Sentence examples for outside privy from inspiring English sources
Her only literary background was a rural ancestor notorious for reading newspapers in an outside privy.
The next morning, he was discovered in the outside privy with his throat cut and a stab wound in his chest.
She recalls the days they spent there in the small wooden shack with candles and lamps, and just a hole in the ground as an outside privy.
Fifth, let's all take a moment to bathe in the glories of "even" William Holman Hunt, the most enjoyable lurid of the pre-Raphaelite painters, who depicted Jesus in his painting The Light of the World apparently in nocturnal search of the outside privy.
Yes I know King Minos of Crete had a flushing toilet of sorts more than two and a half thousand years before Thomas Crapper was born and the Carthaginians also had private bathrooms, but there are still people around today who remember the outside privy and the metal tub in front of the fire.
Now they could afford to record proper orchestras at Abbey Road rather than their sole violinist Dickon Hinchliffe in an outside privy, they gradually scraped away that layer of filth, poverty and cruelty that still keeps their debut among my five favourite albums of all time.
The flush toilet ended that, and no one — my friend's nan included — wants outside privies again.
Re-reading Carrie's War now, it is not just rationing, chilblains and outside privies that take on an anachronistic air.
The outside privies on the four streets were a luxury compared to the low stone-and-sod houses of Mayo, where an indoor toilet of any description was mostly unheard of in many of the villages.
Another model celebrates the outdoor privy.
As are Melvyn Bragg's seemingly interminable quartet of novels about a brilliant, working-class young man with an equally brilliant head of hair, who was forced to leave the small town of Wigtown in Cumbria, where horses and carts clip-clopped outside his privy, to fulfil his potential as one of the greatest broadcasters of his age.
