Waugh's "A Handful of ___"

Usage examples of dust.

Ed Garrety had not called there, but we found an abo who had seen the dust streamer of a vehicle heading for the Walgun homestead shortly after sundown.

I liked the way the hem of her dress flapped over her legs, the dust coming aburst like a big gray flower all around her.

For instance, as dust and gas from the outer layers of nearby ordinary stars fall toward the event horizon of a black hole, they are accelerated to nearly the speed of light.

Then I noticed the dust cover for the acuity tester lying on the bench.

Clodius Afer demanded, dusting his palms as he strode back to the tribune.

In mounds and valleys and ridges and cones, it lay as albescent as bone dust.

Since it was important to have Ringo sing at least one song on each album, John dusted it off and Paul and Ringo wrote a new middle eight for it.

But is this secret knowledge, this mystical and alchemical awareness of the Feminine, also buried under the dust of centuries?

A dusting of snow floated down as Alec and Seregil rattled past in their cart.

What Alec could see of his face beneath the brim of his battered slouch hat was dark with stubble and dust.

Next he was on gravel, gaining speed again, spinning up a swirl of dust behind him as he drove on toward the house and barn, their structures now in dusk, the alpenglow abruptly gone, the sun behind the mountains.

Standing there in the darkness, high in the mountains of the altiplano, he remembered the dust of San Diego the day Flor Trujillo died.

The smell of dust and time was overcome by that of cinnamon and ambergris as they descended.

Elizabeth Ames knew that when the carriage door shut, when the last instructions were shouted out of the window, and when the frantically waving handkerchief disappeared in a cloud of dust, she would go inside, kick off her shoes, and succumb to the bliss of a cup of tea in the middle of the day.

Some kind of dire temperature inversion had clamped itself down over the city like a bell jar, trapping and concentrating the cocktail of dust, automobile exhaust, coal smoke, woodsmoke, manure smoke, and the ammoniated gasses that rose up from the stewn excreta of millions of people and animals.