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Sentences starting with dust

Dust and ashes these seventeen hundred years! [5]
Dust shrouded the sunset red of shaking rims; dust shrouded Tull as he fell on his knees with uplifted arms. [13]
Dust coat, gauntlets, goggles, cannot hide him; and if they did, some one would recognize that voice, familiar now and endeared to many, and so suited to command:--"Get that baggage off, and don't waste any time! [9]

Sentences ending with dust

The branch falls with the decay of its support, and must cling to the new growths around it, if it would not lie helpless in the dust. [6]
You will share with me the hope that the highwayman who stopped him may be brought to justice, though, indeed, your man Tardif left him behind in the dust. [11]
It was flooded with level, yellow rays of light that seemed to be searching the corners in vain for dust. [9]
And the dresser with her china and silver upon it, covered by years of dust. [9]
All these faces were gray with a coating of dust. [5]
The weather itself was uneasy, tepid, with long spells of hot wind and dust. [9]
The poppy leaf was not to flutter toward the sky, but to wither in the dust. [10]
His self- righteousness was levelled in the dust. [11]
A keen wind was blowing, and rushed against them fiercely: bleaching the hard ground, shaking the white frost from the trees and hedges, and whirling it away like dust. [12]
Occasionally, intruding faintly upon the countryside peace, she was aware of a distant humming sound that grew louder and louder until there shot roaring past her an automobile filled with noisy folk, leaving behind it a suffocating cloud of dust. [9]

Short sentences using dust

There it turns to dust. [5]
Any dust on her? [8]
They yielded no dust. [5]
Ashes, and dust, and ruin! [12]
And the dust! [10]
Dust! [13]

Sentences containing dust two or more times

In the crevices of Cyclopean walls, --in the dust where men lie, dust also,--on the mounds that bury huge cities, the wreck of Nineveh and the Babel-heap,--still that same sweet prayer and benediction. [6]
Her indolent nature in repose wanted the dust of existence swept into a corner out of sight; yet when she was roused, and there were no corners into which the dust could be swept, she could be as bold as any better woman. [11]
And the dust, gentlemen, the frightful dust. [10]
The artillery and baggage wagons moved noiselessly through the deep dust that rose to the very hubs of the wheels, and the infantry sank ankle-deep in that soft, choking, hot dust that never cooled even at night. [2]
Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust! [12]
Earth to earth, alas, and dust to dust! [9]

