kitchen-midden

You have lived long enough in the East and, as your writings show, observantly enough, to detect the pearl which lurks in the kitchen-midden, and to note that its lustre is not dimmed nor its value diminished by its unclean surroundings.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

The stuff reeked like a kitchen-midden, and its touch made Conan's flesh crawl.

Conan and The Gods of The Mountain Green, Roland 1993

A gull, seeking the pickings of the kitchen-midden, floated across from the wide free waters of the lagoon.

Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981

"I would classify his actions as arising from conscious effort at cortico-thalamic integration," the woman said, like an archaeologist who has just found a K-ration tin at the bottom of a neolithic kitchen-midden.

Hunter Patrol H. Beam Piper 1934

Tunnel under his great moraines and stalagmites of words, dig down into his vast kitchen-midden of discordant and raucous polysyllables, blow up the hard, thick shell of his almost theological manner, and what you will find in his discourse is chiefly a mass of platitudes - the self-evident made horrifying, the obvious in terms of the staggering.

Prejudices : first series, 1919

Dubois and managed, from roof to kitchen-midden, by Ching Po.

The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

Sir Banas, he comes in the night and makes them all alive at the back of our kitchen-midden, 'piped the child.

Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

The nest might be upon the ground or lodged among the bushes; but the only ground space large enough was covered layer over layer with pearly clam-shells, the kitchen-midden of some muskrat; and the bushes were empty.

Roof and Meadow Dallas Lore Sharp 1899

In the neighbouring jungle, though I diligently searched half the morning, I could find no dead carcase, and nothing in the 'kitchen-midden,' where somehow I seemed nearer the source; but at last in the kitchen itself I ran it to ground in a compact parcel done up in a banana leaf.

Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

It is also clear from the kitchen-midden and other prehistoric remains; from the presence, even now, in Japan of the bearded Ainus (a word meaning in their own language "men"); and from the numerous accounts of Ainu -

Ancient China Simplified Edward Harper Parker 1887