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dunghill

[duhng-hil] / ˈdʌŋˌhɪl /


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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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

I’m the dunghill cat—that is what I am.

From The Domestic Cat by Stables, Gordon