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• Forlorn babies played in the gutter, and men and women in every stage of raggedness and degradation marred the beauty of that fair Sunday morning Crowds were swarming into the Tabernacle: but, thanks to the order a friend had given her, Miss Livy was handed to a comfortable seat, with a haggard Magdalen on one side and a palsy-stricken old man on the other. —  Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag
• His first studies were made on the curbstone and in the gutter, and pretty soon he became the toughest boy in the neighborhood. —  The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
• For it would ill become so promising a young financier as J. Cuthbert Nickleby to be guilty of ingratitude, and there had been one raw wet night in the spring of a year long past when Nathaniel Lawson had rescued a miserable travesty of a man from the gutter--a night that Nickleby, once his benefactor had set him firmly upon his feet with a new lease of life, no doubt had schooled himself to forget for all time At any rate there had come an annual meeting at which Nat Lawson found himself in a quandary. —  Every Man for Himself
• "A man on a horse has aye hunders o' frien's in the gutter, as Annapla says, and it wad need to be somethin' rarer to get into Doom i' the mirk o' nicht. —  Doom Castle
• Does it cast intelligence into the gutter, and raise ignorance to the skies? —  Pushing to the Front

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