How did they ever manage the feculence that accrued during the voyage. From Wordnik.com. [What a load] Reference
Few others could have pulled off turning our feculence into fascination. From Wordnik.com. [Garbage Land: Summary and book reviews of Garbage Land by Elizabeth Royte.] Reference
"The only one I wish to mock is thee, thou miserable excuse for feculence!". From Wordnik.com. [Unicorn Point]
So, donate today or I will have to start buying commercial remedies to absorb feline feculence. From Wordnik.com. [Thrusting in the Diocese of Niagara « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
A city that has as much opulence as it does feculence, there are over 1250 miles of underground sewage piping in Paris. From Wordnik.com. [The More Putrid Side of Paris] Reference
I'm so pleased to report the well written script sent me scuttling to the dictionary several times with vocabulary-above-a-ninth grade-level, like scutes, limn and I love saying this word feculence. From Wordnik.com. [Filmstalker: Clash of the Titans script review] Reference
During the last 50 years the ACoC has worked diligently at generating and distributing sewage: feculence falls from on high to be shovelled and distributed evenly by diligent parish priests and wardens. From Wordnik.com. [The Anglican Church of Canada tackles sewage « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
The Rev. Ian Dingwall is an acolyte in the peddling of meaningless drivel masquerading as Christianity; the medium is the Niagara Anglican paper, the audience is almost all gone and the message is a swirling feculence making its way down the plug-hole of eternity. From Wordnik.com. [2009 November « Anglican Samizdat] Reference
And the value of feculence strengthen'd the state!. From Wordnik.com. [The pin-basket to the children of Thespis. With notes historical, critical, and biographical] Reference
For twenty fummers ripening by my fide All feculence of falfehood long thrown down. From Wordnik.com. [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference
A cloud, looked at as a cloud only, is no more a subject for painting than so much feculence in dirty water. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871] Reference
The faults of a parent can seldom be so dammed up as to leave no taint in the stream, or feculence on the shores. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor] Reference
It is not amiss that some feculence lie thick upon the Ale, and work not all out; for that will keep in the spirits. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
And sordid sweets, from feculence and froth Of ties terrestrial, set at large, she mounts To Reason's region, her own element. From Wordnik.com. [The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author] Reference
Read any discussion in a mainstream publication on these issues and the feculence bubbles and festers like a witches 'cauldron. From Wordnik.com. [Libertarian Blog Place] Reference
Like nose-picking and a preoccupation with feculence, the inability to sit still for long periods is a defining characteristic of childhood. From Wordnik.com. [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference
So much legislation swills through the cisterns of the General Assembly that a certain amount of feculence is bound to spill out into the streets before anyone notices. From Wordnik.com. [News for Richmond Times-Dispatch] Reference
The only difference between you is, that you are a little more prudent than he is, in your choice of times and places of relieving your hearts from this moral feculence. From Wordnik.com. [Master William Mitten: or, A Youth of Brilliant Talents, Who Was Ruined by Bad Luck] Reference
In mixing up the sparkling julep, that by its potent operation was to scour away the dregs and feculence and peccant humours of the body politic, he seemed to stand with his back to the drawers in a metaphysical dispensary, and to take out of them whatever ingredients suited his purpose. From Wordnik.com. [The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits] Reference
The State to which I belong, must "perform a lustration" -- must purge and purify herself from the feculence of civil slavery, and emulate the States of the North in their zeal for throwing down the gloomy idol which we are said to worship, before her senators can have any title to appear in this high assembly. From Wordnik.com. [American Eloquence, Volume 2 Studies In American Political History (1896)] Reference
A few American newspapers and magazines of the genus mugwump, enemies of Cuban liberty and apologists for the Weylerian butcheries and brutalities, are now busily engaged in belittling those who enabled Señorita Cisneros to escape from her captors, are heaping their feculence upon Mesdames Jefferson Davis, Jno. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10] Reference
Two plus hours of airborne feculence. From Wordnik.com. [Lionel: Olfactory Terror at 36K Feet] Reference
"It is the fact of experience, that Slavery is essentially demoralizing, and that it compounds into the character all the faithlessness and feculence of moral turpitude. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson Armistead, 1819?-1868. A Tribute for the Negro: Being a Vindication of the Moral, Intellectual, and Religious Capabilities of the Colored Portion of Mankind; with Particular Reference to the African Race.] Reference
In the study of mankind much will be found to swim as froth, and much must sink as feculence, before the wine can have its effect, and become that noblest liquor which rejoices the heart, and gives vigour to the imagination. ". From Wordnik.com. [Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson] Reference
All feculence of falsehood long thrown down. From Wordnik.com. [The complaint; or Night thoughts on life, death, and immortality. With the life of the author] Reference
At the same time you begin to dissolve the honey in this parcel, you take the other of thirty Gallons also warm, and Tun it up with barm, and put it into a vessel capable to hold all the whole quantity of Ale and Honey, and let it work there; and because the vessel will be so far from being full, that the gross foulness of the Ale cannot work over, make holes in the sides of the Barrel even with the superficies of the Liquor in it, out of which the gross feculence may purge; and these holes must be fast shut, when you put in the rest of the Ale with the Honey: which you must do, when you see the strong working of the other is over; and that it works but gently, which may be after two or three or four days, according to the warmth of the season. From Wordnik.com. [The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened] Reference
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