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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
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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
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Or did she come to the loony bin to slop out the chamber-pots?
Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008
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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
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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.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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[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
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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.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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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.
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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.
French Word-A-Day: 2005
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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.
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