When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
Write injuries in dust, benefits in marble.
Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust?
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
At the height of the Enron mania, the company's market value was $65 billion. Once the dust cleared, the final value was $0.
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Dust jackets are always something of an enigma to me.
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
The Woody Guthrie 'Dust Bowl' tunes were really fascinating.
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
Late 19th-century America was basically a plutocratic enterprise while people toiled in mines and died of coal dust poisoning.
Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.
Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.
Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.