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

O Earth, take charge of this maggot of the dunghill who, for a brief space, inhabited our sphere of life.

From Time Magazine Archive

On a dunghill back of a farmhouse at Mareuil-en-D�1e, the cousins held the famous conversation that sired the fabulous New York Daily News.

From Time Magazine Archive

A brisk young Cock, in company with two or three pullets, his mistresses, raking upon a dunghill for something to entertain them with, happened to scratch up a Jewel.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop