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
Voltaire may have summed up his era's widespread judgment on the Bard: "A few pearls on a dunghill."
From Time Magazine Archive
The visual arts flourished there like lilies on a dunghill.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old buffaloe cow led them to the dunghill, and said, “He is in here.”
From Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
