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Jefferson said the work was like extracting diamonds from a dunghill. What gets declassified? 2012-05-31T21:09:00Z
No question: If Barack Obama repeated Jefferson’s words, conservative Republicans would leap to their feet and the dunghill would hit the fan. Thomas Jefferson vs. the Bible: What America’s founding father really thought about religion 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z
When French soldiers were stranded outside Rome one winter in the 16th century, they lay on the city's dunghills to soak up warmth from the fermenting matter. It's rubbish all right. But is it art? 2011-08-04T12:25:47Z
Hamlet says such slightly off-kilter lines as “To be or not to be, I there’s the point” and “What a dunghill idiot slave am I!” Hamlet’s ‘bad’ self and Kafka’s bug, on compact stages 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z
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.” Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z
With the same view, any sort of garbage or offal may be thrown out, if the dunghill is so situated—as it always should be—that its exhalations will not prove an annoyance. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z
Nature is by no means all dunghill or reptile-haunted swamp, or even common kitchen; she has also her seas and mountains, and skies, her fields and woods, and even her sunny gardens and dainty parlors. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z
These fellows, that I'm in pursuit of, have run from their ships; if our navy's unmann'd, what becomes of you and your house, you dunghill cormorant? Wild Oats or, The Strolling Gentlemen 2012-03-08T03:00:09.310Z
At high noon he was waked by Gerard moving, and found him sitting up with the straw smoking round him like a dunghill. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z
The friends of that much-tried individual on a dunghill, whom Christians had been heard to prate about, were no more exasperating. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z
It was a hideous little street of dead wall, stables, and dunghills, with lofts over coach-houses inhabited by coachmen’s families, who had a passion for drying clothes, and decorating their window-sills with miniature turnpike-gates.  Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z
They are very quiet, walk slowly, scratch but little, do not fly, are very tame, ramble but little, and prefer seeking their food on the dunghill in the poultry-yard to wandering afar off. Poultry A Practical Guide to the Choice, Breeding, Rearing, and Management of all Descriptions of Fowls, Turkeys, Guinea-fowls, Ducks, and Geese, for Profit and Exhibition. 2012-01-19T03:00:19.390Z
Thy Hippocren� comes with a fair face, Finely unworthy of its father base; Of a foul fountain so serene a daughter: From dunghill, who would dream such crystal water? The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z
A zealous friar dug it up and flung it on a dunghill, saying that no Ghibelline should be permitted to lie in consecrated ground. The Story of Assisi 2012-01-14T03:00:18.710Z
On their first arrival they generally feed on grass-seeds, and are fond of frequenting dunghills. A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations 2011-12-26T03:00:13.520Z
The bones that were thrown upon the dunghill are now crushed. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z
Ah! yes, you are on my barrels now; last time I saw you, you were on your own dunghill. Where There is Nothing Being Volume I of Plays for an Irish Theatre 2011-12-21T03:00:25.100Z
Ye are hens trembling with fear on your dunghill. The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2) And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere 2011-12-10T03:00:17.800Z
You threw it away, and I picked it up off the dunghill. Notwithstanding 2011-10-19T02:00:22.340Z
The very flower that we stoop to smell Grows from a dunghill, look but in its roots, And what obscene and hideous blind life Goes teeming; sickened then we shrink aback From rose's velvet petals. The Deluge and Other Poems 2011-10-15T02:00:29.350Z
My poor friend must yield; before my eyes he was miserably struck to death, insulted, and at last thrown on a dunghill! The Prose Writings of Heinrich Heine 2011-09-21T02:00:27.670Z
But I’m not proud; I’m only the poor dunghill cat, that all the dogs chase, that all the little boys stone, and Bridget shakes the broom at. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z
Very dull indeed was poor Tyro on the following day, but when the same evening he found Maggie’s head and neck heartlessly exposed on the dunghill, his grief knew no bounds. Aileen Aroon, A Memoir With other Tales of Faithful Friends and Favourites 2011-09-08T02:00:20.773Z
But on their own dunghill they have none to overcrow them. Frontier Folk 2011-08-19T02:00:11.653Z
Then will His name be sanctified in all the earth, when in wondrous grace He lifts His nation from the dunghill of shame and want and brings them back to their own land. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z
And then down came Job flat on the dunghill. Pleasure & Profit in Bible Study 2011-07-09T02:00:14.273Z
Now, madam, you know I’m only a cat, a common dunghill cat, and have only common dunghill notions, but here are my sentiments. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z
He went across a dunghill to the stable door, upon which a large cross was marked in chalk by way of safeguard. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 1 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:29.790Z
Hamlet, left alone, bursts into the soliloquy, 210 “Why what a dunghill idiot slave am I!” Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z
“It wastes me more Than were’t my picture fashioned out of wax, Stuck with a magic needle, and then buried In some foul dunghill.” The White Hecatomb And other Stories 2011-06-15T02:00:22.103Z
Our right flank rested upon a dunghill, or, rather, a kitchen midden, a public store of all manner of beastliness and the playground of the little schoolboys. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z
I’m the dunghill cat—that is what I am. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z
Here they do nothing of the kind, and there is not a street that has a decent pavement nor a corner that is not a dunghill Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z
Mr. Tytler, it appears, slowly rose in his bag as high as a garden wall, when something went wrong with the machinery, and he was deposited head foremost “softly on an adjoining dunghill.” Literary Byways 2011-05-12T02:00:09.493Z
How comes it to pass that either Norman or Dane, or even the tricky Scot, come when they list to crow on the Saxons' dunghill? The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z
Love of mischief—hatred of mankind; and to lower thy pride, knowing from what dunghill thou wert sprung. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z
But don’t you despise me because I am only a poor dunghill cat. The Domestic Cat 2011-09-08T02:00:21.853Z
Seeing his wealth, and fearing the jealousy of her other lover, she contrived the death of the chief of the artisans, and concealed his body under a dunghill. The Gospel of Buddha Compiled from Ancient Records by Paul Carus 2011-04-19T02:00:18.493Z
Perhaps if reproached with plagiarism, their authors would have made the same answer as Vergil, that they had but picked out the pearls from the dunghill of their predecessors. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z
It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. Walks and Words of Jesus A Paragraph Harmony of the Four Evangelists 2011-03-26T02:00:17.857Z
Gramps had a half-dozen turkeys, as many geese, a few ducks and a large flock of mongrel chickens that ranged from fussy little bantams to huge dunghill roosters. The Black Fawn 2011-03-07T03:00:09.513Z
My horses ready, my men waiting, my boy dying for want of me, and myself dead in a dunghill. The Blind Mother and The Last Confession 2011-02-03T03:00:11.867Z
Ditches were the channels for carrying off refuse; and as supplements to these imperfect methods of cleansing a great city, there were public dunghills. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z
The multitude of Moab was as straw trodden down for the dunghill, and the high fort of the fire-monster was brought down and laid low and brought to the ground, even to the dust. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z
In a short time she saw Jhore emerge from the dunghill, in which he resided, and loose the calves, and take them to the water. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z
One day," our old friend told us, "little Mimi picked up from the dunghill a lump of sugar an officer's servant had thrown to the dog. Six Women and the Invasion 2011-01-18T03:00:13.193Z
There is a yard, with stables to the left, and a glass-house and a hen-roost to the right, without mentioning the grand dunghill which covers more than one half of the stables. The Village Notary 2011-01-03T03:00:57.863Z
After giving a turn about the house, she went to look for her fish, and found them thrown out upon the dunghill. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z
For in this mountain shall the hand of the Lord rest, and Moab shall be trodden down under Him, even as straw is trodden down for the dunghill. Ghetto Tragedies 2011-01-27T03:00:46.507Z
When he brought them back he cleaned and swept their stall, and then re-entered the dunghill. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z
Conscience!—after half drowning such a hoary-headed knave, I would have hung him up at a yard-arm, without judge or jury, and buried him in a dunghill without benefit of clergy. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5
A crew of furious dishevelled women were dashing over hedges, ditches, waggons, barrels, and frozen dunghills, followed by boys armed with clubs. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers
I came here and found this hole, and, taking an armful of stuff from the dunghill yonder, I hid myself here up to my nose, and waited for the Chouette. The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 1 of 6
You cross the bridge of the Blessed Ford, and presently leaving the main road you turn to the east, by a dunghill, up a narrow lane, parallel with the river.  The Welsh and Their Literature from The London Quarterly Review, January 1861, American Edition
The old buffaloe cow led them to the dunghill, and said, “He is in here.” Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z
Christians are like a council of frogs in a marsh or a synod of worms on a dunghill, croaking and squeaking, “For our sakes was the world created.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt"
Thou thyself shalt be My instrument here of wrath to purge this race of Man And cast him on Time’s dunghill, whence he first began. Satan Absolved
Confound the idiot!" cried old Boreas; "he thinks more of his old jacket, that was not worth picking off a dunghill, than of his wife and his own safety. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II.
Thus, in a double sense, the good are wise; On its own dunghill, wiser than the world. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
In the meantime the dunghill in which Jhore resided had become a palace. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z
The religious houses were suppressed, their enormous wealth was applied for the defence of the realm, and the worse than Augean dunghill of abuses was cleared out with resolute hand. The Divorce of Catherine of Aragon The Story as Told by the Imperial Ambassadors Resident at the Court of Henry VIII
Take the basket away, throw the hops to the dunghill, and leave the small beer liquid to cool in the mashing-tub. Cottage Economy To Which Is Added The Poor Man's Friend
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill; That he may set him with princes, Even with the princes of his people. The Bible Story
Like the imagery of all highest poets, it is selected alike from low and from lofty objects, from the gay and the gloomy, from stars and dunghills. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
One of the gardeners finding him dead threw him on the dunghill. Santal Folk Tales 2011-01-26T03:00:24.700Z
The sight of fenced fields, weeded crops, and human creatures with whole clothes on their back—it was as if one had got into spring water out of dunghill puddles.' Thomas Carlyle Famous Scots Series
Yes," said a third: "he never got outside of his father's dunghill before, I bet you. Black Forest Village Stories
The thing is gone from me: if ye make not known unto me the dream and the interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut in pieces, and your houses shall be made a dunghill. The Bible Story
Job was never so eloquent till he was prostrated on his dunghill. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes
Alexandre Dumas opined that "it was a pearl hid in a dunghill for a decade or more." An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections
An angel may be discovered in the stews; a pearl in the dunghill. Toilers of the Sea
I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life that reads thy rhymes? Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12
England is made a dunghill that    Some bugs may breed and buzz. Songs of the Army of the Night
What though they set your heads, as they shall mine, high on the Netherbow Port; or cast your body on the Gallows' dunghill as they will Sandy's here? The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway
They think they are strong, because they are on their own dunghill. The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres
"There's full pay for your dumbed old dunghills, you cantankerous rebel," said he, as he disappeared into the darkness. Si Klegg, Book 4 (of 6) Experiences Of Si And Shorty On The Great Tullahoma Campaign
Pleas'd with himself, the coxcomb rears his head, And scorns the dunghill where he first was bred. Sound Mind or, Contributions to the natural history and physiology of the human intellect
The one is proud of a molehill, the other of a dunghill.” The Art of Needle-work, from the Earliest Ages, 3rd ed. Including Some Notices of the Ancient Historical Tapestries
Lifting this simple latch, and stooping for entrance to the miserable hut, there sits poverty and ever-moaning disease, clothed in dunghill rags, and ever shivering over the fireless chimney. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)
From time to time, at long intervals, we came upon a village with its sheds, dunghills and gardens, surrounded with palings. The Conscript A Story of the French war of 1813
The whole art of forming composts and dunghills, for the purposes of agriculture, consists in the proper application of this admixture. Elements of Chemistry, In a New Systematic Order, Containing all the Modern Discoveries
She wanted to hurl it away, into the pool, or there on the dunghill. Absolution
“When I have finished my mission, no more need we be slaves of the dust, subject to all the frightful sufferings of this dunghill of flesh.” Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930
But eagles are subject to diseases in flesh, and bone, and blood, just like the veriest poultry that die of croup and consumption on the dunghill before the byre-door. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2)
There were to be seen on a dunghill twenty, thirty children, boys and girls, who yielded up their souls through famine and cold. Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1
Spurn her into the street; there let her perish, And rot upon a dunghill. Jane Shore A Tragedy
In 1758 the suppressed poems were published, and called forth the comment from Gray, 'Parnell is the dunghill of Irish Grub Street.' The Age of Pope (1700-1744)
It was not very little nor yet very big; The pig sat down upon a dunghill, And there poor piggy he made his will. Traditional Nursery Songs of England With Pictures by Eminent Modern Artists
Mr. Greenwood had crowed as though the dunghill had been his own. Marion Fay
In fact a leaven of corruption and ignominy ferments on the dunghill of venal and artificial excitation of the sexual appetite. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study
Perhaps the putrid air continually exhaled may be one cause of the luxuriancy of plants growing on dunghills or in very rich soils. Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air
Many families keep chickens, usually of the variety known as "dunghill fowls," which forage for themselves. The Negro Farmer
The town is said to be old, and in good sooth the dunghills seem to possess a considerable antiquity. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
