foul matter
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Like abandoned roads that soon become filled with weeds and rubbish, unused nostrils become filled with impurities and foul matter.
From The Hindu-Yogi Science Of Breath by William Walker Atkinson
Filth, filth, n. foul matter: anything that defiles, physically or morally.—adv.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
All the drains of the town flow into the waters of the harbor, which has not sufficient flow of tide to carry seaward the foul matter thus accumulated.
From Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America by Maturin Murray Ballou
Much of this foul matter is washed by rains into their tanks and pools of water, which they use indiscriminately for washing, cooking, and drinking purposes.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 by Various
In "Hamlet" Shakespeare let out some of the foul matter which Herbert's mean betrayal had bred in him.
From The Man Shakespeare by Frank Harris
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