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

The multitude of Moab was as straw trodden down for the dunghill, and the high fort of the fire-monster was brought down and laid low and brought to the ground, even to the dust.

From Ghetto Tragedies by Zangwill, Israel