More example sentences with the word dust in them

The sweet violet you inclosed came safely to hand, but it was so dry, and mashed so flat, that it crumbled to dust at the first attempt to handle it. [7]
He remembered those years of superfluity with contempt, and as he puffed and panted on his way through the dust, he felt himself swell with satisfaction. [10]
I've done fine work in my time, but upon that day--not a cloud above, no dust beneath, a flowing tide, and a calm sea. [11]
In the room without, the envoy from Quebec had stood flicking the dust from his leggings with a scarf. [11]
Even the city, with its mass of stone and brick, rectangles, straight lines, dust, noise, and fever of activity, is penetrated by this divine suggestion of the renewal of life. [4]
He was covered with dust and debris, his lights went out, but he calmly stepped through the window. [9]
Saturday dawned clear, with a stiff March wind catching up the dust into eddies and whirling it down the street. [9]
Through the storm, which lashed her face with whirling clouds of dust and drops of rain, Barbara reached the little Prebrunn castle. [10]
Especially when the western sunshine streamed down over it all, turning even the dust of the atmosphere into gold and emblazoning the windows of the Tuileries with a sort of historic glory, his heart must have swelled within him in throbs of imperial exaltation. [4]
The aristocratic travellers were probably cleansing themselves from the dust of the road before they entered the taproom. [10]
In the bank-safe was half a peck of surface-gold--gold dust, grain gold; rich; pure in fact, and pleasant to sift through one's fingers; and would be pleasanter if it would stick. [5]
But, as it was a fair presumption that most colonial gentlemen made a visit home at least once in their lives, I did not allow the dust to get into my eyes. [9]
The long train wandered on under its shroud of dust, and stood still when it reached the Necropolis; then the sledge with the bier came back empty on red hot runners--but she was not one of the mourners--she was imprisoned in the pestiferous house. [10]
Faster and faster, vying with one another, they moved at the double or at a trot, vanishing amid the clouds of dust they raised and making the air ring with a deafening roar of mingling shouts. [2]
A shot from Venters, which missed the man but sent the dust flying over him made him run back to his horse. [13]
His dreams of vengeance were abruptly broken by a messenger, covered with dust from head to foot; he brought good news: Orion was taken and safely bestowed in the Kadi's house. [10]
The delicate scales used by the assayers were inclosed in glass cases intended to be air-tight, and yet some of this dust was so impalpable and so invisibly fine that it would get in, somehow, and impair the accuracy of those scales. [5]
The dust settled upon you in a thick ashy layer and turned you into a fakeer, with nothing lacking to the role but the cow manure and the sense of holiness. [5]
Struggling to get up, the mule kicked the candle out and smashed most of the kitchen furniture, and raised considerable dust. [5]
The dust kicked up by the crowd dimmed the few lamps and torches which had not by this time burned out or been extinguished, and an oppressive atmosphere of balsamic resin and spices met the brother and sister on the very threshold. [10]
The dreamer would undoubtedly have ridden past him; for the dust had already . [10]
Hid away close under the eaves she found an old trunk covered with dust and cobwebs. [6]
When I was twenty-three I wanted to squeeze the orange dry in a handful of years, and then go out suddenly, and let the dust of forgetfulness cover my bones. [11]
We took the train next morning and returned to Baden-Baden through fearful fogs of dust. [5]
Yes--on; still on towards the goal; away over ruins and stones, through blood and dust, till she bowed her proud neck, crushed and beaten, and sued for mercy. [10]
Once outside, he took to the white road, leaving a trail of dust behind him that a wagon might have raised. [9]
The little party took the steamer Gold Dust from St. Louis down river toward New Orleans. [5]
His keen eyes, too, failed, for the objects he tried to see blended with the dust of the road, the horizon reeled up and down before his eyes, and he felt as though the hard pavement had turned to a yielding bog under his feet. [10]
That would be too pleasant a compliment for me to tread in the dust. [7]
They are close together again--may the dust choke him! [10]
He understood how to unite work and pleasure; I, on the contrary, learned little on the wooden benches, for I rarely occupied them, and the dust of books certainly didn't spoil my lungs. [10]
There he meant to tell her, that they must again shake the dust from their feet. [10]
I was curious to know what the pink dust was. [5]
If he asked to kiss me, I should crumble into dust, as ashes dried in the sun crumble if you touch them with a finger, and I should be as much afraid of his lips as of a lion's. [10]
It was necessary to enter, but the smoke and dust which filled the air seemed to preclude this, and, besides, a high wall above the cleared space in the building threatened to fall. [10]
