dunghill

Example Sentences

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He once described himself to one of his children as “a machine condemned to devour books and then throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.”

From The New Yorker • Oct. 3, 2016

Jefferson said the work was like extracting diamonds from a dunghill.

From Salon • May 31, 2012

On a dunghill back of a farmhouse at Mareuil-en-D�1e, the cousins held the famous conversation that sired the fabulous New York Daily News.

From Time Magazine Archive

Voltaire may have summed up his era's widespread judgment on the Bard: "A few pearls on a dunghill."

From Time Magazine Archive

Our right flank rested upon a dunghill, or, rather, a kitchen midden, a public store of all manner of beastliness and the playground of the little schoolboys.

From A Prisoner in Turkey by Still, John