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

At last, when his younger brother married and the whole village reveled round him, Grisha under his dunghill cursed the day when cowardice induced him to be buried alive.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was an old Roman senator who said: 'A cock crows best on his own dunghill.'

From Time Magazine Archive

A cock crows from somebody's dunghill; a skeleton dog prowls by for garbage.

From In Morocco by Wharton, Edith