But what they assert is this: they say that all fools are mad, as all dunghills stink; not that they always do so, but stir them, and you will perceive it. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero
O Decency, forgive these friendly Rhimes, For raking in the dunghill of their crimes. An Essay on Satire, Particularly on the Dunciad
This celebrated plant, commonly called the Thorn Apple, often grows on dunghills, and flowers in the month of July. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
But when he reached Kentucky it would be a different proposition; he would be a rooster on his own dunghill. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight
They affect dunghills and dirt, and have a natural affinity for battle, murder, and sudden death. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
I don't mind," he writes on a loose sheet, apropos of nothing, "the frank dunghill outside a German peasant's kitchen window. The Belovéd Vagabond
I therefore pronounce your Governor, here upon his own dunghill, an unmitigated liar and calumniator, and a villainous coward, wanting the nerve to stand up to his abuse of better men than himself! Americanism Contrasted with Foreignism, Romanism, and Bogus Democracy in the Light of Reason, History, and Scripture; In which Certain Demagogues in Tennessee, and Elsewhere, are Shown Up in Their True Colors
No dunghills or filth of any kind should be allowed to remain near them. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
The resemblance is great, it is striking—Hyperion to a satyr; Thersites to Hercules; mud to marble; dunghill to diamond; a singed cat to a Bengal tiger; a whining puppy to a roaring lion. Shadow and Light An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century
And yet the shops are small and mean, the houses are dirty and uninviting, and dunghills front the cottages first seen by the visitor. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
It was peculiarly comforting to learn that she was a horrid girl whose papa had a draper's shop over a dunghill. The Belovéd Vagabond
Why, fool, They've rubbed the chalk-mark out, how tall you were, Twisted your starling's neck, broken his cage, Made a dunghill of your garden! 1st Girl.They destroy30 My garden since I left them? Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning
If the weather be dry, they should be watered with the drain of a dunghill, and left rather hollow in the middle to retain the moisture. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
This beautiful bird greatly resembles the purple Gallinule in shape and make, but is much superior in size, being as large as a dunghill fowl. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia
When this operation is happily effected, they will clean their houses, move the dunghills from their doors, wash themselves, and go to work in earnest. Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule
The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.—Lyly: Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature
Right along the outbuildings extended a large dunghill, from which manure liquid oozed, while amidst fowls and turkeys five or six peacocks, a luxury in Chauchois farmyards, were foraging on the top of it. Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life
As cabbage stalks then go to the dunghill, and pea shells to the pigs, so let whites of eggs go to the book-binder, or find some other destination. The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, Adapted to the Use of Private Families
Fortinbras, bright and noble, marching to the drum to win a dunghill, gives a colour to the folly. William Shakespeare
At its worst it has collapsed into a death-trap or is rotting like a dunghill. What I Saw in America
If you would be a nuisance, be a Drunkard; for the approach of a Drunkard is like that of a dunghill. Select Temperance Tracts
A measure of wheat sold for a talent, and the dunghills were raked for subsistence. Ancient States and Empires
If a flower grows on a dunghill, 't is still a flower, and not a part of the dunghill. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866
Although of the age of eighty, and so illustrious for his learning, his dead body was dragged along the streets on a hurdle and thrown upon a dunghill. The Huguenots in France
Let him die on his own dunghill, say I, and a fig for the reckoning! The Iron Pirate A Plain Tale of Strange Happenings on the Sea
Beggars cozen him with musty things which they have raked from dunghills, and he preserves their rags for precious relicks. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
The wind bore the unhappy fowl to a dunghill, where it left him for a moment. Laboulaye's Fairy Book
And Jack said: "Well, throw her out on the dunghill." Europa's Fairy Book
The memory of it never leaves him, but swells to a huge balloon that lifts him off his feet and carries him heavens-high—till it lands him on a dunghill. The House with the Green Shutters
Martin Luther classed it with the “monstrous fables that form part of the Roman dunghill of decretals.” The Great Controversy Between Christ and Satan
He, as a farmer, did not mean to be ashamed of his own dunghill. Ralph the Heir
You are a simple woman, my good mother," said he; "everything is accounted worthy of admiration by him who has never quitted his dunghill. Laboulaye's Fairy Book
From nothing but the dunghill of modern democracy could so noxious a plant have sprung. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909
When boxes and barrels were flung out of the Emporium they were generally allowed to lie on the dunghill until they were converted into firewood. The House with the Green Shutters
But after he had been brought down to the dunghill, and reduced as it were to a corpse, did not God restore everything to him, his wealth, his children, his health, and his life? Spiritual Torrents
He seized on the farm implements and stock, of which the dunghill was in his eyes the most important. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
Letters without virtue are like pearls on a dunghill. Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote
And there, on the dunghill, was this little garden of fragrant and flowering plants. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
It was not very little nor yet very big; The pig sat down upon a dunghill. Harry's Ladder to Learning
He hath set the poor with princes, and the kings on the dunghill. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
But for her husband's dying request, she would have sold every horse in the stud, razed the great square of buildings to the ground and made the site of it a dunghill. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
What ill air that I could have met in the street, what channel, what shambles, what dunghill, what vault, could have hurt me so much as these homebred vapours? Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions Together with Death's Duel
And I see there a love that will not be put away by sinfulness, and shortcomings, and evil, but pours its treasures on the unworthy, like sunshine on a dunghill. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John
Here Shakespeare was described as a barbarian, whose works—‘a huge dunghill’—concealed some pearls. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles
Would any man build a house upon a dunghill? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
And the dunghills, in which those weird fowl, the pessimistic realists, love to rake, we will sedulously avoid. The Collaborators 1896
Roger thought the cow very stupid that she did not get upon the great dunghill behind her, which would keep her whole body out of the water. The Settlers at Home
And you wept for a dog of the dunghill Aucassin and Nicolette translated from the Old French
Could it be?—was it possible?—did my eyes play me false?—No; there it was, upon a dunghill—the object of all my researches and lamentations, the identical Phoebus! the lost dahlia! The Lost Dahlia
Let a man be as miserable as Job on his dunghill, it is not so much that, as the unseen and undiscerned posture and habit of their souls, that he abominateth. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
But like all dunghill products, the life of these was ephemeral. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death
Oliver thought that, as the dunghill was behind her, she could not see it. The Settlers at Home
Salt which is savorless is fit neither for the land nor the dunghill. Love to the Uttermost Expositions of John XIII.-XXI.
