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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

Outside New Delhi, where one Indian critic relegated it to "the dunghill of propaganda," Maxwell's assessment is widely accepted.

From Time Magazine Archive

The visual arts flourished there like lilies on a dunghill.

From Time Magazine Archive

One of the gardeners finding him dead threw him on the dunghill.

From Santal Folk Tales by Campbell, A.




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