| 单词 | dross |
| 例句 | I fancied that a malevolent Rumpelstiltskin crept into my room at night and undid my best work, turning the gold of my efforts into pathetic dross on a wheel perversely spinning backward. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “I’m the last of a great breed. You are the last of the scum and dross.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Throughout our history, the pure gold of this vision has been heavily alloyed with the dross of materialistic aims. The Great Gatsby and the American dream 2012-05-25T07:00:01Z Even so, society needs reporters like Hersh — skeptics who take nothing on trust and who go to exhaustive lengths to dig beneath the thick veneer of gloss, dross, fakery and spin. Seymour M. Hersh — the Journalist as Lone Wolf 2018-06-13T04:00:00Z The British filmgoer is perpetually bombarded with dreary mediocre fare, or out-and-out dross – and yet, mysteriously, some really fascinating Cannes films, genuinely brilliant or bizarre, never make it over the Channel. The Cannes film festival in my head 2010-05-11T09:53:00Z And so it made a certain sense that it was her good goods that fetched the best prices on Saturday, while his brown wood furniture and filched hotel ashtrays sold as so much sentimental dross. The Gimlet Eye: Trading on Sentiment at Dominick Dunne?s Estate Sale 2010-11-25T05:00:00Z It's a fair bet that literary critics were shaking their heads at the amount of dross in the bestseller lists and lamenting the state of the novel back in the 1920s. In search of a good read | John Crace 2010-03-17T13:30:00Z The percentage of dross on TV has increased; there's very little that's radical or experimental. Portrait of the artist: Sanjeev Bhaskar, actor and comedian 2010-04-05T21:05:00Z Downton Abbey needs to work out whether enjoyable dross can be sustained over this many series. Downton Abbey: plot moving slowly? It must be time for someone to die 2012-12-26T12:22:58Z "There is some real dross in there," Lindsay confessed. Why the writing was on the wall for My Family 2011-03-25T14:26:02Z After all, we've turned to companies like Google and Facebook largely because of their ability to cut through the endless dross of the web and deliver the one right hit. Bursting the Bubble: Are We Isolated in a World Wide Web of One? 2011-05-16T19:05:00Z There was the inevitable early- career dross – Vin Diesel's A Man Apart, Gone in 60 Seconds, et al – but some creditable indie roles as well, in The Safety of Objects and Coastlines. Timothy Olyphant: a law unto himself 2010-04-29T19:00:00Z But, like a wiseguy fitted with a cement overcoat, it has landed thunderously in the middle of the autumn season, blowing away the rest of the awards-bait dross. Robert De Niro and Al Pacino: 'We’re not doing this ever again' 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z You spend all day shut in a room, being fed a never-ending stream of soggy dross served up by a procession of idiots who are there only to be on telly. How to be ? a cookery show judge 2011-03-01T14:53:00Z If you’re like me, only getting far away from all that allows you to shake off the dross. Personal Journeys: A Case for Getting Far, Far Away 2013-05-16T17:46:20Z Beyond the polemical intensity of the Fridericianum, the show loses coherence and often subsides into dross. Art Review: Documenta 13 in Kassel, Germany 2012-06-14T21:44:01Z Anyway: there it is, a lilt, a mischief, a confidence of tone – maybe this is what hope sounds like? – that tells you this is not dross. Radio review: The Castle 2010-07-14T23:05:00Z But amid the commercial dross, three new releases are worth their weight in mistletoe. A Classical Christmas, Across the Centuries 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Even a drunk Don Draper would be embarrassed to pitch such meaningless dross. Perspective | Beeple’s digital ‘artwork’ sold for more than any painting by Titian or Raphael. But as art, it’s a great big zero. 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z To recap, Mitchell wrote a column saying he disagreed with the idea of the government regulating the press; Coogan responded calling it “ill-informed and superficial dross”. David Mitchell: ‘I see myself as a coward’ 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z Unless we recover our sense of moral values and differentiate the real from the dross, we may, amid our plenty, become a glossy, sterile desert.” Hudson Yards Is Manhattan’s Biggest, Newest, Slickest Gated Community. Is This the Neighborhood New York Deserves? 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Scanning the dross adds dramatic punch to the best works, which flare into consciousness as little cinematic bursts of powerful insight. 'Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album' buoyed by photos with cinematic insight 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z It's wiser to keep a museum open by the sale of dross than to close it. The conversation: Should councils sell off art to raise money? 2011-03-19T08:30:00Z Over in Coronation Street , a cheery tram crash with multiple deaths is planned for late this year to clear the pipes of dross. World of lather 2010-07-30T23:03:00Z Their solid amalgams of pop, soul, rock and even light electronica had been breaking through the dross for a few years. Riff: ‘Thriller’ and the Lessons of the Mega-Super-Album 2012-09-02T03:22:06Z In the arts, it takes a lot of dross to glean some gold. Move over, coffee: It's playwrights' day in the sun in Seattle 2012-09-05T22:38:04Z But the result of this is to make us see more sharply the difference between what really matters and all the dross and nonsense that clutters up life. In praise of cynicism 2013-07-10T17:27:31Z This is art in general, a comment on today's world, a satire on excess, a groovy collection of dross and waste. Sculpture's lost in the third dimension 2010-05-12T20:35:00Z The city architects who could once have stemmed the tide of dross have long been sacked. A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain by Owen Hatherley 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z Nora turned dross to gold and didn’t hold on to rancor. Nora Ephron’s Hollywood Ending 2012-06-27T22:28:16Z But whether we are looking for Tortoise Creek among the dross of the supermarket shelf or springing for an inexpensive case of top-quality cabernet from de Négoce, there are bargains to be found — and savored. Bargains on quality California wine exist, if you know where to look 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Maybe it is the sheer relief of a drama with high production values among a sludge of other Christmas dross. TV review: Restless; The World's Most Dangerous Roads; Restoration Man 2012-12-27T22:00:01Z Many complain about the dross Big Hollywood produces, the dreck that major networks air, the vacuity of big-time industrial pop music — products that require mass audiences to pay back their investment. TV's new microaudiences are shaking up the business 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z If you are a romance fan, however, you also know that putting up with cinematic dross is part of the price to be paid. 'If I Stay' asks life-and-death questions, with love as a referee 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Bhatnagar’s algorithms use a clever mix of data mining and pattern matching to build sonnets from the dross of the Twittersphere. The Mechanical Muse 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z You're dealing with so much dross: you have to say things like: 'The record went to number three in the charts.' The best books on the Beatles 2012-09-26T07:00:15Z That said, the draws far outnumber the dross at this restaurant. Soi 38 brings the tastes of Thailand to vivid life He just seems incapable of distinguishing it from dross. Dance Review: Complexions Contemporary Ballet at the Joyce - Review 2011-11-23T00:17:41Z Good actors making poor choices — especially when the actor is Nicolas Cage — is nothing new, but I worry that the dross in his career ledger is rapidly outpacing the gold. Review: In ‘Pay the Ghost,’ Nicolas Cage Is on a Mission 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z While film has been somewhat unfairly maligned as a shallow garbage truck for dross about mall cops and talking chipmunks, it’s worth taking a slightly revisionist view of television. Grace of Monaco's Emmy nominations show film still has standards TV doesn't 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z “The dross of everyday life is very, very powerful and very strong. So you need to protect your special relationship with your music.” André Watts, Pioneering Piano Virtuoso, Dies at 77 2023-07-14T04:00:00Z Even at a time of year when movie