nightsoil

• Even nightsoil was saved and collected-tannery 'prentices came 'round to collect urine every morning, paying two clipped-pennybits a pot, and the rest went straight into back-garden compost heaps. —  Take A Thief
• The desirable ratio of 30 can sometimes be obtained by judicious mixing of incoming waste, for example by adjusting the proportions of nightsoil or sludge and vegetable waste. —  Chapter 9
• - nightsoil, including that collected by municipal systems or private contractors, and the nightsoil of individual households or groups of households and used on their own gardens or farms; —  Chapter 9
• "You little sack of nightsoil, you haven't been worth a rat's ass since you were a maggot. —  Villains by Necessity
• The carbon: nitrogen ratio of nightsoil is about —  Chapter 9

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