Scattering flowers upon a cesspool of iniquity will not purify it.
I should be the first to be ready to clean out any cesspool you like.
The "cesspool question" had already been a subject of dispute between them.
When we pass a cesspool we close our noses and try not to breathe.
All the vice and misery of the country got thrown into that cesspool.
Are you there, oh dwellers in the cesspool of respectability?
His swans are not always immaculate, but they are not "swans of the cesspool," to quote Landor.
It does not come within our province to enter into details as to the best method of building a cesspool.
(c) The cesspool is still the chief reliance of the world at large.
Human nature to him is a cesspool of villainy and corruption.
