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Are all these and similar works to be tossed onto the dust heap?

But even that may not be enough to spare the event from the dust heap of posterity.

"They want to throw us on the dust heap.

They didn't find the diamond in the dust heap.

Every possession was reduced to trash, then tossed onto the dust heap.

Things that might be important later on have a way of winding up on the dust heap when you clean.

Phil had seen pictures in the paper of dust heaped in drifts like snow.

One minute dust heaps, the next minute people.

He hitched up his trousers and spat into the dust heap he'd scuffed up.

Look where that got Russia and the other completely socialized states before Communism was finally relegated to the dust heap of history.

It was, but it also held toilets, a huge tub for bathing, and dust heaps that must have been towels.

"No--a chap in history, that great dust heap called history.

A generation has grown up since we swept home ec into the dust heap of history and hung up our brooms.

He may have taken this from Augustine Birrell's 1887 phrase, "that great dust heap called 'history.' "

On screen, the Harmon dust heaps resemble a mining town, with shacks in the shadows of black mounds and workers in rags sifting through dirt.

But of course you don't believe the grumblings of a gloomy Slav who's just bitter that his old empire is one of the later dust heaps?"

And now the flood of society's waste has found its way into that great dust heap called history, in the form of New Jersey's first museum devoted to trash.

Chant, priests, Whine, shuffle, genuflect, He will always be as rigid as he is now Until he crumbles away in a dust heap.

We can be eternally grateful for legitimate film noir masterpieces, and we can consign "The Long Goodbye" to the dust heap of mediocrity where it belongs.

Aware of the possibility of creating an "India only" policy, however, American officials said Pakistan, a strong ally in the 1980's, should not be relegated to the dust heap.

Working in the dark, for he dared not bring the lantern into this dust heap of dried-out hay, he found the pile of oaken boards far beneath the eaves.

In this tale, trash becomes money, and money becomes prestige, as the foul dust heap that created the Harmon fortune is turned into the coin of admittance to society.

U.S.-China relations are shackled by the linkage, which embodies two aspects of old-think that should join the era that spawned them on the dust heap of history.

It was at that moment that his attention was attracted by an ornament on the mantelpiece which stood out among the other rather gimcrack objects like a jewel on a dust heap.

His body was found in a rubbish heap on March 10, 2006.

For you will go to the rubbish heap with Nag.

My husband lies on the rubbish heap this morning, but before night the boy in the house will lie very still.

You've only been in this office for a month, and it looks like a rubbish heap."

Instead of throwing your tree on the rubbish heap why not use it to help the environment?

I felt like I'd been thrown on the rubbish heap."

How many rabbits have had a good meal off men's rubbish heaps?

These rubbish heaps have the potential to spread diseases to the park's wildlife.

"I'm absolutely filthy and I smell like a rubbish heap."

He met her in that favorite trysting spot, a rubbish heap.

And its processes can finish throwing Britain onto the rubbish heap.

"Found in her apartment less than five blocks from Tabor's rubbish heap."

Whoever had done it, he wished they'd thrown him on the rubbish heap instead.

And then there had been the rats, who lived under the rubbish heap in one corner of his territory.

Examining the contents of the rubbish heaped against the wall, another mystery.

You've left my study like a rubbish heap.

I found these objects in a rubbish heap in the south of France.

Throw that on the rubbish heap, and we'll be sand washing away in the tide.

But as we were walking across the site back to the car my friend threw it in the rubbish heap, lazy or stupid?

'And quite likely put them on the rubbish heap,' said Diana.

Drop onto the rubbish heap you will find outside, and there you are."

They met under a window to share food supplies free of the dust of the rubbish heap.

A dog nosed by the rubbish heaps, keeping an eye on the monkeys.

According to the manufacturer, their cymbals are either perfect or thrown onto the rubbish heap.