So shalt thou be pure and thy tales prosper; for untainted fruit never blossomed from a dunghill. Nicanor - Teller of Tales A Story of Roman Britain
It is like the sun's light that shines on a dunghill, and is not defiled, receives no tincture from it. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
His long and unvenerable hairs strayed loose beneath the dunghill relic which crowned them. Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray
Roger turned her head so that she saw the dunghill just behind her, and with some encouragement, made one more vigorous scramble to reach it. The Settlers at Home
Lazarus must leave his dunghill, so that the poor need no longer exult in the death of the rich. The Devil's Pool
He lay stretched out apart from his brethren, covering with his side the greater portion of a noble dunghill, and all its verdure native and imported. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
Will ye be so mad as to refuse it, and embrace the dunghill, and scrape it still together? The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
I on my dunghill, as thou art on thine. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1
Ailwin said aloud that she saw nothing for it but leaving him on this spit of land, to starve on the dunghill. The Settlers at Home
There are some artists of our own day, who, after a serious survey of their surroundings, take pleasure in painting misery, the sordidness of poverty, and the dunghill of Lazarus. The Devil's Pool
What dunghill have you got to the top of, youngster?” cried the old mate. The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley
This weed grows upon a glass window, and upon a dunghill. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
They all are dogs alike,—all sprung from one dunghill; and if there be truth in Heaven, and we believe our blessed Koran, all will burn hereafter in one common furnace. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan
In certain circumstances you might gather from a dunghill a medicinal herb which cleaner ground would never bear. The Parables of Our Lord
A flower was opening its petals though it grew on a dunghill. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy.
You shall go back in them, and keep them and welcome, and we’ll make these as they’ve spoilt a present to the dunghill. True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best
You see the swine embraces the dunghill, that stink is only a savoury smell to them, because it is suitable to their nature. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
They that did feed delicately, that were brought up in scarlet, embrace dunghills. Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
Besides insects, it is very fond of flesh, for it frequently picks bones on dunghills: it is a vast admirer of suet, and haunts butchers’ shops.  The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Jonathan Wild used to say, “I’d rather stand on the top of a dunghill than at the bottom of a hill in paradise.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3
The dunghill as often enthrones the true philosophy of life as the seats which kings occupy. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.
Thus, if we were wise, we might extract gold out of the dunghill, and suck honey out of the most poisonable weed. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
These men's dunghills were not removed, nor the stumbling-blocks taken from the footpath, where it passed the front of their houses. St. Ronan's Well
Only I have no more regard for his little crowings on his own little dunghill. Fantasia of the Unconscious
Virgil, Petrarch, Racine are great in their purple; Job is still greater on his dunghill. Napoleon the Little
The farm buildings formed a square and the huge dunghill in the middle of the yard gave off a warm smell, which mixed with the smell of the half-dried hay. Marie Claire
This jewel loses not its beauty and virtue, when it lieth in a dunghill more than when it is set in gold. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning
Gauçon was dragged from his own house and thrown on a dunghill where a soldier killed him with a rifle shot in the stomach. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915
Then Piet, whose mind was a dunghill, had a horrible thought. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories
But we can say, we men of the nineteenth century, that the nineteenth century is not the dunghill. Napoleon the Little
Bury the skewer transfixed with the thorn in a dunghill Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales
While they were journeying, the Holy Brotherhood entered the house; my lord the Inquisitor was interred in a handsome church, and Issachar's body was thrown upon a dunghill. Candide
He was as innocent of scientific intention as the hen who finds a diamond on a dunghill is of mineralogy. Essays on Scandinavian Literature
Because a monk had been guilty of hoarding up a large sum of money, contrary to the rules of his order, he was denied Christian burial, and his body was cast upon a dunghill. The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales
I suppose Our Lady is in pieces somewhere on a dunghill. By What Authority?
Arrogance is a weed that ever grows on a dunghill. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
The Black Henbane grew almost everywhere about England, in Gerard's day, by highways, in the borders of fields, on dunghills, and in untoiled places. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
You have made us to be laughed at by that father of dunghills! The Lion of Petra
So she was killed, but the stomach, where Tom Thumb was lying, was thrown upon a dunghill. Household Stories by the Brothers Grimm
From what a foul dunghill he had tried to raise the roses of his memories! Woman Triumphant (La Maja Desnuda)
Thy loving-kindness is infinite toward me, and Thy favour manifest, seeing Thou hast so willed I should lie on a dunghill, like Job and Lazarus, whom Thou didst love so well. The Well of Saint Clare
And who will measure the slander that grows out of the dunghill of Protestant ignorance of what Catholics really believe! Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals
No lineament here is left to declare If monarch or chief art thou; Alexander the Brave, as the portionless slave That on dunghill expires, is as low. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
So be it; for in vain I war with fate, Who can raise up a king from the dunghill and make the feeble great. The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs
It was not an unusual sight to see the children of our neighbourhood scratching the offal in the dunghills and the gutterways for scraps of meat, vegetables, and refuse. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine
“What if the salt have lost his proper strength and savoriness,” and, as Christ saith, “be good for no use, scant worth the casting on the dunghill?” The Apology of the Church of England
They must feed on meat like lions; but their souls were like the souls of hens born on dunghills. Romance
They even tore the flesh from human limbs, and broiled it to satisfy the cravings of appetite; nay, what is almost incredible, the very dunghills were searched for undigested fragments to devour. Narrative of the Most Remarkable Events Which Occurred In and Near Leipzig Immediately Before, During, And Subsequent To, The Sanguinary Series Of Engagements Between The Allied Armies Of The French, From The 14th To The 19th October, 1813
In this respect the evil may be likened to rapacious birds and beasts, like ravens, wolves, and swine, which fly or run to carrion or dunghills when they scent their stench. Heaven and its Wonders and Hell
He's game enough on his own dunghill, but a high-blooded lass like you ought to be his master by this time. Hetty Wesley
The little monster still crowed, and flapped his wings on his dunghill, as had been his custom always in the afternoon for certain centuries. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843
This roof is covered first with grass, and then with earth, so that the outward appearance is like a dunghill. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16
I'm on my dunghill sure, as well as you. Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
I do not think I reasoned at all as to her dangers there; but I was as one who sees a flower on a dunghill. Oddsfish!
