dungheaps

Besides there is Field-husbandry, with perplexed settlement of Convent rents: corn-ricks pile themselves within burgh, in their season; and cattle depart and enter; and even the poor weaver has his cow, -- 'dungheaps' lying quiet at most doors (_ante foras_, says the incidental Jocelin), for the Town has yet no improved police.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838

My favorite is the one about the flying dungheaps, which made it through three versions by me and three other readers before I caught it.

Really Funny Stuff Becca 2006

My favorite is the one about the flying dungheaps, which made it through three versions by me and three other readers before I caught it.

Archive 2006-10-01 Becca 2006

As it crept downwards from house to stables, from stables to barns, from barns to cowsheds, and from cowsheds to dungheaps, one could hardly tell where one began and the other ended!

An Autobiography 2004

"They're friendly, sure enough, " Harper said as they left another small settlement where the dungheaps were bigger than the cottages.

Sharpe's Havoc Cornwell, Bernard 2003

He could smell nothing but the rank odour of the dungheaps in the town.

Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995

The houses had been mere thatched huts with dungheaps at their doors.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

That was why this was an endangered species, since very few roosters laid eggs in dungheaps under the Dog Star-they tended to get confused and do it under the Cat Star-and most toads had little patience with the seven years it normally required to hatch the egg.

Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981

That was why this was an endangered species, since very few roosters laid eggs in dungheaps under the Dog Star-they tended to get confused and do it under the Cat Star-and most toads had little patience with the seven years it normally required to hatch the egg.

Centaur Aisle Anthony, Piers 1981

Empires are the dungheaps out of which democracies grow.

The One Woman Thomas Dixon 1905