“Now they must scurry back through the grimy crevices…from where they had crept,” says the New Times.
It is a humiliating climbdown for a country that, until a few months ago, imported Polish workers to do its grimy jobs.
The cell was a small room with a single lightbulb hanging very far away from the cement-decked ceiling; the floor was dark and grimy from urine, tears, sweat, and feces.
Pug rubbed a hand over his grimy stubby face.
The poles of dreamy ideal and grimy real are represented in the novel by the colours gold and yellow, threaded through the book like a Schubertian leitmotif.
A curious fetichistic fear of this grimy volume on the part of her mother prevented her ever allowing it to stay in the house all night, and hither it was brought back whenever it had been consulted.
Both dogs looked grimy.
The setting is misty, murky and grimy – so surreal and nightmarish, it seems as if the children’s dreams wouldn’t be pleasant enough to please Krank anyway.
As Nansen wrote in his diary, "Johansen is asleep, and making the hut resound. I am glad his mother cannot see him now … so black and grimy and ragged as he is."
The promised gold of the Reagan years, burnished to a shine in the new millennium, has turned a grimy yellow.
The walls are grimy.
The million-dollar puppy that's been fattened with abalone, or the grimy dog with brown and white splotches who stood over his friend until he found help: which do you think of as a perfect specimen?
We could see it pumping furiously in his grimy hand. He then put the heart in my hand where I felt it beating and slowing.
You've been seated, they've given you water and bread, and you decide - because the place is a bit grimy or too expensive, or nothing on its menu is appealing - that you want to leave.
Across from the recycling center, there's a grimy shop with two battered video game consoles.
The walls, grimy with sections of peeling paint, revealed decades of hard living.
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