refuse heap
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This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth’s inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains.
From Time • Jun. 25, 2012
This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth�s inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains.
From Time • Mar. 4, 2011
This is Los Angeles in the year 2019, when most of the earth's inhabitants have colonized other planets, and only a polyglot refuse heap of humanity remains.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the cave floor what looked to me like nothing in particular turned out to be an ancient midden: a refuse heap.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
And I confess I never see the thing we call vice but I wonder did it not spring from the burning of the refuse heap, which poor humans have mistaken for altar fires?
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
