And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

When the dinner things are cleared away, the servant should sweep up the crumbs in the dining-room, sweep the hearth, and lightly dust the furniture, then sit down to her own dinner.

"I'm very sorry," said Hardy, as he reverently dusted the muff on his coat-sleeve before returning it.

I proceeded straight to the bar, where I discovered my acquaintance of the previous evening, in curl papers, assiduously dusting shelves and counter.

She would then, in the early morning, tidy and dust the studios and the office downstairs, lay the fire and carry up coals.

Alice trailed through the lower rooms, dusting furniture feebly; she gathered and arranged the flowers when there were any in the bed.

Within the shambling, ill-kept hotel, with its weather-stained exterior and its wind-twisted sign, the best room, paid for in advance and freshly dusted for the occasion, awaited an occupant.

"Awake!" cried a voice; and incontinently the dust of the path and the mould under the grass became insurgent.

Umbra mean literally "dust and shadow": the phrase, however, is quoted from Horace "pulvis et umbra sumus"we are dust and ashes.

"It is to be 'oped!" said he, absent-mindedly dusting the back of a chair.

When Jone and me came back after taking a long walk that morning I saw a pair of Church of England prayer-books, looking as if they had just been neatly dusted, lying on the parlor table, where they hadn't been before, for I had carefully looked over every book.

The books were nicely dusted, the comfortable stuffed rocking chair stood in its usual place where her father used to love to sit so well, and a splendid ottoman stood before it, which was usually her seat.

When she heard the postman's knock she was not even curious; so few letters came to her, she thought this must be Maggy Ann's monthly one from Aberdeen, and went on placidly dusting.

This obstinate silence galled Miss Philomela; and, after waiting full three minutes to see if Marcus would not answer, and meanwhile dusting prodigiously in his neighborhood, she said: "Well, it's some gratification to know that you do not have the hardihood to defend yourself.

"Yes." He dusted his hands together, slowly, spiritlessly.

" At this speech the Cobbler stared and gaped more than ever, for there was such a threshing of thoughts going on within his poor head that his wits were all befogged with the dust and chaff thereof.

What would you think then?" One of Chantry's hands, itself not over clean, dusted the ash off his vest absently.

One morning, when Marcus Wilkeson returned home from a ramble, he found his half-sister Philomela violently dusting the furniture and books of the snug little back parlor.

When finally, Hosea Brewster knocked the ashes out of his stubby black pipe, dusted his sooty hands together briskly and began to peel his overalls, Pinky came forward.

"I hate to bother you, miss," said the black cook, approaching her mistress the next morningBillie, by the way, was busily dusting the living-room with a very becoming dust cap perched on top of her pretty hair, "but this is mah day out.

"You just wait till you hear the worst of it," answered Potts, as he confidingly dusted the shoulder of Westley's coat.

Then fastidiously dusting the back of one hand, he kissed it audibly.