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
Outside New Delhi, where one Indian critic relegated it to "the dunghill of propaganda," Maxwell's assessment is widely accepted.
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
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 Israel Zangwill
