grimy-walled

Updated: May 2, 2025

I walked hard; I walked till I was mud-splashed to the shoulders; I walked through the squalid, maddening sameness of miles of dingy, grimy-walled blocks and rows of four-storied houses till I felt smothered jailed, hopelessly. "Best get home and in, and draw the blinds on it," I said, "or my brain will turn."

Henry Lawson - Children of the Bush