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Sitting up there like King Muck of Dunghill Palace with a night cabin, a day cabin and the great cabin all to yourself, and my two officers in an airless cupboard!
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Sitting up there like King Muck of Dunghill Palace with a night cabin, a day cabin and the great cabin all to yourself, and my two officers in an airless cupboard!
Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000
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Any Christian knows that the Host and Ruler of Many, the Lord of the Dunghill, the Prince of Darkness was a shape-transformer whose principal disguises were a ram and a fly.
Incubus Arensberg, Ann, 1937- 1999
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There is a Story in some Authors, that having put Human Seed into a Viol close stopp'd, and plac'd it for some time in a Dunghill that was moderately hot; they observ'd that the Particles drew up themselves in such Order, as to assume the Form of a Child.
Tractus de Hermaphrodites Or, A Treatise of Hermaphrodites Giles Jacob
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_Fæces_ as before, that if any thing should yet remain therein, it might be dissolved; this must be done four times in fourty days and nights; for if any good be in the _Fæces_, it will be dissolved in that time, then cast the Dregs away as unprofitable, being but Dirt, and to be cast to the Dunghill.
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_Dunghill-Cock_, and so Chase him up and down for half an Hour, till he pants again; and thus heated, carry him home, and scower him with half a
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That night before setting the new chickens at liberty, Bob caught and killed the two remaining Dunghill roosters.
Hidden Treasure John Thomas Simpson
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Plantations; and they had great Quantities of Corn and Dunghill
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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Titles of his Family; no sooner does a _Cacklogollinian_ grow rich, but all the World courts him, tho 'sprung from a Dunghill: And even those who can never hope any thing from him, shew him a profound Respect.
A Voyage to Cacklogallinia With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country Captain Samuel Brunt
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He dwelleth in the presence of the King of the Country, he sits and eats with him at his table, he is become a Companion of Immortals, and has a House now given him to dwell in, to which the best Palaces on Earth if compared, seem to me to be but as a Dunghill.
The Pilgrims Progress, in the Similitude of a Dream; The Second Part. Paras. 1-99 1909
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