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
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