companies typically unload their dross, the sheer awfulness of Dito Montiel’s “The Clapper” stands out. Review: Finding Unwanted Fame in ‘The Clapper’ 2018-01-25T05:00:00Z But for those who do, this mass dosage of unusual offerings is a respite from the glut of predictable Hollywood dross. Fantastic Fest 2016: cannibals, floating heads and Dolph Lundgren 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z Excellent credentials as far as I'm concerned, much better than low-budget dross from studios, like The Asylum, an example of people making a career out of being substandard. Why I'm looking forward to Birdemic: Shock and Terror 2010-05-26T14:19:00Z At one point, Goldbach trains in the Hot Dip Galvanizing Line, skimming dross off a vat of molten zinc. Utility Worker No. 6691 on Life Inside a Steel Mill 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z First, for every ten terrible Leno or Letterman interview, there was one that refreshingly cut through the dross. Fallon’s fallacy: What we lose, and gain, as talk shows abandon the “talk” 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Fox is clearly doing its best to talk the new film up as a continuation of Scott's Alien adventure rather than the dross that came later. Can Ridley Scott's Alien prequels be a new species of follow-up? 2010-10-14T14:33:00Z Fortunately there's plenty of dross to get stuck into. Hatewatching: shouting about rubbish TV on Twitter 2012-06-22T23:05:00Z Convinced that most cultural output was dross, Gibson was on a mission to battle mediocrity. Diana Gibson, mercurial mentor on L.A.'s stage scene, dies at 69 2014-08-03T04:00:00Z Set in rough quarters of Chicago, the film offers a brawny, clear-eyed perspective — urban without Los Angeles or New York glossy dross — and an overcast aesthetic to match. | 'Go for It!': Hip-Hop for Life 2011-05-13T22:43:02Z But pretty swiftly, it became clear — courtesy of both gems and dross — that criminality, heroic and otherwise, would preoccupy most of these movies, many of them made by Black men. 8 Ways a Modern Civil Rights Movement Moved the Culture 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z In among the dross there are revelations, there are magnificent descriptions, there is writing of remarkable force and power. Sons and Lovers: a bad book by a very good writer 2013-06-20T15:35:02Z Plenty of good, inexpensive Bordeaux is out there, but those bottles are hard to pick out from the dross. How to Sell Good, Inexpensive Wines Without Pandering 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Having built one or two gems among the dross is hardly exclusive to Derry. Derry has built bridges – but its industry won't come back 2013-06-21T10:00:49Z Soon, smart nanobots may cruise your bloodstream, removing a lifetime’s accumulated dross, even pushing back the clock of years. How will the world end? 2012-06-17T19:00:00Z Among the dross we also found a few gems. Where not to spend your bank holiday: a guide to Britain's worst days out 2011-08-20T23:06:23Z Fired up, as ever, with total enthusiasm for the next book, I immediately wrote UoW off as contemptible dross not worth bothering about. Use of Weapons by Iain M Banks 2012-08-03T21:55:05Z Bourbon Street was a disappointment, with its tourist dross, sleazy clubs and drunken gaggles clutching cocktails. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z Black found himself being snubbed, derided by those who thought the money he was earning was disgusting, especially for films they considered to be dross. Iron Man 3 marks a Marvel-lous return for Shane Black 2013-04-19T13:00:00Z But to appreciate the treasure it becomes, you have to understand the dross from which it came. Is "Camp Isn't Home" one of the year's best movie songs? Is it, kind of? Kind of, it is 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z "When one has paid tribute to their ability to turn such dross into gold, a major question remains. If they win at Wembley, what will it do to English football?" The girl in the Gang - being Wimbledon's physio 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z He will target the dross that inevitably accumulates in any large firm — the business practices that don’t make sense, the operations that don’t make money, and the workers who don’t make a good fit. Opinion | Just when you thought Musk’s Twitter foray couldn’t get wilder 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z "They have chosen to be guided by a Christianity hammered free of the dross of the modern world," Gonzalez wrote. "Traditional" Catholics and white nationalist "groypers" forge a new far-right youth movement 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Buddy you're the boss man, dross man, Take another loss, there's no positive gloss Sunday, You got staff to debase, you're in last place, Gotta hire lawyers to help with your case. Style Invitational Week 1479: It’s WordleVite! 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z People could craft things and put them up and what ended up happening was you had this tidal wave of complete... well, I’m not going to say dross, but I just did. Peter Molyneux’s NFT game will make being nice cost real money 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Crane’s work was, considering his youth and all the dross in it, unfinished. Review: Why is Paul Auster so obsessed with Stephen Crane? Find out in 800 pages 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z He says just coming to the stadium on a matchday is enough to start getting excited — "after 14 years of absolute dross" — about the prospect of exciting times ahead. Hope, conflicted morality as Newcastle fans welcome Saudis 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z Some conservative Catholics have embraced the groypers, arguing that they "have chosen to be guided by a Christianity hammered free of the dross of the modern world." "Traditional" Catholics and white nationalist "groypers" forge a new far-right youth movement 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z He says just coming to the stadium on a matchday is enough to start getting excited — “after 14 years of absolute dross” — about the prospect of exciting times ahead. Hope, conflicted morality as Newcastle fans welcome Saudis 2021-10-17T04:00:00Z From that base Barris would become the self-proclaimed “King of the Kustomizers,” employing the best of the best of California automotive artisans to turn Detroit dross into Hollywood gold. The custom auto shop behind Hollywood's most iconic cars may be closing 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Splendid, we get another 30 minutes of this fairly turgid dross after Andy Carroll squandered two good chances to win it for Newcastle. Arsenal v Newcastle goes to extra time: FA Cup third round – live! 2021-01-09T05:00:00Z Move beyond those content-consumption apps and into the games library and you’ll find a lot more dross and a lot less premium content than you would in the Google Play Store. Fire HD 8 Plus review: the Amazon appliance 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Sales typically reward formula and facility more than artistic power; history is full of masterpieces undersold in their own times and prize-winning blockbusters now remembered as dross, if at all. James Gray’s Journey from the Outer Boroughs to Outer Space 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Poor #michaelrice A great young talent, lovely guy, better song than the dross that won #Eurovision But after 3 years of Brexit farce, Europe thoroughly despises the UK & the country was always coming last. Is Brexit to blame for UK Eurovision flop? 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z This new old form, which would define television comedy well into the present century, would of course produce plenty of dross and dreck, along with a wealth of well-executed, perfectly enjoyable middlebrow entertainments. ‘The Big Bang Theory’ is ending, but we shouldn't let multi-cam sitcoms die. Here's why 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z About 70% of artefacts leaving Syria are fake, according to the country's director of antiquities, but amidst the dross there are some very expensive items. 