The houses of offenders were pulled down and made into dunghills. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
He saw a lawyer killing a viper On a dunghill hard by his own stable; And the Devil smiled, for it put him in mind Of Cain and his brother Abel. English Satires
He certainly ought to be the best constructor of a dunghill in the world, for he deals in nothing but dirt. The Black Baronet; or, The Chronicles Of Ballytrain The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
"Oh, as for that," Sir Harry replied, equably, "have it out in the yard, if you please, on your own dunghill." The Ship of Stars
Job, Job, how long wilt thou sit upon the dunghill waiting and expecting thy deliverance, while I wander about from house to house and labour as a slave? Old Testament Legends being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament
If you don't believe it, watch them stand around and cackle over the first big dunghill rooster that walks on his wings before them! Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man
As the other Evangelist puts it: 'It is neither good for the land nor for the dunghill.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
They are not hawks or kites: they are only miserable fowls whose flight is not above their dunghill or hen-roost. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 04 (of 12)
Gow and a gardener Bearing some load along in the dusk to the dunghill. Songs from Books
And it was told them, "He sitteth upon a dunghill without the city." Old Testament Legends being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament
In the lower half Job lies stretched on his dunghill, and the Messiah, of whom he is a prototype, comes, supported by two angels, to give him a palm-branch. The Cathedral
Luther used to say, 'If you want to clean out a dunghill, turn the Elbe into it.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor Prophets. St Matthew Chapters I to VIII
The woman, sir this arrogant, this supercilious damsel, cradled in gold and satin, and bred in the glossy lap of luxury—died—rotted on a dunghill. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843
"Give it them," he said, in friendly, private counsel, "give it them; let them have the full savour of their own dunghill civilization." The Crime Against Europe A Possible Outcome of the War of 1914
Therefore I arose and went out of the city in great misery and sorrow of heart, and sat upon a dunghill, being severed from the sons of men because of my evil plague. Old Testament Legends being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament
Two nights since I dreamt I saw un starvin’ on a dunghill. Children of the Mist
They were left for dead, and their bodies thrown upon a dunghill. Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (2 of 2) (1888)
Even a dunghill invited him to deep reflection. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12
The offals of their food, and other litter, were also piled up in regular dunghills, which probably they made use of at a proper time for manure. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13
Thou art like the trap that was set on a dunghill. Old Testament Legends being stories out of some of the less-known apochryphal books of the old testament
Few of the Greeks could write with greater exquisiteness of natural beauty than this wild poet who loved the dunghill. The Poetry Of Robert Browning
One could plainly distinguish the houses that straggled along the high road; the little yards with their dunghills, and the narrow gardens planted with vegetables. Abbe Mouret's Transgression
The sun is not polluted by shining on a dunghill, and no facts were too ignoble to be beneath the notice of the true student of nature. Bacon
His servants are raised from the dunghill to sit among princes. The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony
Like mules, too, from dunghills, they trample down gardens of roses: and deem that crushed fragrance their own.—Oh! that all round the domains of genius should lie thus unhedged, for such cattle to uproot! Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II
The miracle of the unrelated birth of genius—that out of the dunghill might spring the lily, and out of the stratum of crime the saint—was an article of faith with him. The Poetry Of Robert Browning
In a row, then, these selfsame knee-pans did kneel before the king; who eyed them as eagles in air do goslings on dunghills; or hunters, hounds crouching round their calves. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I
No degenerate weeds the rich ground did produce, But all things afforded both beauty and use: Till from dunghill transplanted, while yet but a seed, A nettle rear'd up his inglorious head. The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2
Provided the dunghill is not before their parlour window, they are well contented to know that it exists, and perhaps is the hotbed on which their own luxuries are reared. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 13 — Religion and Philosophy
Such flowers do not often grow, or at least do not easily grow, on such dunghills. Expositions of Holy Scripture: Romans Corinthians (To II Corinthians, Chap. V)
In many places, on this day, a sacrifice is offered to the dunghill which is afterwards to enrich the ground. Dr. Scudder's Tales for Little Readers, About the Heathen.
A pearl holds its value though it be found in a dunghill; but however, that is not the most probable place to search for it. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer
What are they but bowels of earth, high-sounding air, a banquet of worms, fair dunghills. Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities
O such a worm Sure never writhed beneath the dunghill's base! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 494, June 18, 1831
There is no occasion to vex yourself, for I mean it for the Tartars, as impurities are suiting for the impure:—They said, 'The compost of a dunghill is unclean.' The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 2
But this is a part of the absolute power of kings to raise men from the dunghill and make them their oune companions. Publications of the Scottish History Society, Volume 36 Journals of Sir John Lauder Lord Fountainhall with His Observations on Public Affairs and Other Memoranda 1665-1676
"Ay, you will see all the spooneys that ran, like so many dunghill champions, from 54 40, stand by the President for the vigorous prosecution of the war upon the body of a prostrate foe." A Collection of College Words and Customs
Certain artists of our time, casting a serious glance upon their surroundings, strive to depict grief, the abjectness of poverty, Lazarus's dunghill. The Devil's Pool
Here is the skull of a turnspit, which, after a wretched life of dirty work, was turned out of doors to die on a dunghill. Headlong Hall
There was an all-pervading smell of the stable, of milk, of the dunghill, of hay, and of perspiration—that acrid, disgusting odor of man and beast peculiar to country people. Short-Stories
The cake has long been masticated, consigned to the dunghill with the ashes of that unseasonable pauper. Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
In adversity one sees nothing but one's own dunghill and boils. Nancy
Lazarus must leave his dunghill, so that the poor may no longer rejoice at the death of the rich. The Devil's Pool
He adds quaintly: "A mallard of the dunghill is good enough for me, With pleasant pickle, or it is else poison. pardy." Old Cookery Books and Ancient Cuisine
Stay, Shimei! 'tis your patron, your friend, your benefactor, the man who has saved you from the dunghill. Sterne
Of the three kinds of fowls, the ordinary dunghill fowl is used chiefly for cramming. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro
I have seen the helpless orphan exposed on the dunghill, and none to take him in for fear of infection. The Glories of Ireland
Love is often compared to a flower; but love cannot, like a flower, grow on a dunghill. Primitive Love and Love-Stories
Arrogance is a weed that ever grows in a dunghill. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 572, October 20, 1832
From his dunghill he saw numbers of carriages pass and repass, and he began to be afraid that his prey would escape him. The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3
The dunghill fowl are those which are constantly kept in the country at farms. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro
Not high birth, certainly—for some of the despots of English society are sprung from the dunghill. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829
They said, "To the senses of others they are like the stinks arising from dunghills, the stenches from dead bodies, and the scents from stale urine." The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
The place looks exactly as if originally a collection of dunghills or, perhaps, of excavated earth, left to its natural course after the corpses had been thrown in and the rude billets set over them. Principal Cairns
The most confiding of their own countrymen would not have wagered then—no, nor would they ever peril—one dunghill straw, upon the life of any man in such a strait. Martin Chuzzlewit
And now since I have discussed the dunghill fowl at some length, I will make up to you by brevity with respect to the other kinds of fowls. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro
Throw me on a dunghill, and let me rot there, to infect the air!' Nicholas Nickleby
It was a hideous little street of dead wall, stables, and dunghills, with lofts over coach-houses inhabited by coachmen's families, who had a passion for drying clothes and decorating their window-sills with miniature turnpike-gates. Little Dorrit
The dunghill was turned to the outside of the house. The Life of Thomas Telford; civil engineer with an introductory history of roads and travelling in Great Britain
To dream of a dunghill, you will see profits coming in through the most unexpected sources. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition
Furthermore, he buys eggs and sets them under dunghill hens, transferring the young pea fowls so hatched to the shelter set apart for their kind. Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro
And the best and greatest of us all, is he who crows the loudest and the longest on this little dunghill that we call our world! Clocks
Thus, in one hour, as the wild Arabs served Job, did the British serve my poor brother, breaking him up root and branch; and, from a state of affluence, reduced him to a dunghill. The Life of General Francis Marion
Any man of any time who has ever written with vigor has been immeasurably nearer to the dunghill on which he sank his talons while crowing than to all literary ancestors. Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations
As generations passed, most of the natives remained loyal to the dunghill, but a few took the cure. Stories from the Old Attic
Sir 22:2 A slothful man is compared to the filth of a dunghill: every man that takes it up will shake his hand. Deuterocanonical Books of the Bible Apocrypha
It is not too much to say that the nature both of the artist and of the dunghills is "subdued" by such a process, and yet neither is a "loser." Albert Durer
Shall they mount the dunghill of their vanity, clap their wings, and exult, as if they too had conquered a Clifton? Anna St. Ives
We advanced to the door along a rough pavement of round stones, which parted the house from the dunghill. Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
Every body knows Harlowe-place, for, like Versailles, it is sprung up from a dunghill, within every elderly person's remembrance. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 1
These are but natural graces, my good Bishop, Which in the Catholic garden are as flowers, But on the heretic dunghill only weeds. Queen Mary and Harold
It triumphs over the Prince of Darkness, and covers a multitude of sins, as dew or hoar frost cover and make beautiful a dunghill. Albert Durer
As a sizar he seemed a wretched farmer's boy, reeking from the dunghill, sitting next the sons of big peers. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
A dunghill stood in front of the house, and hens, pigs, and the friendliest dogs in the world disported themselves where the flower- garden ought to have been. The Roof of France
The Catholics lifted up his body, but the Donatists plucked him out of their hands and flung him from the top of a tower, and he fell on a dunghill which broke the fall. Saint Augustin
I remember we met very much like two strange birds, that see each other for the first time on the same dunghill; or two quadrupeds, in their original interview in a common herd. Satanstoe
Oh, thou that wert of humankind—couched so— A beast of burden on this dunghill! oh! Poems
In this atmosphere of wine and sweat they would laugh gaily, finding amusement in everything, blooming naturally like roses growing out of a dunghill. L'Assommoir
If you walk under the houses you are drenched by the waterspouts; if you attempt the middle, there is a river; if you would go between both, there is the dunghill. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
It has been called "trash," "muck," "dunghill excrement," by grave authors. Trivia
A dunghill at a distance sometimes smells like musk, and a dead dog like elder-flowers. Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I believed that he had neglected his public duty, and I took this public occasion, even as it might be said upon his own dunghill, to convince him of his error. Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 3
But his heart was burning in him; and what he could not say in the Forum he thought he might venture on with impunity in the Senate, which might be called his own dunghill. Caesar: a Sketch
In a moonlight night, we see dogs and rats feeding at the same dunghill. Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
When they fly they make a cackling noise Something like the dunghill fowl. the flesh of this fowl is dark and only tolerable in point of flavour. The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
What should we think of people in a famine feasting sumptuously on their private stores, whilst women were boiling their children for a meal and men fighting with dogs for garbage on the dunghills? Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
The two oldest sons were unable to get any, but the youngest son got a fine supply from the monkeys’ garden under the dunghill. Filipino Popular Tales
Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. The World English Bible (WEB): Isaiah
He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory, for the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. The World English Bible (WEB): 1 Samuel
He takes the beggar from the dunghill, that He may set him among the princes of His people.  Sermons on National Subjects
His individual privations and pains may have been compensated for by subsequent plenty and prosperity; but there are other just men who rot on the dunghill and die in despair. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
Nay, and they are on their dunghill, while we do not know the country. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
"Know ye who and what I am, dunghill rogue?" The Geste of Duke Jocelyn
They have no spurs, but still, such is their high spirit and activity, they browbeat every dunghill fowl in the yard and force the guinea-birds, dogs and turkeys to own their superiority. Wanderings in South America
Wherever there's a dunghill of human credulity they swarm.' The History of David Grieve
Without any previous consultation among themselves, they sit silent and sad for seven days and seven nights, gazing with fascinated horror on the misshapen figure on the dunghill. The Sceptics of the Old Testament: Job - Koheleth - Agur
If thou art so afraid, dunghill, do not go; stay here and be hanged; or go and hide thy loggerhead under Madam Proserpine's petticoat. Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
Many fragrances come from the flowers that grow on the dunghill of the world, but they are all gathered in Him whose name is 'as ointment poured forth,' filling the house with its fragrance. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark
Mothers boiled their children, nobles hunted on dunghills for food. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
So we should not expect old heads on young shoulders, nor wonder if people, lifted from the dunghills of the world, have some stench and rags of their old vices hanging about them still. Expositions of Holy Scripture Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, and First Book of Samuel, Second Samuel, First Kings, and Second Kings chapters I to VII
