pantomime; the kiosks threw their lights out upon the moving crowd; shops and cafes were all shining and alive; and on either hand rose the long line of stately houses, unbroken by any London or Manchester squalors and inequalities, towering as it seemed into the skies, and making for the great spectacle of life beneath them a setting more gay, splendid, and complete than any Englishman in his own borders can ever see.

How heavenly to find oneself in this wild clean country!--after all the ugly squalors of parade and lodging-house, after the dingy bow-windowed streets with the March dust whirling through them.

The noon-day sun beat down, eliciting abominable stenches and revealing, without compromise, the ugly squalors of the region.

That sagacious patriarch told his flock the things of week-day wisdom down to their level, the cleanly things next to godliness, to keep them from the million squalors that stain our Gentile poor; and if he did not sound much like the Gospel, he and Deuteronomy were alike as two peas.