"Faeces" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... this simple expedient I rid myself of at least three hundred weight of earth, and thus made room to continue my labours; yet, this being still insufficient, I had recourse to another artifice, which was to knead up the earth in the form of sausages, to resemble the human faeces: these I dried, and when the prisoner came to clean my dungeon, hastily tossed them into the night-table, and thus disencumbered myself of a pound or two more of earth each week. I further made little balls, and, when the sentinel was walking, blew them, through a paper tube, out of the ...
— The Life and Adventures of Baron Trenck - Vol. 1 (of 2) • Baron Trenck
... age. During the first year, however, she suffered greatly from pains in her head and abdomen, and, a common condition in hysteria—all four of her limbs were contracted. She passed neither urine nor faeces. Margaret, though only ten years old—hysteria develops the secretive faculties—played her part so well that, after being watched by the priest of the parish and Dr. Bucoldianus, she was considered free from all juggling, and was sent home ...
— Fasting Girls - Their Physiology and Pathology • William Alexander Hammond
... 'l-dami" lit. between faeces and menses, i.e., the foulest part of his mistress's person. It is not often that The Nights are "nasty"; but here is a ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... suffering from constipation, and undigested curds of milk appear in its faeces, and the child starts suddenly in its ...
— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols |
