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cesspool |
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cesspool or cesspit Noun a covered tank or pit for collecting and storing sewage or waste water [Old French souspirail air vent]
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Under such circumstances, I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained. I should be the first to be ready to clean out any cesspool you like. Their children were not as well as they had been at home; but how could they know that there was no sewer to their house, and that the drainage of fifteen years was in a cesspool under it? |
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