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

Voltaire may have summed up his era's widespread judgment on the Bard: "A few pearls on a 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

My horses ready, my men waiting, my boy dying for want of me, and myself dead in a dunghill.

From The Blind Mother and The Last Confession by Caine, Hall, Sir