It was stated some time since, in the House of Commons, that one gentleman, Mr. Turner, had thrown £7000 worth of Indian cotton upon a dunghill, because he could find no market for it. The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished
He has much ado to square his theory with facts, and especially with the fact which brought him to Job's dunghill. Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
"He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill to set them among princes and to make them inherit the throne of glory." The One Great Reality
The boy quickly repeated the words he had studied: "And afterwards the foul corpses of the vile enemies of the Fatherland should be thrown on the dunghill." The Created Legend
God works with broken reeds, and the princes in His realm are beggars taken from the dunghill. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
Yet I'm not really angry," he assured himself, "when I see how she longs to run away and scratch from maggots in that dunghill of cacophony. Swann's Way
The gate of Ahasuerus's palace was not a favourable soil for the growth of a devout soul, but flowers can bloom on dunghills, and there have been 'saints' in 'Caesar's household.' Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes
He had been a viler beast than the cutpurse poet of old France, without the lilies of verse that bloom pure white above the dunghill of Villon's life. We Can't Have Everything
Flowers grow on a dunghill, and the very reeking rottenness may make the bloom finer. Expositions of Holy Scripture
It appeals to the noble and the peasant, to the beggar on the dunghill and to the prince on his throne, in precisely the same fashion. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
"What!" said he, "would you want to make me a pig in a dunghill?" World's Best Histories — Volume 7: France
I'll change my state with any wretch, Thou canst from gaol or dunghill fetch; My pain's past cure, another hell, I may not in this torment dwell! The Anatomy of Melancholy
They are a great dunghill where all sorts of dirty and nasty humours meet, stink, and ferment, for all the parts are in a perpetual tumult. Character Writings of the 17th Century
Indeed, she was an amazing blossom to have come off the dunghill of Calder Street. Hilda Lessways
There were saints in Caesar's household, flowers that grew on a dunghill, and they were not bidden to abandon their place because it was full of possible danger to their souls. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
I will not rake the dunghill of thy crimes, For who would read thy life who reads thy rhymes? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 10, August, 1858
China then enjoyed hackney coaches, tea gardens, and hilarity; while the delights of European capitals were processions of monks among perpetual dunghills in narrow crooked lanes.--E. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 01 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
He manures the earth like a dunghill, but lets himself lie fallow, for no improvement will do good upon him. Character Writings of the 17th Century
It is neither good for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, men cast it out at the doors. The first New Testament printed in English
How base is pride from his own dunghill put! A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8
Let go my arms, you dunghills; let me speak. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 7
Constant visits to the vilest dens, where crime sprouted from the dunghill of poverty, had made Madame Angelin brave. Fruitfulness
The spawn of a decayed shopkeeper begets this fry; out of that dunghill is this serpent's egg hatched. Character Writings of the 17th Century
"Do you ask why, ancient mire of a dunghill," replied Shidoub, "because I have but two legs to run on and a horse has four, not counting his tail." Oriental Literature The Literature of Arabia
No dunghill hath so vile an excrement, But with his beams he will thenceforth exhale. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8
"Saving your Majesty's presence," they said, "he lieth upon a certain dunghill." The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
Ténès; built upon a dunghill,   Its water is blood,   Its air is poison,   By the Eternal! Moorish Literature
His riches are like a dunghill, that renders the ground unprofitable that it lies upon, and is good for nothing until it be spread and scattered abroad. Character Writings of the 17th Century
Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its savor it is good for nothing, not even for the dunghill. The Old Roman World, : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilization.
No other reason, but that gluttony is a sin, and too many dunghills are infectious. A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 8
And the dunghill complained grievously that it should be disturbed for so slight a cause. The Twilight of the Gods, and Other Tales
Get away from here, father of the dunghill. Moorish Literature
But this is not his element; he must home again, being like a dor, that ends his flight in a dunghill. Character Writings of the 17th Century
The nuisances of dunghills near the doors of the farmhouses have been utterly abolished for sanitary reasons, also whitewashing is an obligation imposed by the Government. The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland
Aladdin ordered the magician's corpse to be removed and thrown upon a dunghill, for birds and beasts to prey upon. Types of Children's Literature
He begins to look about for a convenient dunghill whereon to deposit you, and for an able-bodied substitute to do your work. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02
But, after all, why should we be annoyed instead of being thankful, when bright flowers spring up on a dunghill? The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography
There is nothing in the earth so pitiful--no, not an ape-carrier; he is not worth thinking of, and, therefore, I must leave him as nature left him--a dunghill not well laid together. Character Writings of the 17th Century
But when they are dead, all men hold them unprofitable and nothing worth, and be not eaten, but rather thrown out on dunghills. Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus
And Ulysses, when he saw him, wiped away a tear, and said, "Surely this is strange, Eumaeus, that such a dog of so fine a breed should lie here upon a dunghill." The Story of the Odyssey
Yet here—almost like pearls in a dunghill—are hidden mementos of two of the most exquisite of Italian minds. Italian Hours
The barn is close against it, and the family is not averse to seeking the warmth of the cattle and of the dunghill. The Eve of the French Revolution
Nor is it worth bestowing upon the poorest pilgrim; wherefore, when I am gone, I desire that you, Mr. Valiant, would bury it in a dunghill. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
And God's design is to throw all thy righteousness out into the street, into the dirt, and dunghill, as to that. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
But now he lay on a dunghill, and vermin swarmed upon him. The Story of the Odyssey
The place has become the shabbiest farm-house, with muddy water in the old pièces d'eau and dunghills on the old parterres. Italian Hours
Here èxtremes meet, anointed Kings    whose crownèd heads uneasy lie, Whose cup of joy contains no more    than tramps that on the dunghill die. The Kasidah of Haji Abdu El-Yezdi
Ay, but I have not told you the thousandth part of it; nor is it my business now to rake to the bottom of that dunghill. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
No, not for the dunghill, but to be cast out, and trodden under foot of men. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02
You're right in one thing—never to give up your own dunghill, so long as you can get room on it for a fair fling with your enemy. Charlemont; Or, the Pride of the Village. a Tale of Kentucky
Nemi has a much better appreciation of its lovely position than Genzano, where your only view of the lake is from a dunghill behind one of the houses. Italian Hours
Then lay him down on the dunghill," said Owen Fitzgerald; "but for heaven's sake do not let him interrupt me. Castle Richmond
These things considered, and duly put in practice, if God will blow upon a man, then let him be content, and with Job embrace the dunghill. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
True, may that man say, I was taken out of the dunghill, I was born in a base and low estate; but I fear God. The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works
