Continued recusancy was to be punished by placing filth outside the culprit's door on feast-days.
Thames, was obstructed by "filth of the tanners, and such others.
There is an old and mouldy smell about the place, telling that dank and fetid corners have been rummaged out to contribute to the stock of filththere accumulated.
Where the Stream is small, Care ought to be taken that its Course be not interrupted, and that no Filth or Nastiness, or any Thing that will spoil or corrupt the Water, be thrown into it.
He could not himself go into the fo'c's'le and strike; to do so would only spread the filth of words abroad.
He called Mauger to come aft and help him, and he proceeded with the utmost care to clean the lumps of ambergris of the filth that clung to them.
Each had thought of flight, of seeking some repose far from this Arcade of the Pont Neuf where the damp and filth seemed adapted to their desolated life.
And she had remained a child, senselessly believing in a thousand silly things, and unable to see life as it really is, dragging along in the sanguinary filth of passions.
Little by little her ears became polluted with an account of the filth and crimes of those whom she had called her children.
But they do not know the severity of the law; and therefore when at any time awakenings come upon their consciences, they strive to drive away the guilt of one sin, by wallowing in the filth of another.
There is that sinful filth and vileness that yet dwells in it, under which we groan earnestly all our days (2 Cor 5:1-3).
And would I, as was said before, be thoroughly saved, to wit, from the filth as from the guilt?
Though men do say, we do disgrace Ourselves by lying here Among the rogues, yet Christ our face From all such filth will clear.
Some professors, take them at the best, they are but like dogs, spewing out theirfilth for a time.
A state of indescribable filth existed everywhere; ventilation there was none in the proper sense.
Within an enclosure were a number of sacred hogs, wallowing in filth like any other swine.
Laws continued to be passed forbidding people to wash clothes in public fountains, to throw water and filth in the streets, and to loose pigs therein, but they were not very generally obeyed.
Uncleanly human practices, despite efforts to check them, led to the accumulation of filth and odors in the streets, and this condition was not remedied, although there were officials charged with the duty of street-cleaning.
Dysentery broke out among them, and was the most urgent malady when they landed at Plymouth in a state of filth and rags.
I have seen patients," says Ferriar, "in agonies of despair on finding themselves overwhelmed with filth and abandoned by everyone who could do them any service, and after such emotions I have seldom found them recover.
The floors and stairs were covered with the gathered filth of a whole winter; the straw bedding, never renewed, was thrown into a corner during the day to be spread again at night.
Having ventilated his project for the children, he proceeds to show that "their elders are every day dying and rotting by cold and famine, filth and vermin, as fast as can be reasonably expected.
Buchanan thought the best index of the degradation of the people in 1830 to be that not one in ten ever entered a church (if they had, he explains, the respectable congregation would have fled from their filth and rags).
At several places he found fever epidemic, part of it from the overcrowding and filth of the temporary barracks in which the people were living, part of it malarious from the damming of water by changes in the river beds.
Upon this open space was deposited, and left to accumulate for weeks together, the filth from the narrow lanes and passages of the low-lying and crowded quarter at the seaward end of the parish, to the south of the High Street.
The disease in its successive visitations so obviously sought out the spots of ground most befouled with excremental and other filth as to bring home to everyone the dangers of the casual disposal of town refuse.
The pilot who boarded her was at once struck by the horrible state of filth of the 'tween decks; he remained two days on board, and on returning home said to his wife, "This frigate will be heard of yet.
It's bad to see the poor little squalling brats in the filth and smoke down yonder, and worse still in this damned London.
All ordinary housekeepers are at the mercy of the filth and insolence of a draggle-tailed, novelette-reading feminine democracy.
A drain or passage to carry off water and filth under ground; a subterraneous channel, particularly in cities.
Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.
These tumbrels of beribboned and floweredfilth are insulted and pardoned by the public laughter, and the laughter of all is the accomplice of the universal degradation.
The like figure whereunto baptism doth now save us (not the putting away the filth of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience toward God,) by the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
It is their filth and blood which fructifies the music, which rasps the nerves even as the plays revolt the moral stomach.
Science had not yet proved that many forms of barnyard filth could do quite as much harm as distillery refuse.
The first protest was made, not by the church, not by sanitarians, but by the great merchants who were unable to insure against loss and ruin from the plagues that thrived on filth and overcrowding.
Half the filth that festers under the tropic sun in Guayaquil would breed a sudden pestilence in New York or Chicago, yet the inhabitants say it is a healthy city, where yellow-fever or cholera never comes.
The pavements are of the roughest cobble-stone, the streets are so narrow that scarcely a breath of air can enter them, and the sunshine cannot reach the pools of filth that steam and fester in the gutters, breeding plagues.
The most conspicuous feature of their life is the filth that surrounds them, and the freedom with which their pigs and chickens enjoy the shelter of the dwelling.
A fire that would burn out the older portion of the city would be a blessing, and might redeem Rio from some of its filth and ugliness.
Nothing can degrade it, and the filth in which it often grows only serves to heighten its beauty.
Are we in the midst of the Dark Ages; in European lands, and among the people of the tenth century, concerning whose stupendous ignorance and loathsome filth historians have had so much to say?
The magic wand of some frolicksome fay must have suddenly transformed the land of expected filthand wretchedness into a beauteous fairyland.
However, the dirt and filth that the cattle made annoyed them beyond measure, and they gave the dairy-maid to understand that if she did not remove the cows, she would have reason to repent it.
The latter, cheated out of a victory which was all but within its grasp, was more eager than ever to renew the fight at the first opportunity.
But if any were reported on the day of the battle, I can only say it was a mistake.
As for the use of the submarine against merchant shipping, to our eternal regret we never saw what it could do until after we had tried it.
