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

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

There he was," said a bitter rival, "crowing like a cock upon his own dunghill.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thy Hippocren� comes with a fair face, Finely unworthy of its father base; Of a foul fountain so serene a daughter: From dunghill, who would dream such crystal water?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard