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Example sentences for "dunghill"

Lexicographically close words:
dungaree; dungarees; dunged; dungeon; dungeons; dunghills; dunkeln; dunlin; dunna; dunnage
  1. He wore a muddy-white dunghill sort of thing on his head, and it hung down in slips on his shoulders, which were a good deal scratched.

  2. But eagles are subject to diseases in flesh, and bone, and blood, just like the veriest poultry that die of croup and consumption on the dunghill before the byre-door.

  3. Lifting this simple latch, and stooping for entrance to the miserable hut, there sits poverty and ever-moaning disease, clothed in dunghill rags, and ever shivering over the fireless chimney.

  4. The interior of the square rejoices in a glorious dunghill (O, breathe not the name!

  5. Not a dunghill in the village was so broad and smooth and with such clean edges as the one which Aloys built before the house of Jacob the blacksmith; for a fine dunghill is the greatest ornament to a villager's door-front in the Black Forest.

  6. It differs from the wyvern of heraldry only in having a head like that of a dunghill cock.

  7. Half-an-hour after, Robert came upon Mr. Lammie emptying the two bottles of whisky into the dunghill in the farmyard.

  8. The mob insulted her and pelted her with dirt; and after having carried her through the whole city, they threw her on a dunghill or a hedge of thorns outside the ramparts, forbidding her ever to enter the walls again.

  9. From his dunghill he saw numbers of carriages pass and repass, and he began to be afraid that his prey would escape him.

  10. Luther spoke of the "dunghill of Roman decretals.

  11. Shall I be flouted thus by dunghill grooms?

  12. Base dunghill villain and mechanical, I'll have thy head for this thy traitor's speech.

  13. A dunghill stood in front of the house, and hens, pigs, and the friendliest dogs in the world disported themselves where the flower- garden ought to have been.

  14. They said, moreover, that He had made many pilgrims princes, though by nature they were beggars born, and their original had been the dunghill (1 Sam.

  15. And it was told them, "He sitteth upon a dunghill without the city.

  16. Think also what a dunghill of filth is covered with those ornaments; that it would turn thy stomach if thou sawest what is within them.

  17. It is no more wonder that a stuffed paunch hath a lustful fury, than that the water runs into the pipes when the cistern is full, or than it is wonder to see a dunghill bear weeds, or a carrion to be full of crawling maggots.

  18. Base Dunghill Villaine, and Mechanicall, Ile haue thy Head for this thy Traytors speech: I doe beseech your Royall Maiestie, Let him haue all the rigor of the Law Armorer.

  19. There's none Protector of the Realme, but I: Breake vp the Gates, Ile be your warrantize; Shall I be flowted thus by dunghill Groomes?

  20. All that remained for him was to capture the thing, and recover his bag.

  21. Such creatures were to be kept under, and not puffed into a vain conceit of themselves by men who had left the dunghill to put on a friar’s frock.

  22. This was no baron’s business, but a dunghill fermentation, and being slow and sodden and savage, was like to be more terrible when thoughts of blood and fire and vengeance fumed up out of this mixen of discontent.

  23. The females of the dunghill fowl are called hens, the breeding males cocks, and the males which have been altered capons.

  24. He who wishes to have a model [Greek: ornithoboskeion] should equip it with all three kinds of fowls, though chiefly the dunghill variety.

  25. Of the three kinds of fowls, the ordinary dunghill fowl is used chiefly for cramming.

  26. Furthermore, he buys eggs and sets them under dunghill hens, transferring the young pea fowls so hatched to the shelter set apart for their kind.

  27. There are three kinds of fowls usually classed as poultry," replied Merula, "dunghill fowl, jungle fowl and guinea fowl.

  28. The dunghill fowl are those which are constantly kept in the country at farms.

  29. They resemble guinea chickens more than dunghill fowls.

  30. And now since I have discussed the dunghill fowl at some length, I will make up to you by brevity with respect to the other kinds of fowls.

  31. Yet this inestimable Pearl will all ‭ Our dunghill chanticleers but obvious call; ‭ Each modern scraper this Gem scratching by, ‭ His oat preferring far.

  32. So lofty was Sir Thomas's repute that backers were easily found, but the dunghill rooster instantly showed a clean pair of heels, and the cheat was justified of his cunning.

  33. A brisk young Cock, in company with two or three pullets, his mistresses, raking upon a dunghill for something to entertain them with, happened to scratch up a Jewel.


  34. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dunghill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    base; dump; morass; poltroon; recreant