Word: dust
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...flesh and the bones are but dry dust and stones...
...loud report of the gun almost stunned me. How long I remained thus I cannot tell. I know that the huge animal, with a groan, rolled over in the dust beside...
That chokes faith in its blinding dust - with clear...
...sleep . . . i' the dust, at last...
...when a young medical student suggested that a charge of dynamite would perhaps do the work. By this means the cocoa-nut was successfully cracked, and a small cavity, no larger than a tennis-ball, was laid open. The matter therein examined was viscous, sprinkled with a fine metallic dust resembling brass. One of the surgeons, a clever psychologist, thought that undue conceit had caused the viscosity of the brain tissues. Another attributed the contraction of the cerebral cavity to the course of study pursued by the Senior. A third, with a powerful microscope, found a small particle of knowledge...