7 Metaphors for rusting

You have come back,how strangeout of the grave; Its dreams are in your eyes, and still there clings Dust of the grave on your vainglorious hair; And a mysterious rust is on these rings The ring we gave each other, that young night When the moon rose on our betrothal kiss; When the sun rose upon our wedding day, How wonderful it was to give you this!

Iron rust is the result of the combination of the iron with oxygen, for which it has so great an affinity that it will decompose water to get oxygen to unite with; hence it is that iron utensils rust so quickly when not carefully dried after using, or if left where they can collect moisture.

Rust was the greatest donor and they named the school after him.

L, for instance, called el, was sounded le, &c. Philology is one of the keys of knowledge which, I think, admits of its being said that, although it is rather rusty, the rust is, however, a proof of its antiquity.

She had perceived that Rust was an English officer masquerading as a Frenchman, yet she could not have thought that he was a German spy.

Both as a pretended French officer, and as an English agent of the Secret Service, Rust was the most derisory of frauds.

I, her friend, know that she can feel deeply, and I can distinguish that which she simulates from that which moves her, but the poor creature Rust was in her hands the most helpless and deluded of victims.

7 Metaphors for  rusting