But you quaint little people with your bonnets and breeches, your horse buggies, your archaic dialect and your earth-closet privies, you enrich our lives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God Delusion]

It was a slate-roofed, long, low building covered with white-washed rough-cast and it had a stone wall along one side of its yard with a gap in it to give access to a small building of quarried stone which was half woodshed and half earth-closet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Murder of Busy Lizzie]

The inventor of the earth-closet, Rev.Mr. Moule, says.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

The earth-closet was invented by the Rev. Henry Moule, vicar of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Village Improvements and Farm Villages] Reference

The earth-closet is the invention of the Rev. Henry Moule, of Fordington.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

A description of the earth-closet will be given in another chapter relating to tenement-houses for the poor in large cities.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

Concerning the value and use of the product of the earth-closet, the following is copied from the London company's circular.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

It is clear from these facts that any earth-closet manure a farmer would be likely to purchase in the city has not a very high value.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talks on Manures A Series of Familiar and Practical Talks Between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor, and other Neighbors, on the Whole Subject] Reference

The principle on which the earth-closet is based is as free to all as is the earth itself, and any person may adopt his own method of applying it.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

As was the case with the other paths, it will be greatly to his advantage to stake it out and remove about four inches of the surface-soil, piling it near the stable to be used for composting purposes or in the earth-closet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Home Acre] Reference

I have recently concluded an experiment of six years 'duration, the result of which seems to show that this objection to the adoption of the earth-closet system may be set aside, or at least reduced to such proportions as to make it unimportant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Village Improvements and Farm Villages] Reference

Extended experience in small villages and public institutions seems to confirm his view, that, if the earth-closet is to be adopted by towns, they cannot depend either on farmers buying the manure, or undertaking the labor of supplying and removing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Village Improvements and Farm Villages] Reference

The public reports of sanitary officers in England, who have investigated the subject to its foundation, fully confirm every thing that has been claimed by the advocates of the earth-closet, unless perhaps in connection with the incidental question of the value of the product as a manure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Village Improvements and Farm Villages] Reference

The earth-closet is an invention which relieves the most disagreeable item in domestic labor, and prevents the disagreeable and unhealthful effluvium which is almost inevitable in all family residences, The general principle of construction is somewhat like that of a water-closet, except that in place of water is used dried earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

The expense of its construction and use is no greater than that of the common water-closet; indeed, when the outlays for plumber's work, the almost inevitable troubles and disorders of water-pipes in a house, and the constant stream of petty repairs consequent upon careless construction or use of water-works are considered, the earth-closet is in itself much cheaper, besides being an accumulator of valuable matter.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

"The first requirement for the proper working of the earth-closet is earth perfectly dry and sifted.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

"I have in constant use in a room in my house an earth-closet commode; and even when the pan is entirely full, with the accumulation of a week's use, visitors examining it invariably say, with some surprise.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference

Deodorization and preservation of excrementitious matter -- The earth-closet -- Waring's pamphlet -- The agricultural argument -- Necessity of returning to the soil the elements taken from it -- earth-closet based on power of clay and inorganic matter to absorb and retain odors and fertilizing matter -- Its construction -- Mode of use -- The ordinary privy -- The commode or portable house-privy -- Especial directions: things to be observed -- Repeated use of earth -- Other advantages -- Sick-rooms -- House-labor -- Cleanliness -- Economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Woman's Home] Reference