Sentences with phrase «of horse dung»

Superstars didn't just drop the ball, it falls over, face first, into a steaming pile of horse dung.

This idea that the Christian life is all about me and what I do id a load of horse dung.

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The seeds must be sown in a bed of hot horse dung, as musk melons are, and moved into a pot when [the plant] has gotten three or four leaves, that it may be carried from place to place more conveniently to receive the the heat of the sun; and in autumn carried into some house to avoid the injury of cold nights at that time of year when it is to bear fruit.

We were looking for an animal to characterise Manchester City's deflating title bid, and after a certain amount of brainstorming came up with an animal that has «the mane of a horse, but in all other respects resembles a bull; its horns are curved back in such a manner as to be of no use for fighting, and it is said that because of this it saves itself by running away, meanwhile emitting a trail of dung that sometimes covers a distance of as much as three furlongs, contact with which scorches pursuers like a sort of fire.»

Steaming horse dung has yielded treasure that could solve Europe's mounting problems of sewage disposal.

Williams and his colleagues searched layered lake - bottom deposits in Indiana and New York State for the spores of the fungus Sporormiella found in the dung of large plant - eating mammals such as mammoths and horses.

The feathery snow muffled the sounds of horses and engines but the burning cold made the smells sharper: gasoline, horse dung, the alcohol on the breath of the snoring postilions, the acrid cologne and cigarettes of chauffeurs in yellow - and red - trimmed uniforms, and the flowery perfumes on the throats of the waiting women.

Virtual reality is often exploited for its high - tech gloss and interactivity, Wolfson focuses not on the technology but on its capacity to isolate the viewer.Rafa Esparza in «Figure Ground: Beyond the White Field» (2017), built this rotunda out of adobe bricks made by hand from a combination of clay, horse dung, hay, and water from the Los Angeles River.

Recent discoveries of the dung deposits of Pleistocene animals in dry caves and alcoves on the Colorado Plateau, including those of mammoth, bison, horse, sloth, extinct forms of mountain goats, and shrub oxen, have provided floristic assemblages from which temperature and moisture requirements for such assemblages can be deduced in order to develop paleoenvironmental reconstructions tied to an absolute chronology.

Perhaps I have an advantage over scientists and others who are interested in this field of research: I grew up in west Texas and I know horse dung when I see it.