But as for our Monkish Antiquaries, and the Monastick Learning, it seems to be reserv'd for the Improvement of those, whose Minds, like barren Soils, will never bear without Dunging.
"An Essay on Criticism"
John Oldmixon
He omitted such confidential details as Mary was Dunging the potato-patch, or he had just mended his trousers; he filled his pages instead with ingenious reflections which he supposed, and not without some justification, had possibly not occurred to the minds of thinkers in the past.
"Furze the Cruel"
John Trevena
10. His digging about it, and Dunging of it, is to show his willingness to apply gospel helps to this barren professor, if haply he may be fruitful.
"The Works of John Bunyan Volume 3"
John Bunyan