A dunghill was the pbce of his high bii th j Yet the impo (tor would afpii e to ot. From Wordnik.com. [The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come ..] Reference
Bury the skewer transfixed with the thorn in a dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
"I'm sitting here on the dunghill of my own shame and guilt.". From Wordnik.com. [Confessions Of A Fallen Priest] Reference
"The worm is so proud to be king of the dunghill," said Elric. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortress of the Pearl]
His servants are raised from the dunghill to sit among princes. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of James Renwick A Historical Sketch Of His Life, Labours And Martyrdom And A Vindication Of His Character And Testimony] Reference
But like all dunghill products, the life of these was ephemeral. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
And he took a potsherd and scraped the corrupt matter, sitting on a dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Raising up the needy from the earth, and lifting up the poor out of the dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is neither profitable for the land nor for the dunghill: but shall be cast out. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
Sharpe knelt up, saw a flicker of a shadow beyond the dunghill, and fired his rifle. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
Sharpe, peering out, saw that the enemy was hidden in ditches or behind the dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Rifles]
If a flower grows on a dunghill, 't is still a flower, and not a part of the dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866] Reference
His long and unvenerable hairs strayed loose beneath the dunghill relic which crowned them. From Wordnik.com. [Young Mr. Barter's Repentance From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray] Reference
The dunghill as often enthrones the true philosophy of life as the seats which kings occupy. From Wordnik.com. [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.] Reference
As generations passed, most of the natives remained loyal to the dunghill, but a few took the cure. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from the Old Attic] Reference
In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Moab will be trodden down in his place, even like straw is trodden down in the water of the dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB):] Reference
He seized on the farm implements and stock, of which the dunghill was in his eyes the most important. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
Not high birth, certainly -- for some of the despots of English society are sprung from the dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829] Reference
He made his pile from an as, and would pick a quadrans out of a dunghill with his teeth, any old time. From Wordnik.com. [The Satyricon — Volume 02: Dinner of Trimalchio] Reference
It belongs to those weeds of the dunghill which, planted by "an enemy," his hand will assuredly "root up.". From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
A lily among thorns, a pearl on a dunghill, and beauty under a veil, will make one turn aside to look on it. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
In certain circumstances you might gather from a dunghill a medicinal herb which cleaner ground would never bear. From Wordnik.com. [The Parables of Our Lord] Reference
But if you imitate the cocks in all things, why don't you scratch up the dunghill, why don't you sleep on a perch?. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1] Reference
Hence the exchange served as a microcosm, a single instance only, of the all too apt "diamond on a dunghill" metaphor. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference
Gauçon was dragged from his own house and thrown on a dunghill where a soldier killed him with a rifle shot in the stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915] Reference
The two oldest sons were unable to get any, but the youngest son got a fine supply from the monkeys 'garden under the dunghill. From Wordnik.com. [Filipino Popular Tales] Reference
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