How To Use Dunghill In A Sentence
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A cock is bold on his dunghill.
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General de Wet, speaking from the top of a dunghill, declared that he would rather stand there with his own people than on a decorated platform amongst strangers.
The Rise of the South African Reich - Chapter 1
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In purging the New Testament of its miracles and of the very notion of the Resurrection, Jefferson claimed he was separating the "diamonds" from a "dunghill.
Denis Lacorne: Rick Perry's War On The Founding Fathers
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Moreover, it won't work: as I noted last month, Glenn Mulcaire, whose work for the News Of The World has formed the basis for most of the recent slew of revelations, was only one of around a dozen investigators working for those who scrabble around on the dunghill that is Grubstreet.
Tim Fenton: Phone Hacking - A Lack Of Leadership
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QUOTATION: Every cocke is proud on his owne dunghill.
Quotations
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_Pingit et in varios terrestria sydera flores_," [4] and variety of curious and costly workmanship, but also with rare and medicinable herbs sought up in the land within these forty years: so that, in comparison of this present, the ancient gardens were but dunghills and laistowes, [5] to such as did possess them.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Spelga Dam held very good trout - a welcome addition to compo rations - and a local farmer let me dig little red brandling worms out of his dunghill to bait my hooks.
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This broken clock/drum says: Amazon reviewers suck, as does Amazon; they're the flies making the dunghill look lively.
"Serpent!" screamed the Pigeon.
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Halbert, "doubt not that thy faithful Affability will be more commoved by the speech of this rudesby, than the bright and serene moon is perturbed by the baying of the cottage-cur, proud of the height of his own dunghill, which, in his conceit, lifteth him nearer unto the majestic luminary.
The Monastery
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Every cock crows on its own dunghill.
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It is by his being taught to contemplate himself as an out-law, as an out-cast, as a beggar, as a mumper, as one thrown as it were on a dunghill at an immense distance from his Creator, and who must make approaches by creeping, and cringing to intermediate beings, that he conceives either a contemptuous disregard for everything under the name of religion, or becomes indifferent, or turns what he calls devout.
Science, religion and lucre ...
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He loved crowds, and smoke and glare, and soot and dust and dunghills.
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In 1648 his remains were disinterred and buried under a dunghill, but after the Restoration they were restored to their original resting place.
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And, had he not been by his confederate, as with a dunghill cock, trodden as it were and gotten with egg, I doubt whether ever his hennish heart, joined to his shrewd wit, would have served him, so soon to put the Q. 's green and tender state in so manifest peril and adventure.
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
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He squirms on his dunghill, and like a child lost in the dark among goblins, calls to the gods that he is their younger brother, a prisoner of the quick that is destined to be as free as they -- monuments of egotism reared by the epiphenomena; dreams and the dust of dreams, that vanish when the dreamer vanishes and are no more when he is not.
Chapter 37
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Instead of counting dunghills, researchers have set up an array of microphones that record calls for three months at a time, yielding rich data about the animals' movements and communication.
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A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
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A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
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Beyond this court the second passage led to a second square court, occupied in the same way by its dunghill; and from this court there was yet a third passage leading to a third court, and third dungheap.
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In 1648 his remains were disinterred and buried under a dunghill, but after the Restoration they were restored to their original resting place.
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a dark brown black and white. the black is that which most predominates, and wh [i] te feathers are irregularly intermixed with those of the black and dark brown on every part, but in greater proportion about the neck breast and belley. this mixture gives it very much the appearance of that kind of dunghill fowl which the hen-wives of our country call dommanicker
Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806
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Cony Rabbit Dunghill Cock Also called a hoope, bird that nestles in ordure, the lapwing.
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A cock is bold on his dunghill.
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A dunghill was the pbce of his high bii th j Yet the impo (tor would afpii e to ot,
The pilgrim's progress from this world to that which is to come ..
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Instead of mounting a dunghill and crowing how well we have revenged ourselves on others, we might want to offer sound and sustainable ideas of individual, economic and social justice to ensure as far as humanly possible that every person everywhere has an equal opportunity to enjoy life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness.
Bin Laden's Death Raises Moral Issues
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For > [Because of the] corses > bodies laystall > {Place where bodies are laid; dunghill, midden} 3 Of murdered men, who therein strewn lay,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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By this worthy frock of mine, quoth Friar John, thou hast a mind to slip thy neck out of the collar and absent thyself from the fight, thou white-livered son of a dunghill!
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Every cock crows on its own dunghill.
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A cock is bold on his dunghill.
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A cock is valiant on his own dunghill.
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(the school being then in the church) till it became a kind of dunghill, and so remains to this day.
Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies
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The clothing and bedding of plague victims are particularly dangerous, as are wooden buildings, earthen floors, rubbish heaps, and dunghills.
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Every cock crows on its own dunghill.
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Rocky Mountains watered by the Columbia River. at least we did not See them untill we reached the waters of that river, nor Since we have left those mountains. they are about the Size of a well grown hen. the contour of the bird is much that of the redish brown Pheasant common to our country. the tail is proportionably as long and is composed of 18 feathers of equal length, of a uniform dark brown tiped with black. the feathers of the body are of a dark brown black and white. the black is that which most prodomonates, and white feathers are irregularly intermixed with those of the black and dark brown on every part but in greater perpotion about the neck breast and belly. this mixture gives it very much the appearance of that kind of dunghill fowl, which the henwives of our Countrey Call dommanicker. in the brest of Some of those birds the white prodominates most. they are not furnished with tufts of long feathers on the neck as other Pheasants are, but have a
The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806
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Every cock crows on its own dunghill.
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He made his pile from an as, and would pick a quadrans out of a dunghill with his teeth, any old time.
Satyricon
