The ripened culms of the gramineae, and the stalks of the prairie flowers, have alike crumbled into dust under the devastating breath of fire.
Even the dust clinging to his curled hair could not altogether conceal its natural gloss, nor the luxuriance of its growth; while a figure tersely knit told of strength and endurance beyond the ordinary endowment of man.
There was a melee in the road before our house; a high wind blew the thick dust in my eyes and half blinded me, so that I only saw struggling forms on foot and on horseback, and could not distinguish friend or foe.
And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not written of the soul!
When quite dry, lightly dust it with fine talc powder (French chalk) and polish off again with a bit of clean rag.
Since dust may fall into the varnish whilst it is on the negative, it is the best plan to pour the excess of varnish off the negative into a second bottle instead of back into the first, out of which it was poured.
Dark spots or specks are frequently due to metallic dust either from the fingers or in the water.
The sun appears through thedust dull red, and no bigger than the moon, just as it does on a foggy morning in London.
They blow from the parched lands of Central Australia, and bring with them clouds of dust and insects.
The ground was perfectly dry, for there had been no rain for some time; and, as the wind was in our faces, it drove the clouds of dust behind us.
But we soon lose sight of the distant scene, as we rattle along through the dust down-hill.
After the process has been continued sufficiently long, the gold-dust is collected from the blankets, and is retorted by the Chinamen themselves, and then they bring it for sale.
It was pretty severe under a hot sun, amidst clouds of dust and bits of chaff flying about from the thresher.
The Majorca gold is generally alluvial, consisting of coarse gold-dust and small nuggets washed out from the gravel.
Such allegories were the delight of the Middle Ages; now they are as dust and ashes.
Then we rased off the flesh from the necke, and cast dust thereon, and set it in the sun to dry.
Then let us cast dust upon his skinne, and carry it home to our master, and say that the Woolves have devoured him.
Fernie picked up the rifle and began to wipe off the dust with his hand.
All I could see was his head, and that very indistinctly because of the dust which now enveloped both the lion and the dead ox.
He came in great leaps, roaring as he came, then thought better of it, for he stopped sharply, throwing up clouds of dust as he did so, and pulled up almost on the ox.
Got to tidy my room and dust the bookcase and hang up my clothes in the closet and cut the front grass.
As he came down the street with his baseball glove dangling aimlessly in one hand, he stumbled over the Mosher youngster who was intent upon some childish pursuit in the dust of the gutter.
It was like a huge corral full of frightened animals running wild through dust so thick that they could not be seen a hundred feet distant.
This occasioned him uneasiness because they would soon be down on a level, where palls of dust threatened to close over the whole valley, and it would be impossible to see any considerable distance.
Everyone of the men had been kicked, pulled, knocked down, and so coated with sweat and dust that they now resembled Negroes.
Dust columns, like smoke, curled up from behind them and swung low on the breeze.
That portion of the skin he consumed to dust in the fire; and, observing that a strong odor remained in the room, he deliberately turned on the unlighted gas for a few minutes.
He struck Drumsheugh a mighty blow that well-nigh levelled that substantial man in the dust and then the doctor of Drumtochty issued his bulletin.
There was dust upon her leathern shoes and on the black folds of her alpaca dress, for she had walked from the railway station, and the roads were dry.
Then Brown went away, and seated himself in an arbor on one of the terraces, where he was seen once or twice to take out his handkerchief and wipe his eyes, as if the dust troubled him.
Every one gave her opinion on this advent of frost in Paris, then they expressed their preference for the different seasons with all the trivial reasons that lie about in people's minds like dust in rooms.
And fumbling in his pocket he drew out a ring full of keys, selected one, and walked rapidly towards the little wooden cabin, dust holes of the soul into which believers cast their sins.
There was duston the shining surfaces of the furniture and on the polished floors.
Beneath the splenetic cupola of the heavens, their feet trudging through the dust of an earth as desolate as the sky, they journeyed onwards with the resigned faces of men condemned to hope for ever.
An empty flagon they have cast aside, Broken and soiled, the dustupon my pride, Will be your shroud, beloved pestilence!
He found his friend at home, writing, with his desk pushed against the open window, and the dust and shabbiness of his room dismally obvious in the hot July sunshine.
If he had wanted a step to reach the object of his wishes, she would have laid herself down in the dust and let him walk over her body.
He never cared about having them sent after him, and would let them lie in the box till the dust got thick upon them.
She took it down from its place over her bureau, where it had hung for years, and brushed the dust from the back.
The car seemed to leap a hundred feet into the air, plunge through space, and strike the ground with a dull smash that sent dust and splinters flying through every inch of space.
Here the commonest man has risen from the dust and proved himself a king.
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Though my body, like that of the beasts, is made of the dust of the ground, [Gen.
He felt as a lost speck of dust blowing about in space and time.
As her eyes followed the dust she felt deep sympathy for these fragile creatures.
These male youths were kicking a mist of dust into the air in what at first seemed like a purposeless expenditure of energy but when she thought about it seemed more like a male initiation ceremony.
But precisely when Lear grows up before the mind's eye into a vast cloud and shadowy monument of trouble, Goriot grows downward into the earth and takes root there, wrapping the dust about all his fibres.
There in its accustomed place was Case's revolver, every chamber loaded and a thin coating of dust on the grip.
He had skated down the flinty scarp of Misery Hill, with the wheels of his buckboard locked, and hauled up at the adjutant's in a cloud of dust and misapprehension, with barely time for a bath and a shave before dinner.
According to Moses, He was doing just as well yonder in Eden working a miracle with the dust of the earth.
Next Belus, the supreme divinity, cut off his own head, and his blood, trickling down and mingling with the dust of the earth, produced human creatures having intelligence and spiritual life.
If there is any value in evolution against the Bible it lies in the use that men make of it to destroy the idea that God created man out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life.
Man is but dust, and unto dustshall he return; “let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.
No dust and dirt can stain it,' she replied, 'walk through that dark street and see.
Ye who would have beautiful garlands beyond, must care for the neglected blossoms here, and wash the dust of life's great highway from their drooping petals.
It comes to us when our souls soar above the labarynthian forest of opinions and theories, high into the clearer atmosphere, untainted by the dust and smoke of our daily lives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dust" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
