filth

• Sarcoptes hominis is eminently a creature of filth, and is primarily a scavenger living on the dead and cast-off products of the skin. —  The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals
• The effect of bad air, filth, and bad food is shown by the fact that the death-rate among these classes, between the ages of twenty and forty, is five times that of the general population of the same age. —  Pushing to the Front
• As this disorder proceeds chiefly from their gluttony and filth, and hot drinking of potale and slop; to remedy which, it would be commendable to feed on cold potale, or scarcely milk warm, to keep them clean, to mix salt occasionally with the potale--tar their trough once a month, and give them a little ground antimony In fattening hogs I have known them improve rapidly, after eating the warm ashes from a fresh burned brush heap. —  The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, ;c.; ;c.; of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States
• A very fat man, Doctor Merchant, inclined to be fussy about little things but magnificent in big things, and thoroughly imbued with the idea that his work of protecting the natives against their own sloth and filth was the only interesting problem in the universe. —  Terry A Tale of the Hill People
• You've sold your life and your innocence for filth--d'you suppose it's all to buy? —  Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories

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