irk

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At the bottom flows, or rather stagnates, the Irk, a narrow, coal-black, foul-smelling stream, full of débris and refuse, which it deposits on the shallower right bank. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

Irk, to become slothful, grow weary, tire, 2709.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

The whole side of the Irk is built in this way, a planless, knotted chaos of houses, more or less on the verge of uninhabitableness, whose unclean interiors fully correspond with their filthy external surroundings. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

The newly-built extension of the Leeds railway, which crosses the Irk here, has swept away some of these courts and lanes, laying others completely open to view. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence

The south bank of the Irk is here very steep and between fifteen and thirty feet high. 

From The Condition of the Working-Class in England in 1844 with a Preface written in 1892 by Kelley, Florence