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... edifice of our modern civilization upon the fundament of wisdom that had been built at great pains by the people of ...

— Ancient Man - The Beginning of Civilizations • Hendrik Willem Van Loon

... shameful usage, treating them as females, or androgynes, and doing unspeakable acts. To such a pitch of pollution has the multitude throughout the whole people come!" Another sure indication of the prevalence of the vice of sodomy is to be found in Juvenal, Sat. ii, 12-13, "but your fundament is smooth and the swollen haemorrhoids are incised, the surgeon grinning the while," just as the physician of the nineties grinned when some young fool came to him with a blennorrhoeal infection! The ancient jest which accounts for the shaving of the priest's crown ...

— The Satyricon, Complete • Petronius Arbiter

... two or three years old and upwards, a Candle suppository is better than a Soap suppository. The way of preparing it is as follows:—Cut a piece of dip-tallow candle—the length of three inches—and insert it as you would a clyster pipe, about two inches up the fundament, allowing the remaining inch to be in sight, and there let the suppository remain ...

— Advice to a Mother on the Management of her Children • Pye Henry Chavasse

... follows:—They first strangled the hog, which was done by three men; the hog being placed on his back, two of them laid a pretty strong stick across his throat, and pressed with all their might on each end; the third man held his hind legs, kept him on his back, and plugged up his fundament with grass, I suppose to prevent any air from passing or repassing that way. In this manner they held him for about ten minutes before he was quite dead. In the mean time, some hands were employed in making ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 14 • Robert Kerr