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  • But it's increasingly in unfriendly hands so we're more likely to just stop using it so much, a bit like Flo's horse-dung point

    Look How Clever We Are ! Newmania 2008

  • And I looked and saw horse-dung, and I said,“Keep it yourself, much good may it do you”.

    Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

  • And then the fresh smell of snow in the school yard, the pines, the horse-dung, the fumes from passing lorries, the smell of firewood wherever one turns, smoke from all of Riihimäki's chimneys.

    Archive 2009-08-01 David McDuff 2009

  • The book as one critic said was like Ireland: full of “whiskey, decay, rot, guttering candles, tobacco, damp, horse-dung and dust.”

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • Whatever Miron claims about 'stimulating interest in music' is so much horse-dung when you just know that the ONLY bottom line he cares about is selling newspapers.

    What's that, retailers? I can't hear you... 2007

  • The book as one critic said was like Ireland: full of “whiskey, decay, rot, guttering candles, tobacco, damp, horse-dung and dust.”

    American Connections James Burke 2007

  • And they have no wood, or else little; and therefore they warm and seethe their meat with horse-dung and cow-dung and of other beasts, dried against the sun.

    The Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • The Levite, affronted at his comparing him to a ball of horse-dung, replied, with a most significant grin, “To the tribe of Issachar.”

    The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

  • Herring and spices and timber, amber and furs and silks, all manner of strange and exotic stuffs had paid for the cobbles that drummed beneath my tyres now, at a time when the town's prime street was a rutted wallow of mud and horse-dung.

    Chase the Morning Rohan, Michael Scott 1990

  • So many rich, high, ornate houses, so many people, so many kitchen chimneys, so much horse-dung, so many carriages, so much to look at and be amazed by.

    Sharpe's Regiment Cornwell, Bernard 1986

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