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
Outside New Delhi, where one Indian critic relegated it to "the dunghill of propaganda," Maxwell's assessment is widely accepted.
From Time Magazine Archive
O Earth, take charge of this maggot of the dunghill who, for a brief space, inhabited our sphere of life.
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 Sir Hall Caine
