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

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

On a dunghill back of a farmhouse at Mareuil-en-D�1e, the cousins held the famous conversation that sired the fabulous New York Daily News.

From Time Magazine Archive

In a short time she saw Jhore emerge from the dunghill, in which he resided, and loose the calves, and take them to the water.

From Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A.