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

At last, when his younger brother married and the whole village reveled round him, Grisha under his dunghill cursed the day when cowardice induced him to be buried alive.

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

But on their own dunghill they have none to overcrow them.

From Frontier Folk by Booth, George