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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

One night in France, Joe Patterson and his cousin, both A.E.F. officers, sat down on a farmyard dunghill for a heart-to-heart chat.

From Time Magazine Archive

Ah! yes, you are on my barrels now; last time I saw you, you were on your own dunghill.

From Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)