Cess Pit

There's seems little point in working our way through the whole sorry mess of manure, shovelling it out spadeful by spadeful, not when the whole construction is built on poisoned earth over a cess-pit of raw sewage. ❋ Hal Duncan (2009)

My thoughts and prayers are with the brave men and women in the IDF who as I write this risk life and limb de-infesting the cess-pit of Gaza. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It is a cess-it, albeit an extremely popular cess-pit, always ready to pounce on the latest scandal and spread much muck, along with the all to rare smidgeon of truth. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It is not just me, not just here of course, the world of the internet comment is a cess-pit. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some historians claim that by a cunning sleight-of-hand, the Scots actually handed Edward the cess-pit cover from Scone Castle rather than the real Stone (which if true, means that a long succession of English and British monarchs have been crowned while atop a medieval toilet-seat lid!). ❋ Miss-k2 (2006)

[87] This may mean that they dropped themselves into the cess-pit and made their way out through another opening. ❋ Arthur L. Hayward (N/A)

"An 'the same is a cess-pit," said Mulvaney, piously. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

'An' the same is a cess-pit, 'said Mulvaney piously. ❋ Rudyard Kipling (1900)

Buried in frenzied haste by amateur, imperilled grave-diggers with a military purpose, these dead men decayed at leisure amid the scrap-heap, the cess-pit, the infernal squalor which once had been a neat, clean, scientific German earthwork, and which still earlier had been part of a fair countryside. ❋ Arnold Bennett (1899)

That same evening two of them went to work at cleaning out a cess-pit, two others spent the evening in their gardens, another had cows to milk, and the sixth, being out of work and restless, had no occupation to go home to so far as I know. ❋ George Sturt (1895)

It enables the animal to bend and turn when the contents of the cess-pit are needed for a fresh course of masonry. ❋ Jean-Henri Fabre (1869)

Your country has become a cess-pit of corruption and violence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The diseased moral values of the Liberal-dominated entertainments industry are manifested all too clearly in many of the products of that industry - motion pictures and television programmes that offer no edification or instruction to the viewer, but plumb a cess-pit of license and depravity. ❋ EMorris (2010)

Oh man, [what have you] [eaten]? That [cess pit] is nasty. ❋ Robin (2005)