"Excremental" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... scream a hundred harpies fell! A hundred demons shriek with hideous yell! From where, in mortal venom dipt on high, Full-drawn the deadliest shafts of satire fly; Where Churchill brandishes his clumsy club, And Wilkes unloads his excremental tub, Down to where Entick, awkward and unclean, Crawls on his native dust, a worm obscene! While with unnumber'd wings from van to rear 220 Myriads of nameless buzzing drones appear: From their dark cells ...
— The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer - With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes • Rev. George Gilfillan [Ed.]
... present in the water may comprise not only varieties which have their normal habitat in the water and will consequently develop at 20 deg. C., but also if the water has been contaminated with excremental matter, varieties which have been derived from, or are pathogenic for, the animal body, and which will only develop well at a temperature of 37 deg. C. In order to demonstrate the presence of each of these classes it will be necessary ...
— The Elements of Bacteriological Technique • John William Henry Eyre
... may exist outside the body. It is highly probable, judging from the results of experiments, that every collection of putrescible matter is potentially a productive focus of microbes. The thought, of a pit or sewer filled with excremental matters mixed with water, seething and bubbling in its dark warm atmosphere, and communicating directly (with or without the intervention of that treacherous machine called a trap) with a house, is enough to make one shudder, and the long bills of mortality already chargeable to this arrangement ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887 • Various
... commencing separation in boyhood, and the struggle of equilibrium in youth: thence onward the body is first simply indifferent; then demanding the translucency of the mind not to be worse than indifferent; and finally all that presents the body as body becoming almost of an excremental nature. ...
— Literary Remains (1) • Coleridge |
