dusthole

Travis, fatally intransigent Alamo commandant, reflecting the suicide's need to invent a Cause to sanctify the foregone intent, had ignored Houston's command, and the garrison's martyrdom to the cause of land for the white man vested the place with such sanctity, as to secure its preservation, the dusthole to become in time the city of San Antonio Pop.

Alamo Rag David Ackley 2011

Some evil-disposed persons had the malice to say that the spot had been formerly the site of a subsequently-filled-up dusthole; but the _crusta_ceous party, depending as they did upon a single piece of bread -- _all crumb_ too -- however genuine, could not be said to have so much to go upon as the _carboni_ferous section, with their heap of cinders, the latter being large in quantity, though of doubtful authority.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 2, 1841 Various

"I put it together again with the scraps I found in the dusthole."

Lady Molly of Scotland Yard 1912

He would rather describe a dusthole and enumerate every potato paring in it!

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

He would rather describe a dusthole and enumerate every potato paring in it!

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

He would rather describe a dusthole and enumerate every potato paring in it!

God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889

He hasn't stirred out of the dusthole on any of the three days. '

Popular Tales from the Norse George Webbe Dasent 1856

Even if he broke it, and threw the fragments into the dusthole, the fragments might be remarked for their beautiful blue color, and the discovery might follow.

Jezebel's Daughter Wilkie Collins 1856

"kitchen-middens," which have been aptly compared to a modern dusthole.

The Antiquity of Man Charles Lyell 1836

Oh, you can leave a message or a bouquet or something of that kind, but it's long odds it's shoved into the dusthole. "

The Slave of Silence