Sentence examples for returned to dust from inspiring English sources

Since the graves have been abandoned spruce branches have grown into the wood coffins, their roots smothering those long returned to dust.

These performances could not have had anything like the same impact in the traditional Mostly Mozart haunts: Avery Fisher Hall (even as modified for the festival) or the dry-as-dust Alice Tully Hall (at the moment returned to dust).

Harvey's legacy is restored, celebrated, and returned to dust each Labor Day.

If we keep going the way we're going we will be hollow ghosts haunting a corn husk moon, our civilization returned to dust.

I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you".

"I will return to dust," he said later.

"And having been dust and goop," he said, "it wants to return to dust and goop".

The hour glass That measures all our time in trickling dust Is also of dust and will return to dust — So an old poem says.

The hour glass That measures all our time in trickling dust Is also of dust and will return to dust— So an old poem says.

Ash Wednesday passed, and I was reminded that I was made of dust only and would return to dust as soon as life was done with me.

We heard the spare piano of David Lang's "Death Speaks" enter hesitantly, accompanied by a woman's high voice intoning, "You will return, return, to dust"; immediately, a mourning mood took hold.