Lexicographical Neighbors of Dustheap
Literary usage of Dustheap
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anarchism and Other Essays by Emma Goldman, Hippolyte Havel (1910)
"... the moment he will not allow himself to be used or sell his principles, he is
thrown on the dustheap. Such was the fate of the president of the company, ..."
2. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"... or required to make room for fresh additions were thrown by the sacristans
over the wall into a dustheap in the court of tue XT Dynasty Temple below, ..."
3. Modern Democracies by James Bryce Bryce (1921)
"... for the exercise of the suffrage should be a pre-condition to the grant of it
was in 1918 tossed contemptuously on the dustheap of obsolete prejudices, ..."
4. Shakespeare from Betterton to Irving by George Clinton Densmore Odell (1920)
"... to the World's dustheap, without accomplishing thy purpose. Until too late;
for in that very speech which the sensitive ..."
5. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1897)
"Facts were treated as unworthy of her; mere stuff of the dustheap, mutton-bones,
old shoes; she swam above them in a cocoon of her spinning, ..."
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