Everything's ready outside, if the call's more serious, water, close-stool, and anything else you'll need. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Trimalchio retired to the close-stool, after this course, and we, having freedom of action with the tyrant away, began to draw the other guests out. ❋ Unknown (2007)
By which means it comes to pass, [83] that not only libraries and shops are full of our putrid papers, but every close-stool and jakes, ❋ Unknown (2007)
The two factions send to him a solemn deputation; and the dalai-lama begins, according to his divine custom, by distributing among them the contents of his close-stool. ❋ Unknown (2007)
He traces his itinerary in England - memorably tracking his movements "like an animal, by his droppings", thanks to purchases of cotton for Henry's close-stool, "to wipe the nether end" - and recounts his journeys to pagan Lithuania on crusade and to Jerusalem as a pilgrim with descriptive relish. ❋ Unknown (2007)
What clothes the senators did wear in Rome, what shoes, how they sat, where they went to the close-stool, how many dishes in a mess, what sauce, which for the present for an historian to relate, [733] according to Lodovic. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Macalpine made a soldierly retreat with two horses; but the captain was suddenly surrounded and disarmed by the footmen, whom a French valet de chambre headed in this exploit; his sword was passed through a close-stool, and his person through the horse-pond. ❋ Unknown (2004)
You will be scraped out of the painted cloth for this: your lion, that holds his poll-axe sitting on a close-stool, will be given to Ajax: he will be the ninth Worthy. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Vespasian died in a jest upon his close-stool — Galba with a sentence — Septimus Severus in a dispatch — Tiberius in dissimulation, and Caesar Augustus in a compliment. — ❋ Unknown (2003)
I have none of their arms anywhere but in this backside, near my close-stool. ❋ Unknown (2002)
One day the king, being on his close-stool, showed Villon the arms of France, and said to him, Dost thou see what respect I have for thy French kings? ❋ Unknown (2002)
For that reason they told us she never visited a close-stool but by proxy. ❋ Unknown (2002)
If any poor creature go to the stoves to illuminate his muzzle with a cowsherd or to buy winter-boots, and that the sergeants passing by, or those of the watch, happen to receive the decoction of a clyster or the fecal matter of a close-stool upon their rustling-wrangling-clutter-keeping masterships, should any because of that make bold to clip the shillings and testers and fry the wooden dishes? ❋ Unknown (2002)
She reappeared with the pot from under the close-stool. ❋ JEN HOLLING (2002)
