Maggie: A Girl of the Streets Quotes

She dragged him to an unholy sink, and, soaking a rag in water, began to scrub his lacerated face with it. (2.17)

Howls of renewed wrath went up from Devil's Row throats. Tattered gamins on the right made a furious assault on the gravel heap. On their small, convulsed faces there shone the grins of true assass...

Jimmie's occupation for a long time was to stand on street corners and watch the world go by, dreaming blood-red dreams at the passing of pretty women. (4.8)

Down the avenue came boastfully sauntering a lad of sixteen years, although the chronic sneer of an ideal manhood already sat upon his lips. His hat was tipped with an air of challenge over his eye...

In the street infants played or fought with other infants or sat stupidly in the way of vehicles. (2.1)

From a window of an apartment house that upreared its form from amid squat, ignorant stables, there leaned a curious woman. Some laborers, unloading a scow at a dock at the river, paused for a mome...

She received daily a small sum in pennies. It was contributed, for the most part, by persons who did not make their homes in that vicinity. (3.2)

Momentarily, Jimmie was sullen with thoughts of a hopeless altitude where grew fruit. His companion said that if he should ever meet God he would ask for a million dollars and a bottle of beer. (4.9)