dunghole

Updated: May 24, 2025

Each sacred shilling represented so much virtue; for industry is a virtue. He looked at them with a father's pride. How sweet the butter our own hands have churned! He blessed his reverend friend for having taught him an art in a dunghole where idiots and savages teach crank. He blessed his reverence's four bones, his favorite imprecation of the benevolent kind.

Charles Reade - It Is Never Too Late to Mend