"Dust-covered" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... theology on the Damascus road, when the voice bade him go and proclaim 'forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in Me' (Acts xxvi. 18). That is Luther's first claim on our gratitude, that he took this truth from the shelves where it had reposed, dust-covered, through centuries, that he lifted this truth from the bier where it had lain, smothered with sacerdotal garments, and called with a loud voice, 'I say unto thee, arise!' and that now the commonplace of Christianity is this: All men are sinful men, justice condemns us all, our ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture: The Acts • Alexander Maclaren
... stubbly upland pasture. Everywhere, in road and pasture too, thronged milkweed, odorous haunt of the bee and those frailest butterflies of the year, born of one family with drifting blossoms; and straightly tall, the solitary mullein, dust-covered but crowned with a gold softer and more to be desired than the pride of kings. Perhaps the carriage folk from the outer world, who sometimes penetrate Tiverton's leafy quiet, may wonder at the queer little enclosures ...
— Meadow Grass - Tales of New England Life • Alice Brown
... A grey twilight was struggling now through the high, dust-covered windows. Meekins, who had gone on towards the door, ...
— The Vanished Messenger • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... to the door that leads to the roofs, while Pietro Cagliacci himself wiped the dust-covered receiver on his apron and ...
— The Perils of Pauline • Charles Goddard
... look at her roll of music!" said Gethryn, wiping a few drops of blood from her pallid face, and glancing compassionately at the helpless, dust-covered figure. ...
— In the Quarter • Robert W. Chambers
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