What is "excrement"

Usage examples of "excrement".

That autocratic piece of excrement, Varus, was not about to tell me anything, so I thank you for all this news.

For those who are not up on the vernacular of a prior generation, I should explain that a blivet is a five-pound container with ten pounds of excrement.

Besides, our bodies are ugly, misproportioned, full of boils, fever and excrement.

The low ceilings, the distant drip of water, and the mushroomy smell of mold and excrement gave it all away.

There are many cases of constipation on record lasting longer than this, but none with the same periodicity and without change in the excrement.

Bitterly, she faced the future, seeing in this jubilant reflorescence only the revenge of the bugs, mould and excrement of her slum upbringing which she had been trying to expunge all her life.

Tiber rose just enough to ensure that some of the public latrines backfilled and floated excrement out of their doors, a vegetable shortage developed when the Campus Martius and the Campus Vaticanus were covered with a few inches of water, and shoddily built high-rise insulae began to crumble into total collapse or suddenly manifested huge cracks in walls and foundations.

The old twigs and sticks and ancient feathers were covered and well soaked with the foulest of excrements.

Their murderous attacker had smeared excrement on the studs of his club.

Cohn, namely that when rather large crustaceans are caught between the closing lobes, they are pressed so hard whilst making their escape that they often void their sausageshaped masses of excrement, which were found within most of the leaves.

I had never been in a military post before and my chief recollection of it is the open latrines, with African soldiers squatting and jabbering, dung-brown beetles crawling in human excrement, and the wood smoke smell of cook fires hanging in the still air.

The sinks over the lower portions of the stream were imperfect in their plan and structure, and the excrements were in large measure deposited so near the borders of the stream as not to be washed away, or else accumulated upon the low boggy ground.

As the forces of the prisoners were reduced by confinement, want of exercise, improper diet, and by scurvy, diarrhea, and dysentery, they were unable to evacuate their bowels within the stream or along its banks, and the excrements were deposited at the very doors of their tents.

Nor does chlorophyll seem affected by the intestinal secretions of various animals, judging by the colour of their excrement.

The X-shaped wooden crosses were bare, with only stains of blood, urine and excrement to show that living beings had once hung from them in agony.