"Even when you leave London, you don't really leave London – you still carry it with you, like a thin layer of grime on your skin.
His muscles were oiled, then covered by a layer of grime — so that he would look like a toreador when he took his victory lap.
The clock still works, but splintered beams, dark water stains and a thick layer of grime are visible in the background.
When I found it recently, searching urgently for charcoal gray thread, I had to wipe a layer of grime from the lid.
But beneath this layer of grime is a tale of outside interference in Yemen that is likely to bring further conflict and exacerbate the divisions within the country.
Which is what La Sultana's spa feels like: a beautifully lit room with hydrotherapy bath and a hammam for scrubbing away that layer of grime.
Designed by Emery Roth and completed in 1926, the light-colored brick building appears to have exchanged some of its decorative moldings for a layer of grime.
Early on in the novel he catches himself using the picture restorer's metaphor of stripping away "layer after layer of grime" until he comes to "the very thing itself" - and laughs aloud.
The Catholic mission compound is a melee of men, women and many children, their colourful T-shirts and dresses wearing a layer of grime, some carrying bowls of food or firewood on their heads, some even restarting their lives with barber shops, cooking pots, food stalls, sewing machines and livestock.
Spanierman recalls that the painting was covered with a layer of grime and went completely unnoticed at the auction, so he picked it up for next to nothing.
Everything was covered with a thick layer of grime, from the old fashioned metal light fittings to door handles and banisters.