'Loot-to-order' antiquities sold on Facebook 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z Republicans unleashed the refiner’s fire of moral judgement and found their own dross rather than just the Democrats’. Dems grow uneasy with their new moralism 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z No reporter can go to the scene of a dozen events per day, observe what happens, interview those affected, sort the meaning from the dross and file a story. Opinion | Twitter is the crystal meth of newsrooms 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z Compared with last season’s dross, Marco Silva’s brand of football has been a proper breath of fresh air. Premier League fans’ half-term verdict. Part one: Arsenal to Huddersfield 2018-12-23T05:00:00Z “Vox Lux,” which takes its name from Celeste’s sixth album, a collection of forgettable power-pop dross, never does anything with its most intriguing themes: the commodification of tragedy and the hollowness of fame. Review | In ‘Vox Lux,’ Natalie Portman gets top billing but is upstaged by an actress you’ve never heard of 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z But the entire middle section of “Kin” turns that golden introductory idea into dross. Review | The cool finale of ‘Kin’ can’t save the cliches that preceded it 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z Similar failures on the other side of the Atlantic proved that balance sheets everywhere were full of dross signed off as gold. The financial scandal no one is talking about 2018-05-29T04:00:00Z Bullins said when he leads others to rummage through dross and dregs it’s like starting a fire. Dumpster diving delivers dividends for Benjamin Bullins 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Everyone remembers the great novels of the 19th century and no one remembers the literal mountains of dross published alongside it. Zadie Smith: ‘I have a very messy and chaotic mind’ 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z “We need to get rid of some of the dross who got put here for political reasons.” Talk About Peer Pressure! U.K.’s House of Lords Prepares to Get Smaller 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z All of which is all well and good but tends to brush over the fact that 95% of the Premier League matchday experience is huff, puff and dross. The Premier League teams’ ineptitude index 2016-17 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z The power of the film is cumulative, as the filmmaker spins a mesmerizing morality tale from the dross of daily life. Review | In ‘Graduation,’ daily tensions gather force to create a socio-philosophical thriller 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z And then on page 227: “The voice set in the writing overwhelmed me… It was completely cleansed of the dross of speech.” Elena Ferrante: ‘I believe that books, once written, have no need of their authors’ 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z Yet, even amongst the hours of dross, there was this significant new development. The ever-growing power of China’s Xi Jinping - BBC News 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z These are serene, uncluttered spaces that dismiss the dross and bubble up the best for whoever wanders in. The New Breed of Stores That Feel Like Chic Apartments 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Tiwari says he suspects all the fashion dross he surveys reflects the fickleness, and wealth, of Western consumers. Fast-Fashion Cast-Offs Fuel Global Recycling Network 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z Sunderland, based in the northeastern industrial city of the same name, regularly persuades crowds of forty thousand or more to watch a brand of soccer that fans elsewhere might consider dross. The Kings of Seventeenth Place 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Acquirers, as one analyst puts it, only want the family silver, not the dross. Core ores 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z Subtractive tourism, on the other hand, is about removing the dross that is distracting you from your true self. How to Feel Like a Castaway 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Where do Republicans get that special talent for turning gold to dross? Take the winnings and run 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Yet amid all the hemming and hawing over the league’s near comical parity, in the end something resembling quality yet again shone through the dross of week-to-week results. MLS previews: 'Decision Day' for Seattle, Sporting and San Jose 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z They go to Tronna on Saturday night, and the Canadians, despite being in fifth, have the record of classic mid-table dross: 13 wins, 13 defeats, 52 goals scored, 52 conceded. MLS weekend preview: Sounders and Galaxy ready for center stage 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z A spinner bowling dross, a keeper who cannot catch, fielders spilling the ball, combined with an opener who cannot open. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z There is gold among the dross, but for the most part it is a cacophony of cranks and gurus. Hey, investment cranks: The Internet never forgets 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z “That’s kind of the gold, the rest is dross,” he said. Complications Cloud Possibility of a Movie Based on ‘Watchman’ 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Those moments of brilliance shine only because they are surrounded, frequently, by dross. The Premier League clubs’ ineptitude index shows there is nowhere to hide | Tom Bryant 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z If they gave less space to electioneering, they would be less dependent on dross to fill it. A Point of View: Art v politics 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z A spinner bowling dross, a keeper who cannot catch, fielders spilling the ball, combined with an opener who cannot open. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Most of the time, the musicians honored in The Wrecking Crew were working on dross and jingles, the daily diet of session men everywhere. Behind the Music Behind the Music: 'Wrecking Crew' Played Pop's Biggest Hits 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z Among all the dross, the poorly targeted pitches, the incomprehensible gobbledegook there is still the occasional gem. Is email broken? 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z And many websites have emerged on which customers can buy drugs and review their purchases, exposing vendors who peddle dross. No junk 2015-02-05T05:00:00Z Everything in the feed, or timeline, is presented in reverse chronological order, with no easy way to find the diamonds among the dross. Twitter Displays Its Value With Instant Timeline for New Users 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z This is utter dross, yet another one pitched up and Wood pushes him straight back down the ground for a couple more. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z In 2012, April Pierce, an Oxford graduate student, was sitting in the English Faculty Library, working on “some insufferable literary-critical dross.” Oxford’s Marginalia Obsession | The New Yorker 2014-12-08T05:00:00Z It is as though the man who in 2008 was seen to have the touch of King Midas - the man who could turn base metal into 24-carat gold - can now only turn things into dross. Jon Sopel: Can US politics be fixed? 2014-11-03T05:00:00Z Images of kittens, puppies, all the world’s fuzzy wuzzy critters, bombard the Internet, so meaningful animal photography risks getting lost in the dross. A Photographer's Guide to Nocturnal Life 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z Mantel has a great eye for the dross and dreck of urban and suburban life – the "crapola", as Philip Roth calls it – and it's a joy to follow her around as she observes it. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher review – Hilary Mantel's new collection 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z This is utter dross, yet another one pitched up and Wood pushes him straight back down the ground for a couple more. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, fourth Test, day two – as it happened 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z If there is one lesson to be learned from the mix of bargains and dross on Alibaba’s e-commerce sites, it is “buyer beware”. Out of control 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Occasionally, however, in all the journalistic dross, a true diamond gleams through. A Mystery Man Leads China's Push Into Africa 2014-08-11T04:00:00Z You pick the order; you decide exactly how much dross is in there. The album is dead, long live playlists 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z I understand many sensible sorts view Dolan as a reverse alchemist, with an unfailing ability to convert gold to dross. On Pro Basketball: Jackson Offers a Glimmer of Hope at Dolan’s Palace 2014-03-15T21:16:34Z The governor is skilled at turning his opponent’s golden rhetoric to dross. Gotham: Plenty of Reminders of Populism’s Limits 2014-01-02T02:35:05Z And with an increasingly crowded, warming world, we are far less interested these days in transforming dross into precious metals than we are in developing solutions that allow us to create a sustainable future. Transforming Materials Design with Supercomputing 2013-11-19T18:45:02.320Z Alas, it turned to dross when the housing bubble popped. Government profits from Ally? Go figure! 