An old cannon-ball pitted with rustand dating possibly from Marlborough's days.
See how the rust is Gnawing the mystical Sword of St. Michael; And how the faithful Wind-plucked archangel Falls into emptiness; Frozen the thunder in Hand of Jehovah.
The first thing he did was to clean up some armor that had belonged to his great-grandfather, and had been for ages lying forgotten in a corner, eaten with rust and covered with mildew.
The two shapeless masses of iron rust in the British Museum, brought from Nineveh by Layard, only reveal on close examination that they were once supple and glittering coats of mail.
We're gettin' old; lay not up your treasures where moth and rust corrupt and thieves break through and steal.
Sandy was beginning dinner on a huge stove spotted with rust and pancake batter.
The mountains rose on either side high above where the hardiest trees could manage to exist, gorgeously stained in great chevrons of red, orange and rust yellow.
Note: This rust is a carbonate of copper, and should not be confounded with true verdigris.
Resembling iron rust in appearance or color; brownish red, or yellowish red.
Must I rustin Egypt never more Appear in arms, and be the chief of Greece Dryden.
Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.
Specifically: (a) A composition used in making a rust joint.
Defn: Partaking of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rust copper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; æruginous.
To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
Note: Rust is also applied to many other minute fungi which infest vegetation, such as the species of Ustilago, Uredo, and Lecythea.
That which resemblesrust in appearance or effects.
Defn: Having the ironwork loose or corroded; -- said of a ship when her bolts and nails are so eaten with rust that she has become leaky.
Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk.
Early in the morning of the seventh day they cleaned their arms, wiping away the rust and fungus which had grown upon them.
Here Drake delivered them "their severall armes, which hitherto he had kept very faire and safe in good caske," so that neither the heavy dew nor the sea-water should rust them or wet the powder.
Writing some fifty years later, Wise alludes to their shaggy coats, brindled and rust colour, and I myself can remember them as he describes them.
About them the bracken rises breast high, its tender green catching blue lights in summer, no less lovely when winter rains have reddened its rust colour to match with the red tree trunks.
And it is by this means that the rust which appears is produced.
The salt made during the first two weeks is not so good, being usually stained by the rust at the bottom where incrustations have not yet adhered.
Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rustdoth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal" (Matt.
There are about fifty patents for this object and with all of them before their eyes, the British Society for the Advancement of Art still hold the $5,000 reward for a pigment or covering which will perfectly protect from rust and fouling.
On land the great question is what will prevent rust; on water, what will prevent rustand fouling of bottoms of iron vessels.
No mere protector of the iron from rust can be found superior to pure red lead and linseed oil.
The result has been a deadlock, and the ensuing rust and numbing of all life and thought, so that a century of revolution seems to have brought Spain no nearer a solution of its problems.
It cleaned off its rust and began to oil its joints and look to its tools.
A moment later Jane Restless went on to the butcher's, while Mrs. Rust pottered heavily along to Smallbones' store to obtain some iron bolts for her husband.
Mrs. Rust sniffed audibly, and hoped she would be happy, but warned her strongly against the tribulations of an ever-increasing family, and finally flopped heavily into a chair calling loudly for brandy.
And thus Pretty Wilkes, blustering out of Abe Horsley's emporium in a heat of indignation, found little sympathy for her grievance from Mrs. Rust and Jane Restless.
The point where the barbs are located seems to rust more quickly than do other parts of the wire.
This plan is good enough so far as immediate mechanical strength is concerned, but is not desirable, because it is hard to remove a nail when a pin is to be removed, and also because the rust of the nail rots the wood.
It is stuccoed, and apparently was once white, but it is now gray with rust and age.
And for your sword, your Honor may please to put it up, it will rust in the scabbard before ever I shall desire you to draw it.
The Charles City commons declared that great quantities of tobacco had been raised for building forts "which were never finished but suffered to goe to ruine, the artillery buried in sand and spoyled with rust for want of care".
Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose rust is in it, and its rust is not gone out of it: cast it out piece by piece, there hath no lot fallen upon it.
Great pains have been taken, and the greatrust thereof is not gone out, not even by fire.
Then set it empty upon burning coals, that it may be hot, and the brass thereof may be melted: and let the filth of it be melted in the midst thereof, and let the rust of it be consumed.
In consequence, preachers, sent by Eleutherius, came into Britain, the effects of whose labours will remain for ever, although the rust of antiquity may have obliterated their names.
A youth more courtly than the rest, and who, polished, from a boy, by intercourse and familiarity with us, had rubbed off all the rust of Scottish barbarism.
Clambering up once more to the great valve, he hammered it until the rust that stiffened it was loosened.
It looked very worn and ancient; it was covered with patches of bluish rust or corrosion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rust" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
