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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (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 ...". ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

The demolition centered on the pig-sty/poulailler* and the west wing of the farmhouse (where the tractor was once parked). ❋ Unknown (2007)

As the trucks roared in the background, Jean-Marc reported that the pig-sty had just been demolished. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I would have liked to keep the pig-sty, naturally. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Among the dead were 51 members of the same family… Groome added that in a final act of cruelty the room where the Muslims died was turned into a pig-sty. ❋ Johnny Guitar (2008)

A short ride from this lake, brought us to Ronciglione; a little town like a large pig-sty, where we passed the night. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As he put it, there was no joke in sleeping in a room with a numerous family of healthy Irish in one corner, and the pig-sty in the other, while over-head a ragged colony of roosting fowls distributed their blessings impartially, and the whole place so full of peat smoke that it made a fellow sneeze his head off just to put it inside the doorway. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The demolition centered on the pig-sty/poulailler* and the west wing of the farmhouse where the tractor was once parked. ❋ Unknown (2007)

As soon as we were out of the pig-sty, we entered on the Campagna ❋ Unknown (2007)