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
O Earth, take charge of this maggot of the dunghill who, for a brief space, inhabited our sphere of life.
From Time Magazine Archive
The visual arts flourished there like lilies on a dunghill.
From Time Magazine Archive
A muxy is a dunghill, and the pucksy a quagmire.
From Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales A Sequel to the Nursery Rhymes of England by Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard)
