31 examples of cesspool in sentences

There an aged seafaring person, temporarily stranded, mulcted the Professor of a dollaran undertaking that required no artand in the course of his recital touched upon yonder little cesspool of infernal iniquities.

It must be removed from the ammoniacal influence of the stables, from open drains and cesspools, and other gaseous influences likely to affect the paint and varnish.

It was the very cesspool for the offscourings of humanity.

We seemed to travel through an interminable cesspool, but at last reached the open, and coming to another gate, he extended his arms on it, after the manner of a squire, and said, "There, there's Naples.

Rumor had it that Faraway was a cesspool of iniquity.

They are emptied daily by contract into the citadel cesspool, which communicates with the main sewer of Cairo.

They are arranged over cesspools 18 feet deep, disinfected every day with whitewash and cresol, and are quite odourless.

They shot Couthon in the leg, they threw Henriot out of the window into a cesspool below where he wallowed all night, while Le Bas blew out his brains.

" Peter took the water that had been brought from the semi-cesspool at the end of the street.

dunghill, colluvies^, mixen^, midden, bog, laystall^, sink, privy, jakes; toilet, john, head; cess^, cesspool; sump, sough, cloaca, latrines, drain, sewer, common sewer; Cloacina; dust hole.

The words "cesspool" and "wet-trap"words to which I don't pretend to attach any meaningseemed to be particular favourites of his.

His very desk took on a pathetic expression, as of a place that was so soon to know him no more for ever; and Mr. Smith, wrangling over wet-traps and cesspools at the counter, just as on the first day he had heard him, almost moved him to tears.

The Persian port is cool and pleasant enough in winter-time, but in summer the stench from open drains and cesspools becomes unbearable, and Europeans (of whom there are thirty or forty) remove en masse to Sabsabad, a country place eight or ten miles off.

"Dear Bambi," he wrote, "I am in this vile cesspool of humanity again, and I feel like a drowning gnat.

"What a hideous cesspool it is!" was his comment.

Yet, two highly respectable towns compete for the honour of having been this particular cesspool, just as ten cities fought to be the birthplace of Homer.

Thus are discarded and disgusting impostures brought up from the literary cesspools of Spain to form for us the history of events that, transpired on this continent hardly more than three hundred years ago!"

The Tin Soldier of the Danish army and the paper boat of the Danish navy, as in the story, were swept away down the great gutter, down that colossal cloaca that leads to the vast cesspool of Berlin.

These are sunk in a stratum of gravel in which are countless cesspools, the filtration of which extends through the entire stratum and poisons every well within the limits of their influence.

Wherever man is, there may you hear its sibilant whisper, and its foul spawn squirm and sting and poison in nests of hidden noisomeness, myriad as the spores of corruption in a putrefying carcass, varying in size from some hydra-headed infamy endangering whole nations and even races with its deadly breath, to the microscopic wrigglers that multiply, a million a minute, in the covered cesspools of private life.

This is the supreme miracle of genius,the fine union of dramatic instinct, the aesthetic sense, and an intense, vital realism; not the realism of the cesspool or the morgue, but the realism of the earth and sky, and of healthy human nature.

I glean the stinking materials for my stories from the sewers and cesspools of life.

Her philosophy seemed to be founded on the knowledge that uncovered cesspools were bound to be unpleasant, and, since she had no desire to assist in their purification, she was quite content to keep them properly screened.

It should be thoroughly drained that there may be no source of dampness, but should not be connected with a sewer or a cesspool.

"And youyou live in this cesspool of sin and still believe in a Heaven?"

31 examples of  cesspool  in sentences