dustheaps

There were frowzy fields, and cow – houses, and dunghills, and dustheaps, and ditches, and gardens, and summer – houses, and carpet – beating grounds, at the very door of the Railway.

Dombey and Son 2007

She and her husband had worked too, and had brought their simple faith and honour clean out of dustheaps.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Chemical substances and commodities, like the conspiracies, and like the dustheaps in Dickens, embody the moral defects of the society that produces them.

Conspirators Johnson, Diane 1985

The surrounding country is level as a prairie, broken only toward the southeast, by the ridiculous dustheaps called the Gog-Magog Hills.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

So Miramon did what was requisite, and from the garrets and dustheaps of

Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

Then he turned to these dreadful ten whom he had revivified from the dustheaps and garrets of Vraidex, and it became apparent that Miramon was deeply moved.

Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

The others did but nibble at temporal things, like furtive mice: she devastated, like a sandstorm, so that there were many dustheaps where Mother Sereda had passed, but nothing else.

Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

Some to dustheaps, some back to Adullam Street, some to nomadic life.

London's Underworld Thomas Holmes 1882

When winter comes, the trees are leafless, the fields and meadows withered, the flowers die away into dustheaps; in prairie, mountain and garden no freshness lingers, no beauty is visible, no verdure can be seen.

The Promulgation of Universal Peace 1844-1921 `Abdu'l-Bah�� 1882

There are gardens open, and seats provided in the middle of the cities, so that the poor children need not play on dustheaps and under carriage-wheels.

Normandy Picturesque Henry Blackburn 1863