'ordure' that was thrown at him; and it is an old saying that if enough mud be thrown some will stick. From Wordnik.com. [Henry Fielding: a Memoir] Reference
And others compared him to a heaping quantity of ordure. From Wordnik.com. [Madoff: A Scoundrel Or A Sociopath?] Reference
An ordure from this planet that could not be extinguished. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Kurious Oranj] Reference
Finally, they found a montjoy or heap of ordure and filth. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
Kwita´koli kiva Kwita, ordure; ordure heap. ko´li, a heap. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
I looked shabby and ridiculous and felt like a sack of azure ordure. From Wordnik.com. [Sagittarius Whorl]
Children swarmed, and lay about in the filth and ordure of the pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
They would be kept alive and fed until they drowned in their own ordure. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
Smithfield was a place where they laid all the ordure and filth of the citie. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (3 of 12) Henrie I.] Reference
At the furthest reach of their chain was the midden-heap, stinking of ordure. From Wordnik.com. [Kushiel's Avatar]
Tells are heaps of rubble, garbage and ordure into which cities have crumbled. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: January 4, 2004 - January 10, 2004 Archives] Reference
J'avais l'impression d'etre dans un remake de "le pere noel est une ordure". From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
They tried to sell this ordure to everyone and anyone but there were no takers. From Wordnik.com. [Digg Is Also Feeling The Need For Speed] Reference
“I am human ordure,” Rotten Bobby muttered, looking down. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 15] Reference
And there's another thing that's ordure: the silence from the moralizing right wing. From Wordnik.com. [Is Horsesh*t Presidential?] Reference
“I am human ordure,” Rotten Bobby moaned as he went by me. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 15] Reference
Dust lay heavy in the air; the room was filled with the stench of illness and ordure. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
The easemente of ordure thei vsed at home, but commonly feasted abrode in the stretes. From Wordnik.com. [The Fardle of Facions, conteining the aunciente maners, customes and lawes, of the peoples enhabiting the two partes of the earth, called Affricke and Asie] Reference
Dust lay heavy in the air - the room was filled with the stench of illness and ordure. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Eagle]
Only a complete change of parliament will clear out the ordure from the Westminster stables. From Wordnik.com. [MPs have no Legg to stand on] Reference
They would fain, said he, be at the chewing of ordure, that would eat the case wherein it was. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
A faint marshlight struggling upwards from all the ordure through the bristling grey-green weeds. From Wordnik.com. [A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man] Reference
Apart from the slightly unpleasant references, Kerevan was talking ordure on the factual front too. From Wordnik.com. [Loose lips sink ships] Reference
And they had better prepare for a lot more ordure when the austerity policies really bite next year. From Wordnik.com. [A brand of austerity about as progressive as Thatcher's] Reference
For one thing, the skanky stench of monkey ordure cut through the complicated memories of childhood. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
But this snippet from Martin Fletcher's column, highlighted by Iain Martin, raises the level of, erm, ordure. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
His regal cloak was sodden with droppings, and white ordure dripped from the rim of his raised visor into his brows and beard. From Wordnik.com. [Conqueror's Moon]
The sand was heavy and deep; it stank from the ordure of men and horses, buzzing with flies, which flew from it to drink my sweat. From Wordnik.com. [The Persian Boy]
There was a very bad old man there, who, when he met any one, would spit in his face, blow his nose upon him, and rub ordure upon him. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
The streets of the Promised Land flowed not with milk and honey but with ordure, and the glories of Askalon and Asdod were faded indeed. From Wordnik.com. [O Jerusalem]
Unluckiest of all, however, were the lead oarsmen, whose rowing seats were immediately to the left and right of a growing pile of ordure. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
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