dunghill

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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

There he was," said a bitter rival, "crowing like a cock upon his own dunghill.

From Time Magazine Archive

The year of Reinhardt's arrival in Berlin was a period of intense realism in the Teutonic theatre, when every dunghill and sweat bead in the dialogue found its concrete embodiment on the stage.

From Time Magazine Archive

At high noon he was waked by Gerard moving, and found him sitting up with the straw smoking round him like a dunghill.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles