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 was an old Roman senator who said: 'A cock crows best on his own dunghill.'

From Time Magazine Archive

The visual arts flourished there like lilies on a dunghill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Many writers on Gnosticism seem to know no more than the cock on the dunghill knows of the jewels that lie before him.

From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Westbrook, Richard B.