dung-hill

In these a cottage, a dung-hill, the meanest and most ordinary utensils of the kitchen, are capable of giving us pleasure.

On the Sublime and Beautiful 2007

One young gentleman (a very delicate porker with several straws sticking about his nose, betokening recent investigations in a dung-hill) was walking deliberately on, profoundly thinking, when suddenly his brother, who was lying in a miry hole unseen by him, rose up immediately before his startled eyes, ghostly with damp mud.

American Notes for General Circulation 2007

The shrunken heap of poor earth in the midst of this great glitter, is more pitiful than if it lay upon a dung-hill.

Pictures from Italy 2007

I crossed the Bridge of the Blessed Ford, and presently leaving the main road, I turned to the east by a dung-hill, up a narrow lane parallel with the river.

Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

We arranged that all our men should come and fall into order with pike and musket, over against our dung-hill, and we settled early in the day, that their wives might come and look at them.

Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004

No, nothing can give the idea of the puking with which this old diplomatic idiot inspires me in piling up his stupidity on the dung-hill of bourgeoisie!

The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

Now, this unchangeableness of his purposes the Lord brings as one demonstration of his deity; and those who make them liable to alteration, upon any account or supposition whatsoever, do depress him, what in them lies, into the number of such dung-hill gods as he threatens to famish and destroy.

The Doctrine of the Saints��� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed 1616-1683 1966

Summon some scavenger to collect the vile remains, and bury them in a dung-hill.

City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston George Thompson

Sundayes Church-service, which is all that God gets at our hands; how perfunctorily, and fashionably is it slubbered over; how are his Saboths made the voyder and dung-hill for all refuse businesse, divided betweene the Church and the Ale-house, the May-pole commonly beguiling the

A Coal From The Altar, To Kindle The Holy Fire of Zeale In a Sermon Preached at a Generall Visitation at Ipswich Samuel Ward

Or, sure, these men are mad, to worship a dung-hill;

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 4, April 1810