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

The visual arts flourished there like lilies on a dunghill.

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

One of the gardeners finding him dead threw him on the dunghill.

From Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A.