dunging
- present participle of dung.
Example Sentences
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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
And so I ought," answered Sancho; "for some of your worship's wisdom must needs stick to me; as dry and barren soil, by well dunging and digging, comes at last to bear good fruit.
From The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha by Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de
But as for our Monkish Antiquaries, and the Monastick Learning, it seems to be reserv'd for the Improvement of those, whose Minds, like barren Soils, will never bear without dunging.
From An Essay on Criticism by Oldmixon, John
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
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.
