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Our bodies are of the dust -- dusty, and bend dustward; but our souls floated down from the sardonyx walls of the Everlasting
St. Elmo 1872
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Most women! see! by the man's view dustward hurled,
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Our bodies are of the dust -- dusty, and bend dustward; but our souls floated down from the sardonyx walls of the Everlasting City, and brought with them a yearning maladie du pays, which should help them to struggle back.
St. Elmo. A Novel. Augusta Jane 1867
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_domnei_, of a religion pathetically dragged dustward by the luxuriance and efflorescence of over-passionate service, that Nicolas has touched in depicting Demetrios.
Domnei A Comedy of Woman-Worship James Branch Cabell 1918
Gammerstang commented on the word dustward
(adverb/adjective) - Towards death or the grave. --Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1897
April 22, 2018