This man appeared to be in very good circumstances, for he always wore patent-leather boots, and a large diamond ring on his finger; but with his vivacious, even passionate temperament, he trampled in the dust the things I had always revered. [10]
To give birth to an idea--to discover a great thought--an intellectual nugget, right under the dust of a field that many a brain--plow had gone over before. [5]
The air-like the tingle of water from a mountain-spring in the throat of the worn wayfarer, bringing a sense of the dust of the world flushed away. [11]
Must it some time or other be moistened with tears, until it comes to life again and begins to stir in our consciousness,--as the dry wheel-animalcule, looking like a grain of dust, becomes alive, if it is wet with a drop of water? [6]
Then a ramble through the town, which is a quaint one, with interesting, crooked streets, and narrow, crooked lanes, with here and there a grain of dust. [5]
We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. [5]
They have no thought for the toiling or spinning, Striving for bread that is dust in the gaining, They have won all that is well worth the winning-- Past all distaining. [11]
It seemed as though the desert wind had buried all their courage and confidence in the dust it swept before it. [10]
At the base this vent was dark, cool, and smelled of dry, musty dust. [13]
The next minute they were only a sailing puff of dust on the far desert. [5]
The greatest of them lies in the fact that from under this very column was taken the dust from which Adam was made. [5]
But I forgot them both as I stood under the dome of the Invalides, and looked upon the massive receptacle which holds the dust of the imperial exile. [6]
The horses and their riders were covered with sweat and dust. [10]
Looking out of the window now into the quiet night, the watch-fires dotting the plain had a fascination for her greater than the wonder of the southern sky and its plaque of indigo sprinkled with silver dust and diamonds. [11]
Biberli's eloquence gained the victory in this case also, and though the groom led by the bridle another young stallion which the ex-schoolmaster might have mounted, he had walked cheerily beside the old monk, sweeping up the dust with his long robe. [10]
The smoke of the torches mingled with the dust stirred by a thousand feet, and the procession moved along, as it were, in a cloud, which also shrouded the multitude that followed. [10]
We hunted for the spring everywhere, traversing the full length of the island (two or three miles), and crossing it twice--climbing ash-hills patiently, and then sliding down the other side in a sitting posture, plowing up smothering volumes of gray dust. [5]
We could see the spots of dust where the bullets struck, spittin', spittin', spittin', and Lord knows how many hunderd more there was that didn't hit the ground. [11]
Sweetest spot beneath the skies When the canker-worms don't rise,-- When the dust, that sometimes flies Into your mouth and ears and eyes. [6]
Venters aimed to the side of the trail and sent a bullet puffing the dust beyond Jerry. [13]
But Jerry returned the shot, and his ball struck dangerously close in the dust at Wrangle's flying feet. [13]
There were still the same suffering, exhausted, and sometimes strangely indifferent faces, the same blood, the same soldiers' overcoats, the same sounds of firing which, though distant now, still aroused terror, and besides this there were the foul air and the dust. [2]
The Judge watched the proceeding grimly, choking now and again from the dust that was raised, yet uttering never a word. [9]
That splendid building, the pride of the city and the delight of men's eyes, destroyed--swept away like dust from the road! [10]
She was stirring the pot diligently, now and then sprinkling in what looked like a brown dust, and watching the brew intently. [11]
You, who knew the open book of her heart, you threw it in the dust. [11]
Her battle-flags bear the mold and the dust of centuries, her marts are deserted, she has shrunken far within her crumbling walls, and her great population has diminished to twenty thousand souls. [5]
Boris paused in the middle of the room, looked round, brushed a little dust from the sleeve of his uniform, and going up to a mirror examined his handsome face. [2]
Then, suddenly, upon the middle of the road was a little pool of blood and signs that a body had lain in the dust. [11]
Four curses are the local inheritance: droughts, dust, mud, and canker-worms. [6]
Where it is,--said the little man;--it will never come off, till it falls off from the bone in the darkness and in the dust. [6]
The dresses of the ladies were stained and soiled with dust and damp, but otherwise they seemed little the worse for the adventure, save that Mrs. Llyn was shaken, and her face was pale. [11]
I crawled about the ground, seizing and examining bits of stone, blowing the dust from them or rubbing them on my clothes, and then peering at them with anxious hope. [5]
Yellow dust like the gloom of the cave, but not so changeless, drifted away on the wind; the roar clapped in echo from the cliff, returned, went back, and came again to die in the hollowness. [13]