2013-07-01T22:32:00Z The atomic revolution now seems so much neophiliac dross, with built-in nightmares. The digital revolution? It's all a gift to the power of the state 2013-05-15T06:00:40Z Or he might try to turn Carmelo Anthony in a triangle-offense star, which could be only a little bit more difficult than turning dross into gold. On Pro Basketball: Jackson Offers a Glimmer of Hope at Dolan’s Palace 2014-03-15T21:16:34Z There is also near endless provision of dross that can be easily ignored, and ugly and offensive opinions that probably should be. No comments? No thank you 2013-03-03T12:00:01Z “The data are ugly and sparse, and the magic — the science — is turning that dross into gold,” says Kohane. Big biology: The ’omes puzzle 2013-02-27T18:20:44.453Z There is no better way to unearth a plausible structural gem from the dross of incomplete data than by using one of those new neural network-enhanced quantum genetic algorithms. Virtual shock 2013-01-24T00:15:00.210Z Time to buy them a drink or compliment them on their latest piece of reality TV dross. So You're a Scientist Wanting to Write a Popular Science Book? 2013-01-04T12:45:02.857Z This phantom chase was at its most frantic in the financial markets, where banks took dross and sold it as gold. Cable promises takeover scrutiny 2012-11-22T15:37:49Z Ours is a disillusioned age when sluggers on steroids retrospectively get defrocked and Lance Armstrong’s string of trophies turns to dross. Apple Ain't The Next Polaroid 2012-11-12T23:03:42Z Strauss b Morkel 20 Another pearl to follow the early dross from Morkel, pitched on off or an inch outside and cut back in through the gate to knock over off and middle. England v South Africa - live! 2012-08-17T12:04:29Z Performance-wise, in isolation this 90 minutes was really no better than any of the dross they served up two years ago in South Africa. Euro 2012: Woeful France must rediscover their best for Spain game 2012-06-20T13:24:10Z There was, as ever, some wondrous tennis, but way too much dross. French Open 2012: Andy Murray runs out of steam against David Ferrer 2012-06-06T19:47:34Z A friendless childhood was followed by a period of Sturm und Drang, till the dross had been purged away and the pure gold of his being displayed. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z Consider any major finance disaster of the past 30 years, and what you will invariably see is the result of trying to spin dross into gold. JPMorgan?s debacle, and its parallels to AIG 2012-05-20T02:11:42Z The music is unidentifiable dross but the branch offers free Wi-Fi. Store Wars: McDonald's and Burger King 2012-05-18T10:08:35Z Islam, freed from all the dross which it accumulated in its course, has precisely these conditions, and already small communities of European converts to Islam have been founded in England and America. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z They had offered him, Dafydd, their dirty dross in exchange for Song, and had bidden him stoop to pick it up.... Mushroom Town 2012-04-21T02:00:25.923Z There are pleasures that seem so unalloyed by selfish, earthly dross, we almost feel the breath of heaven fanning our spirits while we mingle in them. I've Been Thinking; or, the Secret of Success 2012-04-18T02:00:11.437Z His advice: "Try to find a balance in which I can discard the dross and select the essentials." Successful CEOs Don't Have to Be Jerks 2012-04-05T11:10:38Z With tender hands she gradually remolded his wayward, eccentric nature, stripping away much of its dross, bringing out its cleaner, nobler traits. Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z Philip, on thee the glowing ray Of heaven came down upon thy prayer, To melt thy heart, and burn away All that of earthly dross was there. Walks in Rome 2012-03-31T02:00:36.010Z The Record called it some of Mr. Ruskin's dross; but it is other people's dross, for which he would offer us pure gold. Letters to the Clergy On The Lord's Prayer and the Church 2012-03-29T02:00:12.080Z Every other hope is dross compared to this. The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians 2012-03-20T02:00:11.133Z I thought of my sweet Giulia, and wondered at her beauty and charm; it was all so much clearer and cleaner than the dross I saw around me. The Making of a Saint 2012-03-16T02:00:25.243Z And ere I sailed to fight in France There did I often woo Romance, Searching for jewels in the dross, Along the road to Charing Cross. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, June 21st, 1916 2012-02-21T03:00:19.417Z No earthly dross there, no foul, fierce, passions, rending and corrupting the soul. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z In the future the senate must be upright, zealous, independent, incorruptible; English gold must be as dross; an English coronet hold no allurement. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z The childless old man would die, having saved at least his honour, and to the paltry dross of this world his sovereign lord was welcome. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z Other religions were put in the crucible of criticism, and nothing was found but dross. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z It endeavors to transmute the very gold of love into the dross of shame and crime. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z The dross must be rejected; and only that be retained which is in exact harmony with the brain and heart of the greatest and the best. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 5 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:49.813Z The sacred books of all the world are worthless dross and common stones compared with Shakespeare's glittering gold and gleaming gems. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z From love, from friendship, country, torn, To memory's fond regrets the prey: Vile slave, thy yellow dross I scorn! The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z But what originally was the outgrowth of superstition has now, to a great extent at least, been purified of its dross and converted into mere poetry. The Moral Instruction of Children 2012-02-02T03:04:33.057Z With the Bible they separated the gold from the dross. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z For this end, disrepute and poverty are advantageous, in so far as they drive back the man upon himself, increasing his self-control and purifying his intellect from the dross of the external. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" 2012-01-31T03:00:17.257Z If all there is is naught but dross, We want to know and bear our loss. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Beneath our feet are the badges of worldly pomp and glory, the graves of Kings and Nobles and Knights; all in the Presence of God as dross and worthlessness. The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries 2012-01-28T03:00:21.937Z For Saturn, who is Time, is the trier of all things; he devoureth all the dross; only that escapeth which in its nature is ethereal and destined to reign. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z Perhaps we have gone wrong in thinking too little of such dross, and being puffed up with spiritual pride. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z O Blessed Jesus, do thou purify and cleanse my soul from the dross of sin, which I feel still hinders me from enjoying the light of thy countenance. The Pilot's Daughter an account of Elizabeth Cullingham 2012-01-12T03:00:15.090Z America was the great “melting-pot” of the nations, out of which was to flow—was, in fact, actually flowing—a new and better type of man, purged of all slag and dross. The Unpopular Review, Number 19 July-December 1918 2012-01-09T03:00:24.167Z If we put the material into the fire as a stone, we should probably receive it back as slag or dross. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z The will of God is the alchemic crucible: and the dross which is cast therein is matter. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z Tested in the crucible of honest criticism, little remains of their statements save the dross of falsehood and error. Abraham Lincoln: Was He A Christian? 2011-12-24T03:07:56.830Z Its gold becomes as dross and its pleasures less than the morning dew. Memoirs of Mrs. Rebecca Steward 2011-12-24T03:07:54.433Z All the scum and dross comes to the top and makes an ugly mess, but the frothing up clarifies the rest. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z We are rather the more justified in the hope that all true knowledge of science will be a help to religion, and will serve as the means of purifying religion from the dross of superstition. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z And the dross shall become pure gold, seven times refined; even perfect spirit. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z One refers, of course, to the attempt to transfer bodily to the lyric stage, for purposes of serious expression, a contemporary subject, with all its inevitable dross of prosaic and trivially familiar detail. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z Only what they had always treated as dross, refuse, and vanity, and which now falls into its true home of oblivion, after being so long the sport of their contempt. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Then take the beads out of the cupel and clean them of dross. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angels' love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross. The Golden Link of Friendship 2011-11-13T03:00:11.967Z But he knows that to be gold which others take to be dross. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z But "happy is the man whom God correcteth," for after all we are not fit for heaven until all the dross hath been tormented out of us, leaving the pure gold for his kingdom. A Tale of the Kloster A Romance of the German Mystics at the Cocalico 2011-11-11T03:00:32.153Z Even now, there be intelligences around us, which the corporeal eye seeth not, nor can see, unless purged from the dross, the fumes of mortality. The Legendary and Poetical Remains of John Roby author of 'Traditions of Lancashire', with a sketch of his literary life and character 2011-11-07T02:00:18.317Z The dross which adheres to the wood and the charcoal, having been collected, is re-smelted in the furnace. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Piety does not feel content without a little dust, dirt, and dross. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z They are all dross; there is in them no redeemable element. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z Her years in the open had developed a sense of perception that was keen to separate the dross from the pure gold of human intent. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z He looks for truth and finds it, and lets it ripen into expression in his mind, and we get the good after the smelting process has completed its work, and the dross all worked off. Rambles with John Burroughs 2011-10-22T02:00:31.317Z And if they are not satisfactorily purified from dross, they are taken out and cooled and broken into pieces; and the vitreous pieces are heated in pots in the same furnace. De Re Metallica, Translated from the First Latin Edition of 1556 2011-11-16T03:00:21.977Z Gold has no power over me: I regard it as dross; and when I could easily have won it, I neglected the opportunity. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason 2011-10-15T02:00:27.517Z How beautiful she was, how fair a picture of almost girlish innocence and freedom from all worldly dross or care! A Trooper Galahad 2011-10-12T02:00:53.977Z My gain is loss, Mine honour is dross,— And I am the queen of Astrofelle! Love Letters of a Violinist and Other Poems 2011-10-08T02:00:23.627Z This life's given me the power of making money, but it's yellow dross, and I hate it. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z I had no gold to offer there for her tinsel and dross—for the ashes and mud that had been flung at me. The Claw 2011-08-31T02:01:30.563Z Scientific wealth, and the dross called gold, mayhap even diamonds, mayhap precious stones of a kind not yet known to the world. In the Land of the Great Snow Bear A Tale of Love and Heroism 2011-08-31T02:01:29.827Z Gold is refined of its adhering dross by fire. Hot corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated 2011-08-31T02:01:20.473Z And now he was scattering the treasure which she had thought hers at the feet of another woman who, she believed, had not sought it and to whom it was dross. Jane Oglander 2011-08-30T02:00:38.717Z I have not failed in finding some true gold from all that you sneer at as tawdry dross!... The Adventures of a Widow A Novel 2011-08-25T02:00:27.403Z Money is dross, Loving is loss, There's never a crown that is worth its cross. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z You have all the laws of God and man on your side; when he or his accomplices offer you his dross, it is but saying no, and you are safe. Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z She is purest gold among all this dross. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z But, ah! there was one, a face turned to the rafters of the attic, whose bright eyes and red lips knew love untinctured by the dross of the world. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z They were all gazing upon her, but the dross was clean, purified out of them. The Women of the Confederacy 2011-08-05T02:00:53.333Z Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye are all become dross, behold, therefore, I will gather you into the midst of Jerusalem. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z And do you think those who live in England upon Irish estates, will be content to take an eight or tenth part by being paid in Wood’s dross? Ireland in the Days of Dean Swift Irish Tracts, 1720 to 1734 2011-08-23T02:00:30.217Z The rough nakedness of the hillside is clad only with thistles and fireweed, with here and there a patch of blanched dead leaves, dross of the old gold of the beech's ancient autumnal glory. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z "Thou who wouldst know the things that be, Bathe thy heart in the sunrise red, Till its stains of earthly dross are fled." Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z There was the senior deacon, who more fond of money than he? though he always called it dross and filthy lucre. Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z Brass, tin, iron, lead, dross of silver are mentioned, but gold is significantly omitted. The Prophet Ezekiel An Analytical Exposition 2011-07-27T02:00:27.557Z Here is the art at its utmost possibility, purged of all its dross. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Should not the object of all our efforts be to reform it—to purge the gold of its dross? The Mormon Puzzle, and How to Solve It 2011-07-21T02:00:23.213Z The ancient methods of simply melting and "skimming the bullion dross" have been superseded. Inventions in the Century 2011-07-20T02:00:14.643Z What is the compensatory unknown joy which turns dross to gold in their case? The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning 2011-07-16T02:00:19.397Z Watch ye, and behold the magnificent courage which in every land of strife is purging families from the dross of indolence and indifference, and educing the gold of chivalry and sacrifice. The Whole Armour of God 2011-07-12T02:00:30.060Z Through him I make gold changeable To dross, and paradise to hell; Clouds for its corpse-cloths I descry. The Three Hills And other Poems 2011-07-07T02:00:25.437Z You called my court’s love worthless—so it turned: I threw away as dross my heap of wealth, And here you stickle for a piece or two! Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z Let me true communion know With thee in thy sacred woe, Counting all beside but dross, Dying with thee on thy cross;— 'Neath it will I die! Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Hawk's-bells are of more account than gold, in Hayti, Se�or, and happening to know it, I am willing to part with the precious things for the dross. Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay 2011-06-14T02:00:24.670Z Esteem thyself among others as dross in the midst of gold, as tares in the wheat, straw among the grain, as a wolf among the sheep, as Satan among the children of God. On Union with God 2011-06-14T02:00:24.337Z And the soul is the diamond eternal Where spirit and power are one, Brushing dross from its splendor supernal As dust from the eye of the sun. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z She had herself painted in her mourning dross. The Invisible Lodge 2011-06-09T02:00:19.470Z He spoke especially against money, which he called "delusion, and dross, and worthless dust, and a soul-destroying canker." Chronicles of the Schonberg-Cotta Family 2011-06-17T02:00:18.293Z Ascent of dross and scum to the surface is usually the first product in processes of clarification. Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z "Ah," exclaimed Aunt Margaret, "how true it is, that, as a quaint old poet says, 'We dig in dross, with mattocks made of gold'!" Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z Where once noisy ponderous mechanism pounded the rocks to release the metals, electrical science with her unseen but resistless currents instantly separate the ore and the dross. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z Here are others, again, of imitation dross and dust, shining and dazzling too; and again, imitations of imitations for the poorest and most credulous, heaped up in harmless glitter and array. Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z Through the branches, through the fountains, over the hills and over the woodlands, the flashing molten silver was flowing, which the moon was fining from out the dross of night. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z All her dross shall be consumed, and all her gold refined. A New Atmosphere 2011-05-20T02:00:35.903Z He did not take dross because he hoped for gold. From the Easy Chair, series 2 2011-04-29T02:00:06.407Z There is no darkness, envy, hatred or slander, no gold mixed with dross. The Universe a Vast Electric Organism 2011-06-09T02:00:22.450Z But the ardour of a genuine passion purifies the nobler soul, as fire purifies the nobler metal, and burns away the dross of self. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 2 2011-04-26T02:00:28.200Z Genius may carry with it a seeming contempt for the yellow dross of common humanity; but—it has to pay its occasional washerwoman. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers, Series 1 2011-04-21T02:00:47.647Z Young Lieutenant Lever was now winning some golden opinions in India, though there was a little dross to be found in the gold. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z Hazard each desperate chance, die ev'ry hour, Deprive poor nature of her due, food—rest, Make the vile flesh lord of the daring mind, For sordid heaps of dross! Joan of Arc A Play in Five Acts 2011-04-14T02:00:57.593Z Oh ever greedy youth! oh baneful thirst of gold, I wish that hell would gather all her golden dross, And set the dragons to watch over it, Instead of tempting wretched human souls Into perdition. Ekkehard. Vol. II (of II). A Tale of the Tenth Century 2011-04-14T02:00:45.217Z The dross of the world was rapidly disappearing. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z The dross which had been accumulating for twelve centuries formed a large amount of that which Matilda believed she had learnt from God. Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg 2011-04-11T02:00:10.567Z The brilliant beauty of the spot was, indeed, heightened by the wild and rugged grandeur of the scene, like a diamond glittering brighter amid the dark dross of the mine. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z Like the extraction of the ore, the purification of the silver from the dross is conducted in the rudest and most primitive manner. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z And when thy meed of penalty is o’er And fire has burned the dross where gold is none, Shall separate life but wasted heretofore, Still linger on? All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z We burn out the dross and rubbish; we liquefy the stubborn and resisting metal till it can be run into the mould—the mould being the whole tone and feeling of a great community. The Secret Glory 2011-03-22T02:00:17.863Z And in sifting Matilda’s writings, as indeed the writings of any man or woman, the gold, if there be any, has to be separated from the dross. Matelda and the Cloister of Hellfde Extracts from the Book of Matilda of Magdeburg 2011-04-11T02:00:10.567Z She spoke of how the great grief of her widowhood had taught her to sift the dross from letters of condolence. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Still, the gold outweighs the dross, and we should remember the laxity and licentiousness of the times in which those books were written. Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume 2011-03-20T02:00:21.247Z Yet it is questionable if they were not richer with their enforced choice of a few good books than we with our embarrassment of riches and its bewildering encumberment of dross. Vermont A Study of Independence 2011-03-17T02:00:13.130Z The fires of the furnace of suffering had destroyed much dross in both their natures, while the real jewel of their loves gleamed brighter and brighter as time passed. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z Naturally he is the same, only the dross in his nature comes to light more hatefully and intrusively than formerly, when the whole charm of fiery manhood glorified his faults. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Meanwhile the pebbles and the dross worked their way over the retaining block and bumped ignominiously to the tailings. The Great Gold Rush A Tale of the Klondike 2011-03-06T03:00:22.017Z Remember, Tom, all that I have said about the supplies, for though they tell me Italy be cheap, I have not yet discovered a land where the population believes gold to be dross. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z It is such an edition of Dryden as ought to be included in a series of the English poets intended to be complete; but even in it there is more of dross than of ore. The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays 2011-03-03T03:00:54.067Z Though, rightly considered, it was but dross and dust, and riches were an awful snare. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z In prosperity he is dull and melancholy; the yellow dross seems to weigh down his spirit, to stultify it; empty his pockets, and it etherialises him. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z However, if it proves to be that good quality content, of which there is much at HubPages, is adversely affected due to the dross element, it will be a sad day. Google Evolves: How Your Web Searches Will Change 2011-02-28T17:23:58Z He isn't a bit better; the bad dross is in him; and my silent tears does no more good than my gentle remonstrances. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. II 2011-03-03T03:00:54.950Z That's 19 from Bennett's over, surely not even Mr Bennett the caretaker from Tony Hart's TV shows could serve up another over of dross like that? Cricket World Cup as it happened 2011-02-25T16:17:01Z He is tender and loving and patient with me, While He cleanses my heart of its dross; But 'there's no condemnation,' I know I am free, For my sins are all nailed to the cross. Jimmie Moore of Bucktown 2011-02-24T03:00:53.640Z But he was of the gold, not the dross of the earth, and passed through the fire, purified, yet not consumed. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z The coals were piled in a neat heap; the dross was swept tidily into a corner; the briquettes were built in an accurate pile. The Setons 2011-02-10T03:00:48.400Z What cared I for the vile dross, of which I had ten thousand dollars in my keeping? The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains 2011-02-09T03:00:48.583Z Selina, a Mænad now, hatless and tossing disordered locks, all the dross of the young lady purged out of her, stalked around the pyre of her own purloining, or prodded it with a pea-stick. Dream Days 2011-02-07T03:00:23.040Z The wise and thoughtful man attacks his faults One after other, momently, In order due, and rubs them all away, E'en as a smith blows off the silver's dross, 240. The Buddha's Path of Virtue A Translation of the Dhammapada 2011-02-07T03:00:21.273Z The Church had again been cleansed of much of its dross, by leaving it behind, and in the main it was a faithful and a pure people that journeyed westward to find another promised land. Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z They have neither part nor parcel in the future history of man; they are rejected as dross from its thrice-heated furnace. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z He had behaved like a man during twenty-four hours which tested one’s moral fibre as pure metal is separated from dross in a furnace. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z No more boughten articles for me—my presents will be fashioned by loving hands without thought of dross. Half-Hours with the Idiot 2011-01-22T03:00:18.853Z It is a fashion to speak of money as if it were dross, but as a salve to the conscience, pounds, shillings, and pence are unsurpassed. '?19,000' 2011-01-14T03:00:45.303Z The Church had been purified by its baptism of fire, and much of its human dross "burnt and purged away." Life of Heber C. Kimball, an Apostle The Father and Founder of the British Mission 2011-02-21T03:00:08.060Z Civil war is a terrible crucible through which to pass character; the dross drops away from the pure metal at the first touch of the fire. