It ranks next in Russia after the two capitals of the empire, but is not a desirable residence, being subject to hurricanes and other evils, of which dust is undoubtedly the greatest.

The Milky Way appears to him as the royal highway to heaven: "A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars.

The crowned monarch and the beggar sleep side by side, and their mingled dust is the sport of the winds of the heavens.

Bone dust is an excellent addition to the soil.

The dust of the battle-field is its smoke.

In dry weather the dust was even a worse plague than the mud.

"Dust to dust" should have been the motto of the Moroccan palace-builders.

He fought like a Trojan and struck like a god His dust is our ashes of glory.

Before I came to California I always supposed that gold dust was really dust, and about as fine as flour.

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

It is true that dust, in our towns and in our houses, is often not only a nuisance but a serious source of disease: while in many countries it produces ophthalmia, often resulting in total blindness.

Dust to dust is the great law, but so long as a phoenix rises from the ashes of decay, what right have we to murmur?

And I have sat upon ruins of ancient greatness, blackened by the age of centuries; and I have seen the living ruins of those ancient times, called men, roaming about the sacred ground, unconscious that the dust which clung to their boots, was the relic of departed demigodsand I rose with a deep sigh.

A learned French writer says: 'Dust here is a real calamity, a fiend-like persecutor that allows you not a moment's rest.

The sacred dust below, Was Dryden once; the rest who does not know.

Alexander] buried: Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is [Sidenote: to] earth; of earth we make Lome, and why of that Lome (whereto he was conuerted) might they not stopp a Beere-barrell? Imperiall Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, [Sidenote: Imperious] Might stop a hole to keepe the winde away.

The dust and sun is life and fun; The hot and sultry weather A higher zest gives every breast, Thus jumbled all together.

"The dust of travel here is clean desert

The gold dust we found here was coarser than it was where I worked before, down south on the Merced River.

In conclusion, we find that the much-abused and all-pervading dust, which, when too freely produced, deteriorates our climate and brings us dirt, discomfort, and even disease, is, nevertheless, under natural conditions, an essential portion of the economy of nature.