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
There he was," said a bitter rival, "crowing like a cock upon his own dunghill.
From Time Magazine Archive
O Earth, take charge of this maggot of the dunghill who, for a brief space, inhabited our sphere of life.
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 John Still
