Word: dungeness
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...take an even more remarkable feat of "identification," "What voluptuous thrill may not shake a fly, when she at last discovers the one particular leaf, or carrion, or bit of dung, that out of all the world can stimulate her ovipositor? Does not the discharge then seem to her the only fitting thing...
...single title "Arabia!"--that is, it sets the scene, and sets the scene, and sets the scene. And not all the perfumes of Alec Guinness, who nattily impersonates the Arab Prince Feisal with obvious and engaging contempt for the whole business, can sweeten the arid piles of camel dung in which he is trapped. It is also good to see Claude Rains back in North Africa, still, as ever, the mysterious servant of a corrupt colonial power. But ditto...
Spreading Graves. By this point the reader sees that Novelist Singer, beginning his account amid cow dung and human bestiality, has subtly led his tale away from the kind of reality that is composed of what is probable and what is worldly. As the novel continues, it is legend. Wanda dies in childbirth, and her screams reveal her as a Gentile. Jacob is arrested, but escapes and travels with his infant son to Palestine. In his old age, Jacob returns to the village where Wanda died. He finds that her bones, buried in unconsecrated ground, have been surrounded by spreading...
Accordingly, what the Moslem peasants want is relatively modest: work instead of unemployment; schools instead of illiteracy; decent homes instead of huts built of cow dung and grass; above all, "an end to the bad old times." And if there is any clear F.L.N. policy for the future, it is in favor of these aims...
...preaching atheistical sermons and got back at Mama by starting to lay young girls.'' Then there is what Williams calls "the dunghill speech," a not-for-the-squeamish passage in which Shannon relates to Hannah how he once saw the natives of an unnamed country scavenge a dung heap for undigested food. In the internal logic of the play, the speech is fully justified, for Shannon is testing Hannah and her previously stated creed that "nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind...