Meanings of swarm with vermin in English

Generally the houses are filthy and ill ventilated and swarm with vermin.

Their dwellings are extremely filthy, and swarm with vermin, as the fowls, goats, or even a cow or two, generally increase the domestic party.

He knew that the soil of Egypt would once swarm with vermin, and it revolted him to think of his corpse exposed to such uncleanness.

The hut was swarming with vermin, blackened by smoke and filled with stenches.

They were all hideous and filthy, and swarming with vermin.

The jails were loathsome dungeons, swarming with vermin, unventilated, unwarmed.

The place where he lay was indescribably filthy, and his body was swarming with vermin.

Suffered exceedingly from thirst, the water in the jug being absolutely putrid and swarming with vermin.

An enormous dust-heap, swarming with vermin, that's all.

Cranz speaks of "their filthy clothes swarming with vermin."

All our property had been taken away from us, and our clothes were in rags and swarming with vermin.

They were swarming with vermin, but we wore mackintosh overalls which are supposed to be anathema to the beasties.

Each mark represented a violent death-ofan insect, for the place swarmed with vermin, a plague with which no person could cope single-handed.

In one room, with a wee window, lies a women dying of consumption; wasted wan, and wretched, lying on rags and swarming with vermin.

We were ordered to strip and bathe, each man to scrub his neighbor's back- aneedlessprecaution, this compulsory bath, for the prison swarmed with vermin.

The houses in the village swarmed with vermin; bats in the thatch, fire-ants (formiga de fogo) under the floors; cockroaches and spiders on the walls.