Without due diligence, though, "bad books just sort of sift in, like dust, " said Mr. McMurtry, who purges his collection at least once a year.
But it wasn't to Keegan, who launched himself into this televised rant, before going all King Lear and seeing a 12-point lead crumble and run through his fingers like dust.
The streets are full of some odd ash-like dust.
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Dominic Ponsford, editor of the Press Gazette, said editors like Mr Stokoe were "like gold dust".
Then it was coming down on us, like fine pollen, like yellow dust.
Though it looks like a modest dust mask, the N95 is a triumph of materials science.
The bottles were caked in dust like a good French wine kept in a traditional cellar.
Despite big promises, few air purifiers can rid your home of irritants like pollen, dust, and smoke.
And if the spa's gem associations are a stretch, they're comparable to what others are doing, like using diamond dust in anti-aging body treatments and here, for obvious reasons, sapphire dust as well (which felt great in a body cream but didn't have any discernible effect).
In the meantime, games like Shank 2, Dust, and hopefully Sacred Citadel have plenty to offer.
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Games like Planetside 2 and Dust 514 are MMOFPSs where multiplayer matches have weight and are threaded into a grand story of the universe.
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But modern would-be immortals know that old-fashioned cure-alls, like the ground mummy dust to which hopeful aristocrats turned in medieval times, were only so much quackery.
The danger from nuclear waste comes mainly from dust-like particles containing radioactive isotopes of iodine, cesium and strontium that could be released if the reactor fuel is allowed to become too hot.
Chilli, prepared to a recipe finalised in the kitchen here a century back, seasoned with the pequins and japones that gleam fiercely in the bushes behind the ranch-house, like rubies in the dust.
"A dust-devil looks essentially like what you would expect from the movies - a tiny tornado that is lifting dust, " explained Manuel de la Torre Juarez of Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and a scientist on the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (Rems) instrument.
They leave peanut butter, even the unhomogenized, non-Jif-like pastes, in the dust.
It was a time when phrases like "scrip, " "black lung" and "mining disaster" fell from the lips of workers, wives and children like the tar-colored dust that settled on their windowsills.
The symphonious clamor was everywhere, filling the sky like the cloud of red dust that arrowed past them to the south and left the sky dim, it was the great processional of the Union armies, but of no more substance than an army of ghosts.
Sounds like a job for the IBM pixie dust which featured in its adverts some years ago.
Directly below Fanny and Constance lived somebody who took flash photographs from his or her balcony, the bright quiet blast of light below them every now and then like a spill of phosphorescence, fairy dust, at their feet.
And the commission, sadly, seems like a classic congressional study, destined to gather dust on a bookshelf somewhere.
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Without Mr Jobs to sprinkle his star dust on the event, it felt like just another product launch from just another technology firm.
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Well if Protect DVD and other tools like it take off, you may have to dust off that old player and return it to its rightful home in your gear rack.
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Contrast that with the stench of failure in the drug industry, where experimental medicines are more likely to fail than succeed, and pharmaceutical developers like Pfizer have seen their biggest bets bite the dust.
In 1994, as the Mandela government came to power, Motsepe left the law firm and struck out on his own, hoping to build a business contracting low-level labor like sweeping, where workers use brooms to glean gold dust from the rock surface after industrial mining crews have done their work.
The dust is made of a honeycomb structure of cells like microscopic golf balls.
Moreover, many asteroids are chunky masses of rock and dust loosely held together by very little gravity, like loosely packed peanut clusters.
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