Every time someone uses the toilet, he should pour or sprinkle into it a small amount of regular household disinfectant, such as creosol or chlorine bleach, to keep down odors and germs. From Wordnik.com. [In Time of Emergency A Citizen's Handbook on Nuclear Attack, Natural Disasters (1968)] Reference
It is a fortnight to-morrow since we mobilised, and we have had no work yet except our own fatigue duty in the Convent; it was our turn this morning, and I scrubbed the lavatories out with creosol. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915] Reference
Though we lay no claims to perfection -- or anything like it -- few trenches were cleaner than ours were, and right to the very end of the war we never left a trench or billet without it being cleaner and more "lime and creosol" - ated than when we entered it. From Wordnik.com. [The Fife and Forfar Yeomanry and 14th (F. & F. Yeo.) Battn. R.H. 1914-1919] Reference
Is there to be nothing left but silence and a shadow or a specimen in a dusty case of glass preserved in creosol and stuffed with lime?. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-25] Reference
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