Meanings of sordid surroundings in anglès

The girl's beauty and talents were as nothing when weighed against such sordid surroundings.

How pretty she looked standing there in those sordid surroundings!

It looked bright and church-like amid the sordid surroundings.

For a moment it seemed as though she were stepping out of her sordid surroundings.

Amid the sordid surroundings of Charlot's private quarters the Captain and the Deputy supped that evening.

This "rentière," or person living upon independent means, did not match her sordid surroundings.

The sordid surroundings of Newgate, its thieves, male and female, its thieve takers, gave zest to her naturalness and simplicity.

It seemed very absurd to talk about breaking hearts- atired ,silentman; a woman unlovely from sordid surroundings, from age, and from care.

In the sordid surroundings of the mean streets of great cities, there is developing in women practical wisdom and a fine sense of individual responsibility.

You come into these sordid surroundings-youmustn't mind my calling them sordid-andit makes them seem as though they didn't matter....

Sordid surroundings, ignorance, and overcrowding did the rest.