Garbage and offal of all kinds must be so disposed of that rats can not obtain them.
It is a common practice to leave offal of slaughtered animals to be eaten by rats and swine, and this is the chief means of perpetuating trichinae in pork.
The law should require that offal be promptly cremated or otherwise disposed of.
James's Square was still the receptacle for alloffal and cinders, for all the dead cats and dead dogs of Westminster, whilst Voltaire's scathing description of the streets of Paris was no exaggeration.
We lads of Offal Court do strive against each other with the cudgel, like to the fashion of the 'prentices, sometimes.
He spoke of it once to some of his Offal Court comrades; but they jeered him and scoffed him so unmercifully that he was glad to keep his dream to himself after that.
All Offal Court was just such another hive as Canty's house.
It was the sort of time that all the Offal Court boys had, therefore he supposed it was the correct and comfortable thing.
The house which Tom's father lived in was up a foul little pocket called Offal Court, out of Pudding Lane.
In 1864 an East Lothian (Scotland) farmer fed his pigs with the offal of a slaughtered anthrax bullock, and lost nearly the whole herd.
It has recently been claimed that pigs are insusceptible, but I have known of many instances in which the offal of anthrax cattle, when devoured by pigs, has determined fatal anthrax in the latter.
On one occasion the owner, John Zoller, fed the offal of a dead bullock to his pigs, which were speedily attacked with anthrax, and as speedily killed to save their bacon (Dr.
In India these packs visit the native villages by night, to carry away any offal which may have been thrown out of the houses.
In some parts of Africa these animals roam about by night in large packs, entering the native villages, and searching the streets for the offalwhich has been thrown out from the huts.
But they also devour large quantities of the offal which they find in the streets of the villages and towns.
Much offal in industry and housekeeping could not be more usefully employed than by cattle raising.
Old bones, soot and ashes, the blood of animals and all kinds of offal should be collected in establishments erected for this purpose and prepared for shipment.
In the same way, the offal and refuse from kitchens and industrial establishments that might also be used for manure, are usually carelessly wasted.
Especially the cities and industrial centers, which receive large quantities of food, return very little of the valuable offal to the soil.
Often the offal obtainable on the farms does not suffice, because the human beings and animals from which it is obtained have consumed only a small portion of the crops.
Garbage and all kinds ofoffal will be carried out of the houses by waste-pipes like the water that has been used.
They would be neglecting too much, were they to look for any class of thing in particular, though equally appreciative of offal when it happens to come in their way.
I have observed this when rooks and hooded crows have been gathered together about some offal which they were devouring.
Like the rooks, they spend most of the day in looking for food, and eating it when found, their habit being to beat about in the air, making wider or narrower circles, whilst examining the ground beneath for any offal that may be lying there.
The offal of game and the hair from dressed skins mingle in one mass, which soon putrefies and creates such a stench that only an Eskimo with most obtuse sense of smell could inhabit the place.
The skin is dried and preserved for wear on the feet or for the purpose of cleansing the hands, which have become soiled with blood or other offal in skinning large game.
Among the attractive viands suitable for this purpose we may mention mussels, crushed crabs, pounded liver, the guts of any oily fish, and the offal of almost any animal.
The net is baited with bread, crushed mussels, or offal of almost any kind, and is then lowered several feet below the surface by means of a long pole, to the end of which it is suspended.
However, the eyes of the band glittered, like those of a pack of hounds when the moment draws near for the offal of the quarry to be distributed.
I was not sorry to leave this house, for, tearing up the offal around the building, I counted as many as sixty black vultures.
Offal littered up the doorway, and the children in their glee danced in the red blood.
The shore of the town is very unpleasant, reeking with smells, and at low tide lined with all the refuse and offal of the place.
Here is the fish and provision market, built of bamboos, picturesque, but reeking with horrible smells and alive with flies; hard by is a stagnant pool into which is cast all the offal and filth of this disgusting market.
While he sat reflecting a moment over the ease with which he was doing strange and glittering miracles, a happy thought shot into his mind: why not make his mother Duchess of Offal Court, and give her an estate?
Poor chap, he was still new to the customs of royalty; he was used to seeing the forlorn dead of Offal Court hustled out of the way with a very different sort of expedition.
Inquire, before buying, where they were caught, and give so decided a preference to country eels as to refuse those fattened upon the offal of city wharves.
If you want to know what you really pay for poultry bought in these circumstances, weigh the offal extracted from the fowl by your cook, and deduct from the market weight.
Hell-fire" originally meant a fire kindled in the vicinity of Jerusalem to consume the offal of the city.
Almost all farmers keep one or more pigs to devour the offal and refuse, which would otherwise be wasted.
These hogs were frequent visitors, and very destructive to our grassy sward, rooting it up in front of our tents and all about us; in pursuit of bulbous roots and offal from the camp.
And put out offal away from camp over night, and look next day at the foot tracks where it lay.
They dog the shepherd from camp to camp, the hunter home from the hill, and will even carry away offal from under his hand.
The proportion of meat on the valuable parts is greater, and the offal less, than on most other breeds, while it is well settled that they consume less food in its production.
Here all the refuse and offal of the city was carried and consumed, in a conflagration whose fire was never quenched, and amidst an uncleanness whose worms never died.
If he had the appetite of a tiger or a vulture, then, thus to wallow in the offal of vice, dive into the carrion of sensuality, abandon himself to revelling in carnivorous crime, might be his instinct and his happiness.
Moreover, she commended to dig a pit without the city and burn therein his flesh and bones and throw over his ashes offal and ordure.
And I the while said in my mind, 'Doubtless the eunuchry seized me, because their mistress smelt the stink of the offal and it sickened her.
Hylactor got only the offal and the coarser bits, the rest Agathemer made into a relishable broth flavored with marjoram, bay-leaves and other herbs.
From this and other sources, it appears that one of the chief evils complained of was due to the blood and offal in the shambles of Newgate Street.
There was a Butchers' Bridge on the Thames side, near Baynards Castle, to which the offal was brought from Newgate Street through the streets and lanes of the city, by which 'grievous corruption and filth have been generated.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "offal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
