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In respect to the beavers dunging in their houses, as some persons assert, it is quite wrong, as they always plunge into water to do it.

From Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys by Harvey, William

And thus much for the fashion, digging, and dunging of gardens.

From The English Husbandman The First Part: Contayning the Knowledge of the true Nature of euery Soyle within this Kingdome: how to Plow it; and the manner of the Plough, and other Instruments by Markham, Gervase

In respect to the beaver dunging in their houses, as some persons assert, it is quite wrong, as they always plunge into the water to do it.

From A Journey from Prince of Wales's Fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, 1772 New Edition with Introduction, Notes, and Illustrations by Tyrrell, J. B.

A man with expense and infinite toil, By digging and dunging, ennobled his soil; There fruits of the best your taste did invite, And uniform order still courted the sight.

From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 by Browning, William Ernst

His digging about it, and dunging of it, is to show his willingness to apply gospel helps to this barren professor, if haply he may be fruitful.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 by Bunyan, John