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z How I should like to go to those parts, and come back with my pockets filled with the gold that these idiots throw away like dross. Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II 2011-01-03T03:01:05.750Z Johnson's bowling is a roulette wheel, occasional big wins diverting attention from a regularity of dross. The Ashes 2010: Humility the hardest lesson for humbled Australia 2010-12-29T07:50:35Z Oh! be the faithful process borne, And all consumed the dross. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z Despite the torrent of dross that, in his opinion, is pumped out by the BBC, he still manages to find it in him to watch iPlayer. Best of Chatterbox: Move, Moyles and man nights 2010-10-04T09:53:00Z Clearly you're not going to want to flick through all the Freeview channels, many of which are dross, but it's not easy to set up a list of your favourites. Humax Freeview-HD PVR review 2010-09-24T11:08:00Z Celebrity, of course, is the modern alchemist’s stone, turning dross to glamour, converting events otherwise destined for obscurity into fabled occasions. Letter From Europe: Where Glamour and Horror Meet 2010-08-13T14:00:00Z He creates gold from dross modern-style, filling his prescriptions every month like clockwork and then selling the unopened bottles for hundreds of dollars each on a street corner somewhere. Essay: Livesaving Medications, Through a Back Door 2010-07-26T21:47:00Z How to destroy our dross and tin, And cleanse us from each stain of sin, What to inflict, the Lord knows best; ’Tis only ours to stand the test. Poems With a Sketch of the Life and Experience of Annie R. Smith 2010-12-26T03:00:20.460Z The compelling with which it was furnished when new dried up in recent months to a trickle of dross, and one suspects many Wiis began to gather dust in the back of toy-cupboards. Super Mario Galaxy 2 2010-05-27T13:54:00Z We are warned not to judge alone by outward appearance, nor to assume too hastily precious metal in what may prove to be but dross or a poor counterfeit of the real thing. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources Oh, cursed dross! what am I to suffer for ye? Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 It would purify this city of its dross. Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution with a Memoir of Mrs. Adams Or for some gift of gold or dross? The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy To her money certainly was not dross, and I doubt if it was truly so regarded by Mr. Prong himself. Rachel Ray For all the good and evil, strange and detestable things this woman had experienced, had worked together in her strong, clear soul, till after the dross had been separated pure gold remained. The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History A halo of romance surrounded our priestly guide; his pale, refined face glowed with a light from which, as he said, all earthly dross was purified. Glories of Spain But the dross of metals, as also metals, stones, rocks, woods, contain earth rather, or are mixed with a good deal of earth; * and therefore they do not attract. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments He wondered if everything that formerly had appealed to his imagination were going to turn out dross, and he made an expedition to Christchurch Priory to test this idea. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Mr. Prong in all that he was saying intended to be honest, and in asserting that money was dross, he believed that he spoke his true mind. Rachel Ray Money is, after all, dross, riches may even lead a man from the right way, and he feels inclined to thank God for not having brought him into temptation by granting him his wish. Yiddish Tales He seeks chasms and grottoes for the insane pleasure of burdening himself with the dross which we beings of a higher order tread under foot. Tales of the Wonder Club Volume I After iron has been smelted in the first furnaces, it is afterward wrought by various arts in large worksteads or mills, the metal acquiring consistency when hammered with ponderous blows, and throwing off the dross. On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments It is as if a man having a ship laden with dross were offered some nuggets of fine gold and answered, 'My ship is overloaded already, I cannot take more.' Victory out of Ruin When Mr. Prong told her that money in her sight was dross, she merely shook her head. Rachel Ray The nation is being saved as by fire, and in the fire much dross will be consumed. The Great Discovery And each man takes the proffered dower For golden grain or bitter loss; O, happy he that hath the power To take the gold and leave the dross. In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems Mere gold, with no spirit of loving loyalty in the giver, is worse than dross to it; it cankers and eats into its life. Misread Passage of Scriptures There was yet an unworked mine of wonder and superstition, out of which the dust of dross might be thrown into the eyes of the credulous, as the pure gold of revelation. The Death-Blow to Spiritualism Being the True Story of the Fox Sisters One should be allowed to keep one's bright metal—gold or dross, it mattered little; one should be allowed to keep it to play with, not looking into its quality avariciously. The Furnace Oh, may the God of Elijah answer by fire, and consume the spirit of worldliness in the churches, burn up the dross, and make us whole-hearted Christians. Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work Music cleanses the soul from the dust and dross of every-day life and seems to say to every one: 'You are no longer in your office, in the barracks, or in the workshop.' On the Heights A Novel I am no cynical detractor of the advantages of wealth, breeding, education and all the things that go towards refining away some of the dross which clings to the original man. A Top-Floor Idyl We are trying to help the deserving, we are seeking to sift the gold from the dross. John Marsh's Millions They left it there, gold and dross, in that crucible which had so transmuted it. The Furnace This is the Church’s need to-day; we want the Spirit to come in mighty power, and consume all the vile dross there is in us. Secret Power or the Secret of Success in Christian Life and Work The idea of God is, as it were, the touchstone which distinguishes the gold from the dross. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" Thought in the mine, may come forth gold, or dross; When coin’d in words, we know its real worth. Young's Night Thoughts With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes She left the earth, its narrow leagues measured in clay and dross, and touched the world of heaven. The Shadow Gold or dross, it seemed to matter little; it had melted from them, burning their hands. The Furnace Thrice had these men through mortal bodies past, Did thrice the tryal undergo, Till all their little dross was purged at last, The furnace had no more to do. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Yet with my adoration there flamed a fire of passion of so white a heat that it burned away all dross of base imaginings. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois When the Church has joined hands with the State, it has invariably retrograded in spirituality and effectiveness; but the opposition of the State has only served to purify it of all dross. The Overcoming Life and Other Sermons "Why, what matters it which of us has the dross, so that there is enough for both?" said Griffith, with an air of astonishment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 “Are you in my opponent’s camp?” then your god-gifted genius is mere dross. An Outline of Russian Literature Those who complain of some of the dross in her r�pertoire can scarcely have considered the material available to her. Interpreters Compared to them all else was as dross. An Unknown Lover It purges away, in its bath of blood, all dross and impurity; it tempers the metal of the soul of a niggardly peasant, of a timorous citizen; it can make a hero of Valmy. Above the Battle Is man an immortal being, sent here for awhile to triumph over fleshly lusts and passions, to learn to trample as dross on the vanities of earth, and to set his affections on things above? The Night Side of London Dostoyevsky was not an artist; his work is shapeless; his books are like quarries where granite and dross, gold and ore are mingled. An Outline of Russian Literature Thou puttest away all the wicked of the earth like dross: Therefore I love thy commandments. The Bible Story In the crucible of suffering the gold of the human soul is purified from the dross. Jewish Theology It is curious to consider that this pay dirt will be fruitful still, these homes will still be homes, a thousand years after the last yellow dross has been sifted from the hills. Stepsons of Light Consideration has been given to the recovery of nonferrous metals from industrial wastes, such as blast furnace slag and metallurgical dross. Area Handbook for Romania Was it that your philosophy had made you regard gold as mere dross, and then think that the load was a burden? