Dung

Rotten wood cannot be carved; walls of dung cannot be worked with a trowel.

You ask me, child, what love is? A star in a pile of dung.

The Ostrich is the largest bird, the Wren the smallest; the Owl is the most despicable; the Hoopoe the most dirty (as it eats dung); the Bird of Paradise is most rare.

Dung beetles are insects.

"Someone can yell at you, maybe he's not your enemy; someone else can help you, without being a friend; when it's cow dung that covers you, you could at least be more discreet." This is what Muḥend-U-Yeḥya (MoḥYa) said, may he rest in peace, in the story he titled "The Bird".

Dung works at the radio station.

Do you think a peasant girl living a more organic life than you in a forsaken country, as she uses cow dung to make fire, is in a way richer than you?

Ziri smeared dung all over the walls.

The dung beetle started to roll a ball away.

"Once you're in a mess, at least you shut up," MohYa said in the story of "the bird in the cow dung" he told in one of his audio tapes.

Poor Tom, that eats the swimming frog, the toad, the todpole, the wall-newt, and the water; that in the fury of his heart, when the foul fiend rages, eats cow-dung for sallets; swallows the old rat and the ditch-dog; drinks the green mantle of the standing pool[…]

Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts; and one shall take you away with it.

The labourer at the dung cart is paid at 3d. or 4d. a day; and on one estate, Lullington, scattering dung is paid a 5d. the hundred heaps.

a cart he found, That carry'd compost forth to dung the ground

She had been dunging the roses and was fairly covered in muck.

[…] for hungry birds have devoured ſeeds, and having moiſtened and warmed them in their bellies, a little after have dunged in the forky twiſtes of Trees, and together with their dung excluded the ſeed whole which erſt they had ſwallowed: and ſometimes it brings forth there where they dung it, […]