Lastly, why does not this inconsistent puritan purge the Old Testament of its allusions to human ordureand the pudenda; to carnal copulation and impudent whoredom, to adultery and fornication, to onanism, sodomy and bestiality?
Finally, they found a montjoy or heap of ordure and filth.
It is, that the flies would be so liquorish of them that you would wonder, and would quickly gather there together, and there leave their ordure and excretions, and so all the work would be spoiled.
He grasp'd his horn, and sputtering as he stood The ordure forth, the Argives thus bespake.
Ordure foul His mouth, andordure foul his nostrils fill'd.
A broken pillar, not uncouthly hewn, But which Neglect is hastening to destroy, Records Ravenna's carnage on its face, While weeds and ordure rankle round the base.
With human ordure is it now defiled, As if the peasant's scorn this mode invented To show his loathing of the thing he soiled.
Under its thick mantle of ordure the grub of the Lily-beetle escapes the troubles so fatal to its cousin of the asparagus.
Can it be that there was a schism among the primitive scavengers and that these, at first addicted to the same industry, afterwards divided the hygienic task, some burying the ordure of the intestines, the others the ordure of death?
That as a primary condition of salubrity, no ordure and town refuse can be permitted to remain beneath or near habitations.
Civillari, according to the commentators, was the name of an alley in Florence, where all the ordure and filth of the neighbourhood was deposited and stored in trenches for manure.
The ordure of carnivorous animals seems to have a special charm for some of the most magnificently colored and the rarest of tropical butterflies.
It sits on the upper side of leaves, with its fore wings folded over, or rolled about the hind wings, and in this attitude it so nearly approximates in appearance the ordure of a sparrow as to have often deceived me when collecting.
The fly that had flown up from the ordure of the slums, bringing with it the leaven of social rottenness, had poisoned all these men by merely alighting on them.
At that time he was risking his all, for he had been so utterly overpowered by his taste for ordure and stupidity as to have even lost the vigor of his skepticism.
The Pope-Ass has emitted a great and horrible ordure here.
He adds: “The very name of Harry stinks like devil’s ordure freshly dropped in Germany.
What is found about the belly of the whale is commonly spoiled by the wet, and has an unpleasant scent; but the ambergris which is not contaminated by the ordure in the belly of the whale, is perfectly good[20].
By that time there had been slavers enough in the bay to bring all the ordure that the hypothesis requires.
There was a very bad old man there, who, when he met any one, would spit in his face, blow his nose upon him, and rub ordure upon him.
It is said that the ordure of the Grand Lama of Thibet was at one time so venerated that it was collected and worn as amulets.
Bourke also cites instances in which human ordure was eaten by East Indian fanatics.
Numerous authorities are quoted by Bourke to prove the alleged use of ordure in food by the ancient Israelites.
And evere the gretter merite shal he han, that most restreyneth the wikkede eschaufinges of the ordure of this sinne.
For right as a sowe wroteth in everich ordure, so wroteth she hir beautee in the stinkinge ordure of sinne.
The pile of ordure has this in its favor, that it tells no falsehood, and simplicity has taken refuge there.
It is known that by washing the sewer we mean restoring the ordure to the earth by sending dung to the arable lands and manure to the grass lands.
But in the good old times the capital had but little head; it did not know how to transact its business either morally or materially, and could no more sweep away its ordure than its abuses.
And while I am searching down there with my eye, I saw one with his head so foul with ordure that it was not apparent whether he were layman or clerk.
When the famine began to be felt, the people were compelled to support themselves upon the grass of the fields and the ordure of animals,[164] the poor routed up cemeteries, and disputed with the worms the spoils of coffins.
