10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLOACINAL»
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High as it is, its air seems putridly stagnant, and when a whiff comes from the
river it chokes you with coal-smoke, or nauseates you with cloacinal odours. But
listening to the trains thundering overhead, looking tii) and down the dirtv. smokv
...
Norman Macleod, Donald Macleod, 1870
2
The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal ...
... very fresh and good, are rather small. Breakfast over, the post-runner makes
his appearance, and letters and papers are eagerly secured. Then you retire to
your room to read and digest, with no long time to wait for a cloacinal episode.
3
Edinburgh dissected: in a series of letters to Roger Cutlar, ...
... pursuing his vocation, with the mercury only a little above zero ; or with that of
the cloacinal nightman, who is obliged, at unearthly hours, and with pestilence
raging around him, to pursue his sickening occupation ; or with that of many
others ...
"New York, like London," wrote Thomas Jefferson in 1823, "seems to be a
cloacina of all the depravities of human nature." 1 find no such word as cloacina
in my unabridged dictionary, but cloacinal equals cloacal. and a cloaca is a
sewer.
5
Population Malthus: His Life and Times
In addition to the row of twelve water-closets alongside the coal-yard, each
professor had one in his residence, as well as a privy in his garden; the Directors
were often occupied with matters cloacinal, and there are repeated edicts against
the ...
6
The Covent Garden Magazine Or the Amorous Repository: ...
Pleaded her causa so well, in assuring him that her absence, however
suspicious it might appear, yet it was from a natural cause, being obliged to
attend at the temple of Cloacinal ; the excuse was admitted, and what his friends
advanced ...
7
Conversations with Robert Graves
On Pope: "A sedulous ape. " On Shelley: "Voice is too shrill. " On Wordsworth: "
He disowned and betrayed his Muse." On Pound: "Cloacinal ranting, snook-
cocking, psuedo-professional jargon. " On Dylan Thomas: "He gave his radio
audience ...
Robert Graves, Frank L. Kersnowski, 1989
8
Straws and Prayer-Books
These thimble-rigging and cloacinal jeux d'esprit De Coster, to be sure, has for
the most part omitted, with here and there just a bland indication. For another
matter, although Tyl is devotedly attached to the fair Nele, and their marriage at
the ...
James Branch Cabell, 2003
9
Romans in a New World: Classical Models in Sixteenth-century ...
Las Casas, Apologetica historia, chap. 86, Obras completas, 7:706. 67. Ibid.,
chap. 103, Obras completas, 7:8o1. 68. Ibid., Obras completas, 7:803 (Pertunda
and Cloacinal; chap. 1 17, Obras completas, 7:855 ("insensibilitad de ignorancia"
l.
10
The Biblical Repertory and Princeton Review
... exdept one, and this one happened to have escaped suspicion, simply
because it lay through a succession of no less than seventeen cloacinal temples.
Through all their mephitic morasses these miserable yet loyal young fags had to
thread ...
Charles Hodge, Lyman Hotchkiss Atwater, 1866
