It must not be thought that Sir Ferdinando was moved only by material and merely sanitary considerations; for the placing of his privies in an exalted position he had also certain excellent spiritual reasons.
Were it not for tradition and the explicit account of them left by Sir Ferdinando, we should be unaware that these noble privies had ever existed.
Permanence, transience--Sir Ferdinando and his privies were gone, Crome still stood.
To have a theory about privies and to build an immense and splendid house in order to put it into practise--it's magnificent, beautiful!
Hence it followed inevitably that the privies were to be placed at the top of the house, being connected by vertical shafts with pits or channels in the ground.
The thought of these vanished privies moved him profoundly.
Those girls were naked except that they wore a garment made of the said palm-tree cloth before their privies and which hung from the waist to the knee, although some were quite naked.
They bind theirprivies close to their bodies because of the exceeding great cold.
Their breasts are one-half braza long, and they are painted and clothed like their husbands, except that before their privies [natura] they have a small skin which covers them.
They keep the privies uncovered, and the body is without hair, [68] while both men and women always go naked.
So great is the menace of the ordinary box privy that a number of inexpensive and simple sanitary privies have been designed for use where there are not modern sewer systems.
Howard has emphasized that in such cities there are still many uncared-for box privies and that, in addition, the deposition of feces overnight in uncared-for waste lots and alleys is common.
They go naked, covering only the privies with some articles called bahaques, made from the bark of trees.
They go totally naked, and only have their privies covered with some coverings resembling linen cloths, which they draw on from the back forward, and which are called bahaques.
It would aid our studies if we could say that wherever assigns are to get the benefit of a covenant as privies in estate with the covenantee, they must be mentioned in the covenant.
Only priviesin estate with the original covenantee can have the benefit of covenants for title.
Only those who were privies in estate with the original feoffee to uses, were bound by the use.
The germs may be spread by the waste from the typhoid patient by being thrown on the ground where it is taken up by the water and passes into streams or it may enter wells from privies or cesspools.
In order to keep the right path, they undress and expose their privies to the air, and by that observance they say that they make sure of the right road; for then the patianac is afraid of them and cannot lead them astray.
In order to prevent any harm from the patianac, the men take their position naked and with their privies exposed to the air; and arm themselves with shield, catan, lance, and other arms.
There were eight privies in the yard, and we entered them.
The drain from the privies connecting with the sewer in the street had a man-hole, which was open, at the place where the yard was broken for a descent into this infernal cellar.
Building contracts specified the provision of adequate cesspits for the privies at town houses, whether the toilets were built into the house or as an outhouse.
There were common and public privies for those without their own.
The dry-earth treatment ofprivies is unsatisfactory.
In the absence of modern methods of sewage disposal, absolutely sanitary privies are prime necessities, whether in towns or on farms.
Since the fecal matter in suchprivies is seldom used for fertilizing purposes it may well be treated liberally with borax.
Privies and sinks are more numerous than modern closets, and are handled as elsewhere, with the usual results.
The Furlenbach was unquestionably contaminated by the privies of the adjacent farm-houses; the soil-pits communicated with it.
Water-closets and privies should also be disinfected daily with the same fluid or a solution of chloride of iron, one pound to a gallon of water, adding one or two ounces of carbolic acid.
Building contracts began specifying the provision of adequate cesspits for the privies at town houses, whether the latrines were built into the house or as an outhouse.
Dow (1955) reported trapping Blattella germanica, Periplaneta americana, and Periplaneta brunnea in houses and privies in south Texas.
The microhabitats of cockroaches in privies and sewers have not been studied.
This species has been trapped in significant numbers in privies and dwellings in Georgia (Haines and Palmer, 1955).
No more talking through the waste pipes; the new privies have standing water.
The smell of excrement fills the block, the cell privies overrun, and inundate the hall.
He claimed that the foul straw upon which the soldiers slept became infectious, but maintained that the chief source of infection were the privies "after they had received the dysenteric excrements of those who first sicken.
This is especially true of water impregnated with soakage from privies and sewers; and yet epidemics of diarrhoea cannot as often be clearly traced to this source as can outbreaks of typhoid fever.
In the country the open privies and wells need frequent clearing out.
Night cart, a cart used to remove the contents ofprivies by night.
Defn: One whose business is emptying privies by night.
The city of Syracuse has installed on the watershed of Skaneateles Lake a most admirable system of collection of privy wastes, and the lake water is thoroughly protected, although there are several hundred privies on the watershed.
In view of the imminent danger always possible wherever human wastes are directly discharged into streams, whether from privies or sewers, it is obvious that water so contaminated should never on any account be used as drinking water.
They are born in filth and they delight in living in filth, and if privies and cesspools and manure piles and garbage piles could be shut out from flies, the fly pestilence would be at an end.
In such a village the water-supply usually comes from wells, and the wastes of the household are discharged into privies and cesspools.
The privies of the houses in our terrace were built in pairs, the garden wall divided them and partly the cess-pool which was common to the two.
Those privies were close together, and separate, there were but two of them.
Sulphureted hydrogen gas is the deleterious agent exhaled from privies or vaults, which have been so fatal, at times, to night men, who have been employed to remove or cleanse them.
Two octagonal privies are provided--one for each sex--each of which has seven apartments.
There are, however, but few instances where play-grounds are attached, and their condition as to privies is very bad.
Let all the privies have ventilation [by shafts] in the thickness of the walls, so as to exhale by the roofs.
The privies must be numerous and going one into the other in order that the stench may not penetrate into the dwellings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "privies" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
