Sentence examples for cesspool into from inspiring English sources

"London: the great cesspool into which all kinds of criminals, agents and drifters are irresistibly drained," Sherlock muses.

Under such circumstances I naturally gravitated to London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

'London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained" was what Sherlock Holmes's companion, Dr Watson, thought of the capital.

At the beginning of "A Study in Scarlet", he describes the city as "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained".A century on, the attitudes expressed by Conan Doyle are self-evidently racist.

It will greatly discourage bullying and trolling, turning a cesspool into civil discussion.

The discovery, in 1854, that a cholera outbreak in London was caused by a cesspool leaking into a water pump contributed to the development of modern epidemiology and the modern municipal sewer.

Whitehead discovered that the first, or "index," case of the Soho cholera was a child living on Broad Street: her diapers had been rinsed in water that was then tipped into a cesspool in front of a house just a few feet away from the well.

Two people suffocated and several others were reportedly injured after a woman dropped her cell phone into a cesspool in Xinxiang City, Henan province, China.

But in February Duterte blasted the island's hotels, restaurants and other businesses, accusing them of dumping sewage directly into the sea and turning it into a "cesspool".

That said, my main impression from this case is how pervasive casual corruption has become in the financial world — how easy it was for Raj to turn law-abiding people into criminals, how thoughtlessly they slipped into the cesspool, as if so many other people were doing it, and it was considered so big a part of being successful, that the legal, let alone moral, hazards stopped mattering.

If you're like me and thinking of taking the plunge into Ashley Madison, I would advise wading into this cesspool very carefully.