The fact that her mutilated body was in a filthy alley behind an Arlington bookstore, seemed to be just another desecration of her succinct life.

The Paris of the Pathans, they call it, and its filthy alleys teem with every race in the East.

Suddenly his hand was flattened over her mouth and he was dragging her backward toward the filthy, dark alley.

The streets of Chinatown were unpaved, filthy alleys that wound haphazardly past open cesspools.

We turned right after the hotel and walked down a filthy alley lined with garbage bins.

After hiding in filthy alleys and two narrow escapes, she'd finally managed to trade Talon's fine cutlass to secure a small boat.

She was dragged quickly and quietly into a filthy alley beside the public house.

She could see him, too, the shadow of him crouched in the filthy alley, hands slick with blood as he tidied up.

His headquarters was a series of abandoned cellars beneath the ruined houses at the end of a filthy alley.

Swan followed him through the narrow, filthy alleys.