pig-sty

At the height of the afternoon, a feverish languor seizes the fishermen and the milkmaid who was kissed "once by the pig-sty when she wasn't looking and never kissed again although she was looking all the time", the wives and Mae Rose Cottage, who draws lipstick circles around her nipples.

A Gloriously Musical Play for Voices Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

Kept in a form of modern concubinage in which they are periodically serviced with narcotic intromissions of salary, expenses, allowances and granted the odd chance to play with a few minor levers of power, our erstwhile Masters will have been reduced to the level of the pig-sty whose denizens they are so keen to emulate.

Where Are The Boyars Now? 2008

T. S.Eliot wrote these lines in 1942, a tiny fragment of the poem Little Gidding that became the fourth of the Four Quartets - ... "turn behind the pig-sty to the dull facade ...".

Behind the Pig-Sty Peter Ashley 2008

Kept in a form of modern concubinage in which they are periodically serviced with narcotic intromissions of salary, expenses, allowances and granted the odd chance to play with a few minor levers of power, our erstwhile Masters will have been reduced to the level of the pig-sty whose denizens they are so keen to emulate.

Archive 2008-01-20 2008

The demolition centered on the pig-sty/poulailler* and the west wing of the farmhouse (where the tractor was once parked).

French Word-A-Day: 2007

As the trucks roared in the background, Jean-Marc reported that the pig-sty had just been demolished.

French Word-A-Day: 2007

As the trucks roared in the background, Jean-Marc reported that the pig-sty had just been demolished.

French Word-A-Day: 2007

The demolition centered on the pig-sty/poulailler* and the west wing of the farmhouse (where the tractor was once parked).

French Word-A-Day: 2007

I would have liked to keep the pig-sty, naturally.

French Word-A-Day: 2007

I would have liked to keep the pig-sty, naturally.

French Word-A-Day: 2007