And when we have convinced him that he is the baron, we can get him drunk again, as he is now, and lay him on the same dunghill in his own old clothes. Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus
We perceive this spirit of fighting in game chicken, which they exert occasionally from their infancy; even so it is amongst dunghill chickens, though not carried to that degree of perseverance. A Dissertation on Horses
Marat, the foulest birth of the revolution, whose licentious heat generated venom and rascality, as a dunghill out of its own filth produces adders' eggs—Marat was no more. La Vendée
Those who submitted, were by the mutineers styled dungs, i.e. dunghills. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Permit me to say, though the idea may be somewhat coarse, I had rather stand on the summit of a dunghill than at the bottom of a hill in Paradise. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
If a Danish peasant actually lay at times in a drunken stupor on a dunghill, he saw no reason why Jeppe should not appear on the stage in an equally disgusting condition. Comedies by Holberg : Jeppe of the Hill, The Political Tinker, Erasmus Montanus
But stay, let me see; do not bring your AEsop, your politician, unless you can ram up his mouth with cloves; the slave smells ranker than some sixteen dunghills, and is seventeen times more rotten. The Poetaster
As I shall not be a feather the better for it, I hate that game-breed, and prefer the old hen Peace and her dunghill brood. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
A dunghill about London, on which the soil brought from necessary houses is emptied; or, in more technical terms, where the old gold collected at weddings by the Tom t—d man, is stored. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
"They have all the elements of a dunghill about them," says Eudore, with a sigh of conviction. Under Fire: the story of a squad
Get out and crow on your own dunghill, if you can find one.' In Homespun
Do you think I'd let a dunghill beast like that crow over me? The Red Planet
Else there is many a young cockerel that will stand upon a dunghill and crow about his father, by way of making his own plumage to shine. Cousin Phillis
A coward: a cockpit phrase, all but gamecocks being styled dunghills. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Then, as if giving utterance to the process of his own thought, he said: —Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Madame de Berny, he added, had foreseen his mother's and sister's transformation when she told him he was a flower that had sprung up on a dunghill! Balzac
The lazy sow that lay on the dunghill grunted, but took no further notice of the imperial intruder. Joseph II. and His Court
He calls himself a worm, and the fertile earth a dunghill; and all the blessings of life by the thankless name of vanities. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 4 (1794-1796): the Age of Reason
Moving dunghill; a dirty, filthy man or woman. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish together. Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): the American Crisis
Her heart's best treasures flung on a dunghill! Foul Play
For example, he is bound up in the last sheaf, and, thus encased, is carried or carted about, beaten, drenched with water, thrown on a dunghill, and so forth. The Golden Bough
Thy masters have abandoned thee to thy native dunghill! Antonina
To die dunghill; to repent, or shew any signs of contrition at the gallows. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
I would as lief enjoin Roderigo Borgia to fulfil the sacred duties of his Vicarship; I might as profitably sprinkle incense on a dunghill. Love-at-Arms
Listen to their lamentation: They that ate dainty food are desolate in the streets; they that were reared in scarlet embrace dunghills. The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations
Sometimes, after being wheeled round the village, he is flung on the dunghill. The Golden Bough
But my flanks had been torn open by such a bastinado, nor did I recover for a space of three days, when I found myself lying cast-out upon a dunghill. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15
Dung, an abbreviation of dunghill, also means a journeyman taylor who submits to the law for regulating journeymen taylors' wages, therefore deemed by the flints a coward. 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
Life is a composite of contradictions—a puzzle to the wisest of us: the lily lifting its graceful purity aloft may have its roots in a dunghill. Children of the Whirlwind
Permit yourself to be swept quietly into the dunghill. Framley Parsonage
These exercise frequently in the artillery ground, engage in mock fights and sieges, and storm the dunghills with great address. London in 1731
"Faugh! it makes me sick to see a dunghill like that strutting around in feathers that belong to game birds." The Red Acorn
He had had his early days of contempt for it, when it seemed to him a jewel, dim at the best, hidden in a dunghill, a taper burning low in an air thick with vulgarity. Nona Vincent
"Aye," she answered scornfully, "starvation on a dunghill in Touraine—or something near akin to it, for which I have no stomach." Saint Martin's Summer
About thirty corpses lay wallowing in blood on the dunghills before the doors. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4
So the cow was killed, and cut up; and the stomach, in which Tom lay, was thrown out upon a dunghill. Grimm's Fairy Tales
At Clermont-Ferrand,5143 "there are many streets that can for blackness, dirt and scents only be represented by narrow channels cut in a dunghill." The Ancient Regime
A curly-haired dog which had been spending the night on a dry dunghill now rose in lazy fashion and, wagging its tail, walked slowly across the courtyard. Boyhood
Right along the outbuildings extended a large dunghill, from which manure liquid oozed, while amidst fowls and turkeys, five or six peacocks, a luxury in Chauchois farmyards, were foraging on the top of it. Madame Bovary
They are produced in an artificial soil, and taste of nothing but the dunghills, from whence they spring. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker
They heap sea shells upon the dunghill, which in time moulder into a fertilising substance.  Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland
Such words rank with the action of Charles Stuart, when he had the bones of Oliver Cromwell and Robert Blake torn from their graves and flung on dunghills or fixed on Temple Bar. Hero Tales from American History
Yet out of this system that sows hate and discontent, that is a practical denial of brotherhood, of God, springs here and there love like a flower in a dunghill. The Vision Splendid
God gives the most beautiful and precious thing that earth can have, and we just take it and cast it away; we toss our pearls upon the dunghill and leave them. Sanitary and Social Lectures, etc
So lofty was Sir Thomas's repute that backers were easily found, but the dunghill rooster instantly showed a clean pair of heels, and the cheat was justified of his cunning. A Book of Scoundrels
“Now sign thy name, and that of thy worshipful cabbage-garden and dunghill in filthy Scotland.” A Monk of Fife
It's my whim to give it a last kick myself, and throw it away decently before it lodges on the dunghill forever. After Dark
They were the “Bad Lands” of life and character: surely it is wiser to seek quite new realms than to build mud huts and dunghills on the “Bad Lands.” Essays in Little
Turn out that eyeless villain;—throw this slave Upon the dunghill.—Regan, King Lear
Go to; thou hast it ad dunghill, at the fingers' ends, as they say. Love's Labour's Lost
Base dunghill villain and mechanical, I'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech.— King Henry VI, Part 2
There's none protector of the realm but I. Break up the gates, I 'll be your warrantize: Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms? King Henry VI, Part 1
Now open the window and fling them out on that dunghill. The Cloister and the Hearth
These fits always occurred when men were present: it was as though they had given way to a burning desire to treat them to the dunghill on which they had grown to woman's estate. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
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