1.   Magnus, I thought, was a spasmo, spotty piece of elephant dung.

2.   Among other things, the exhibition featured a painting of the Virgin Mary with a breast fashioned from elephant dung.

3.   As for Ofili, he regularly used elephant dung to mean something other than mystical regeneration.

4.   Benzer had wheelbarrow duty one day, shoveling elephant dung in the hot summer heat.

5.   - New Scientist tells us that Mike Bugara, a conservationist and artist from Kenya, who has discovered a method for making paper from elephant dung.

6.   A diamond-studded crucifix is surely more offensive to God than a portrait of Mary surrounded by elephant dung.

7.   A lacquered piece of elephant dung covered one breast, and photographic cutouts of buttocks that looked like wings surrounded the image.

8.   A portrait of the Virgin Mary flecked with elephant dung.

9.   A Marsala of body odor and a constellation of spices seeping from sweaty pores mingle with the musky stew of elephant dung, jasmine flower and tropical decay outside.

10.   But elephant dung is prominent in three other Ofili paintings, which have nothing to do with religious themes.