He looked at the glittering beaker, and then, with a flash of his grave, bright eyes, he added: "And if I am betrayed--if ten such as Ameni and Ani entice my people into a snare--I shall return home, and will tread the reptiles into dust. [10]
This surely was the ghost of Mahommed Selim-- this gaunt, stooping figure covered with dust. [11]
I was nearing the gate again, the dust flying from my moccasined feet, the sight of the stalwart Tom giving me courage again. [9]
Dan'l waits on the front door, and sometimes goes on an errand; and sometimes you'll see one or both of them letting on to dust around in here--but that's because there's something they want to hear about and mix their gabble into. [5]
Nothing grows in the flat, burning desert around it but weeds and the Dead Sea apple the poets say is beautiful to the eye, but crumbles to ashes and dust when you break it. [5]
He brushed off the dust with his coat-sleeve, and fondled it, shaking his head at it a little. [11]
Nettlewood Foyle watched the dust rising from the wheels of the stage, which had passed the elevator and was nearing the Prairie Home Hotel far down the street. [11]
They trample in the dust her fair name and my white hair!--Phryx, my hat and staff. [10]
She now blew the dust from the frame and canvas, and perceived the signature of the artist to whom the picture owed its origin. [10]
Time had sealed the door, and when at last it gave before my strength, a shower of dust quivered in the ray of sunlight from the window. [9]
Stephen stopped at the crest of the hill, in the white dust of the new-turned street, to gaze westward. [9]
He struggled against the confession of his weakness but dimly felt that he could not overcome it and that his former gloomy frame of mind, concerning vengeance, killing, and self-sacrifice, had been dispersed like dust by contact with the first man he met. [2]
At Virginia's bidding the Colonel ran downstairs for a bucket of fresh water, and she washed the caked dust from his face and hands. [9]
It was at the Boston Theatre, and while I was talking with them a very heavy piece of scenery came crashing down, and filled the whole place with dust. [6]
Long enough had the banner of their love been trailed in the dust. [9]
The chain on the ancles of the companions in suffering stirred the dust, which shrouded the little band like the grief, hate, and fear darkening the soul of each. [10]
So it is that woman continues to reign, where she has once got a foothold, long after her dear frame has become dust. [4]
So I fixed that as good as I could from the outside by scattering dust on the place, which covered up the smoothness and the sawdust. [5]
And I humbly thank Him to whom we are but as worms of the dust, that he has been pleased to call me to serve such men! [5]
The Misses Arbuser talked about the quality of the air, the variety of the scenery, the exhilaration of the drives, the freedom from noise and dust, the country quiet. [4]
Then shall beauty--Divinity taking outlines and color--light upon the souls of men as the butterfly, image of the beatified spirit rising from the dust, soars from the shell that held a poor grub, which would never have found wings, had not the stone been lifted. [6]
One image reigned supreme in his imagination, filling it with delight--it was that of the fairest woman, who, radiant in her royal dignity and trembling with pride, had thrown herself in the dust for his sake. [10]
The broken figures supporting the burden of the chimney-piece, though mutilated, were still distinguishable for what they had been--far different from the dust without--and showed sadly by the empty hearth, like creatures who had outlived their kind, and mourned their own too slow decay. [12]
The higher the sun rose the higher rose that cloud of dust, and through the screen of its hot fine particles one could look with naked eye at the sun, which showed like a huge crimson ball in the unclouded sky. [2]
The dust had subsided, and she could see a long distance, but the one person whom it was to lead back to her and to his people did not appear. [10]
Its groves, its streams, its houses, are haunted by undying memories, and its hillsides and hollows are made holy by the dust that is covered by their turf. [6]
It was a strange, silent ride through the stinging heat to Les Iles, the brown dust hanging behind us like a cloud, to settle slowly on the wayside shrubbery. [9]
And when the storm has blown out of your path the poor dust, which to-day lives and breathes, loves and despairs, grant it a place in your memory. [10]
Covered with dust, splashed from head to foot with mud, bruised, tortured as if on the rack, he clung to the saddle, yet never ceased to use whip and spur, and would trust his message to no other horseman. [10]
For she would soon fade, the dust would soon gather over her perished youth and beauty; but his success would live on, ever freshening in his sight, rising through long years to a great height, and remaining fixed and exalted. [11]
Your mouth will soon be filled with dust, and you will be forgotten. [11]

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