Examples from literature

• As flies are by no means particular in choosing either a place to feed or a place to defecate, often selecting meat or food for the purpose, a somewhat alarming vision of possible consequences is raised. 
• In well developed cases, the animal strains to defecate, and passes shreds of intestinal mucous along with blood-stained feces. 
• The natural instinct to defecate, like many other natural instincts, is usually deadened by failure to exercise it. 
• They always defecate upon the open ground, and will not use privies or latrines This is a matter of religious obligation with them. 
• Underneath the roof is an opening in the earth where the people defecate.