feculent

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The problems created by that many birds, fresh back from a day of feeding, is feculent.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2018

Here, in a pit with indefinite doom on it, Here, in the fumes of a feculent moat, Under an alp with inscrutable gloom on it, Squats the wild witch with a ghoul at her throat!

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry

Within the last three or four years, considerable quantities of a feculent substance, called Tous les mois, have been imported from the West Indies.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

If they do not operate appreciably in changing the general character of the feculent mass, at least they rescue from it many who in the great day of account will call their authors blessed.

From Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various

Such an "ad." would forever damn even the Nashville Banner, or show in the feculent columns of the Kansas City Star like a splotch of soot on the marble face of Raphael's Madonna.

From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper