night soil

"I think you have night soil where your wits should be.

The stink of its night soil came sharp on the breeze.

"And then he'd sell it back to ye for night soil!"

"The night soil of the ville is flushed into the river."

Modern Japan still has areas with ongoing night soil collection and disposal.

"After another two feet they reached the night soil, which was similar to a black gooey mud."

Usually this occurs during the night, giving the night soil its name.

I became accustomed to the smell of night soil.

Each dawn she buried her night soil even though most villages had working sewer systems.

Garbage and night soils ended up there every morning.

Song farmers emphasized the importance of night soil as fertilizer.

Night soil should never be used as a fertilizer because it could contain any number of parasites.

At the depot, the night soil was emptied into a storage tank.

Initially, night soil was collected by contractors, but after 1873 the local authority became responsible.

With or without night soil deposits remaining down below there is no longer any offensive odor.

People responsible for the disposal of night soil are considered untouchables in India.

The fresh stench of night soil in the bushes.

Other hard or demeaning jobs included being night soil cleaners and dock workers.

This may have contributed to the "soil" part of the term night soil.

Fit only to wash clothes or collect night soil.

I remember at 2 o'clock in the morning, ox carts would come into the city and take out what they called the "night soil."

Our greatest industry, though, is the night soil that we gather from the cooperative of people of the town.

The smell of some fresh night soil which had been cast from the windows high above assaulted his nostrils.

Small items of household rubbish were often added to the 'night soil'.

She plunged into the dark of the alleyway after him, into the mud and the night soil.