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 he was," said a bitter rival, "crowing like a cock upon his own dunghill.
From Time Magazine Archive
One night in France, Joe Patterson and his cousin, both A.E.F. officers, sat down on a farmyard dunghill for a heart-to-heart chat.
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 Richard B. Westbrook
