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

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

Then there is what Williams calls "the dunghill speech," a not-for-the-squeamish passage in which Shannon relates to Hannah how he once saw the natives of an unnamed country scavenge a dung heap for undigested food.

From Time Magazine Archive

You threw it away, and I picked it up off the dunghill.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary