Garbage Heap

A hundred yards from the house the smell was unbearable, the garbage-heap stench of hyenas, and he felt it tear into his lungs. ❋ T (2009)

These thoughts were in my mind as I went downstairs, but ever back of them hovered other and more alluring suppositions -- what was the reason for the girl, here in this vile dive -- a rose in a garbage-heap -- and who was she? ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

‘Oh, I never slept so well since I was in Mexico,’ said Villiers, with a triumphant look of a bird that has just pecked a good morsel from the garbage-heap. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They lie together; Sophiatown, where any may own property, Western Native Township which belongs to the Municipality of Johannesburg, and Claremont, the garbage-heap of the proud city. ❋ Alan Paton (1948)

They are just so much refuse which will be swept into the garbage-heap of history! ❋ Unknown (1922)

Berna, I can't bear to think of you in that garbage-heap of corruption down there. ❋ Unknown (1916)

I should go to the garbage-heap, a quarter-mile off in the forest. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

His whole appearance suggested dyspepsia; and this I quite understood when I saw the awful mixtures he would eat at that garbage-heap. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

When they were within thirty yards of the garbage-heap, Grumpy turned to her son and said something which, judging from its effect, must have meant: "Johnny, my child, I think you had better stay here while I go and chase those fellows away." ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

During the days that followed, Grumpy came often to the garbage-heap, but soon apparently succeeded in forgetting all about her son. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)

The police plucked him off a garbage-heap in the early morning. ❋ Unknown (1900)