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  • We continue our stroll through a maze of tiny ruelles, * walking where once sewage used to flow as freely as village gossip, when families emptied their chamber-pots into the narrow canal running down the now cobbled streets.

    Escapade 2010

  • We continue our stroll through a maze of tiny ruelles,* walking where once sewage used to flow as freely as village gossip, when families emptied their chamber-pots into the narrow canal running down the now cobbled streets.

    Escapade 2010

  • Or did she come to the loony bin to slop out the chamber-pots?

    Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008

  • In fact, they make the chains of their slaves criminals and their chamber-pots out of gold, to constantly remind themselves of its worthlessness.

    Utopia by Thomas More Karen Burnham 2008

  • We continue our stroll through a maze of tiny ruelles, * walking where once sewage used to flow as freely as village gossip, when families emptied their chamber-pots into the narrow canal running down the now cobbled streets.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • [10] It was always forbidden to bring chamber-pots into the banquet-hall, but the reason lay in their belief that the right way to keep body and brain from weakness was to avoid drinking in excess.

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • We continue our stroll through a maze of tiny ruelles, * walking where once sewage used to flow as freely as village gossip, when families emptied their chamber-pots into the narrow canal running down the now cobbled streets.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • We continue our stroll through a maze of tiny ruelles, * walking where once sewage used to flow as freely as village gossip, when families emptied their chamber-pots into the narrow canal running down the now cobbled streets.

    voisin - French Word-A-Day 2005

  • We continue our stroll through a maze of tiny ruelles,* walking where once sewage used to flow as freely as village gossip, when families emptied their chamber-pots into the narrow canal running down the now cobbled streets.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • We continue our stroll through a maze of tiny ruelles,* walking where once sewage used to flow as freely as village gossip, when families emptied their chamber-pots into the narrow canal running down the now cobbled streets.

    voisin - French Word-A-Day 2005

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