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Hoary and worn and frayed,— Old cross,— By ruin's hand arrayed, Time's dross:— What message never stayed, Speaks from thy lips decayed? The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West It is also certain that contemporary socialism even in the countries where its development is most advanced, carries with it a great deal of dross which it throws off little by little along the road. Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History But the tenement that has power to turn purest gold to dross digs a pit for the Jew even through this virtue that has been his shield against its power for evil. The Children of the Poor Mr Lawrence, having found gold in the dross of common men and women, is inclined to infer that there is too much gold in the vulgar. A Novelist on Novels What a world of bliss this vile dross men call gold can scatter! A Day's Ride A Life's Romance Fanshaw's translation and the original both prove this: ——their tongue Which she thinks Latin, with small dross among. The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem For a thousand years may the sordid dross remain, until by millions of accidents it becomes transformed into a circle, and presses a crowned and joyless head. Tales from the German. Volume II. The Lichtensteins, The Sorceress, The Anabaptist It is called the native iron, but mixed with it there is much earth and stone and dross, which must be separated from it in order to make it pure. With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul Look at the parsons," said he; "they tell you it is all dross and rubbish, and yet they make it the test of your sincerity whenever they preach a charity sermon. Davenport Dunn, Volume 2 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day Here will I dwell, for Heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena. Belcaro Being Essays on Sundry Aesthetical Questions Out of the furnace through which England passed, the English character emerged, purified of some of its dross of Anglo-Saxon sluggishness and Norman arrogance, and finely representative of the tempered elements of both peoples. Women of England You would have destroyed my friendship, and have, instead, freed it, in the furnace of self-immolation, from all earthly dross, and made it immortal. A Struggle for Rome, v. 1 And the officers entered the room gaily, as if nothing had happened; many of them wiped something from their dross—perhaps mud or blood—and each hastened to find and cheer his partner. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 These men know the depths of the girlish heart in this respect, and they have a patience in searching for the gold among the dross that is not generally believed in. Maids Wives and Bachelors Pure affection comes not from the dross of earth, the wealth, power, and pageantry of individuals or of society, nor from the ephemeral loveliness of the human form. The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 Thy thousands in the shadow of the cross; They took not on their perjured lips thy vow; Thy gold they did not mingle with their dross. Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation The resulting powder is then sifted, to separate the grits from the dross and flour, and the central part is again cracked, and the products sifted. The Galaxy, June 1877 Vol. XXIII.—June, 1877.—No. 6. Mixed with all the dross we bring up from thence there are generally some particles of fine gold. The Wine-ghosts of Bremen I have been but a flame to you, burning out the dross from your nature so that she might pour into her heart's crucible only the pure gold. The Song of the Wolf As o'er a troubled brow falls calm content: As clear-eyed chastity in this bleak world Tinges and softens all the darker dross. Blooms of the Berry Let all our dross become thy burnished gold, Shine through each crevice of our stubbornness, Till in transparent purity, we reach The very essence of thy godliness! Montezuma An Epic on the Origin and Fate of the Aztec Nation Learning in a clergyman without religion is dross, is nothing; not so religion without learning. Coelebs In Search of a Wife Finally, nought of the sun remained but a black, exhausted dross, which fell into the sea. Henry of Ofterdingen: A Romance. Back to his book then: deeper drooped his head; Calculus racked him: Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead; Tussis attacked him. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse For years no storms had come to bend them, no wind of adversity to sift the chaff from the wheat, and no fire of trial to purge the gold from the dross. The Frontiersman A Tale of the Yukon The pure gold must be separated from this dross in the crucible of present day human intelligence, reason and experience. From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography There was the Army of the Cumberland, 60,000 strong, from which all dross had been burned by the fierce fires of Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River and Chickamauga; and the campaigns across two States. Si Klegg, Book 6 (of 6) Si And Shorty, With Their Boy Recruits, Enter On The Atlanta Campaign Take all Thy vessels, O glorious Finer, Purge all the dross, that each chalice may be Pure in Thy pattern, completer, diviner, Filled with Thy glory and shining for Thee. Kept for the Master's Use There was marvellous witchery in her rich round flexible tones, that wound into the holy-of-holies of the man’s great heart, and elevated his thoughts above the dross and dust of earth. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part They have been made a gorgeous show, and little more remains of them than worldly display, as Isaiah says, "Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water." Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) But to get the highest value, each must separate the gold from the dross, the pure water from the sand and mud, according to his particular case and need. From Bondage to Liberty in Religion A Spiritual Autobiography In her heart and mind all was dross; she seemed to have lost the power of thinking; she had an engagement to sing in her favorite opera on the evening previous. A Mad Love He separates the dross from the gold, purifies the human character, through the furnace of affliction. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 The effect on Fillmore Flagg of this fervent, all-absorbing love, was most excellent; it broadened and purified his life, eliminating from it all the dross of selfishness. Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century This view of the case seems to be supported by the fact of the dust and dross sifted from spices being called "garbles." Notes and Queries, Number 235, April 29, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Some trusted to the addition of a material substance in aiding the fire to purge away the dross of the base body submitted to it. History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition There is abundance of dross, and time is necessary before the gold can come pure out of the furnace. The History of Freedom In mortal experience, the fire of repentance first sepa- rates the dross from the gold, and reformation brings the light which dispels darkness. Miscellaneous Writings, 1883-1896 All this dross would then glide off us, and the true metal underneath would once more shine forth.” A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day Is the diamond in danger when it is put into the crucible; is the gold deteriorated when it is being deterged from dross?” was responded. The Advocate The richer the soil in which he labours, the less dross and rubbish we have.... Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature She got what she wanted for she wanted only dross. Ivory Apes and Peacocks All philosophies and all religions agree that money is mere dross, filthy lucre. Miss Cayley's Adventures It is such money that the nains manufacture in their subterranean mints—coin which bears the fairy impress of glamourie for a space, but on later examination proves to be merely dross. Legends & Romances of Brittany Who in one hand raised a Crescent, In the other, with submissive Fingers, lifted up a Cross; Reverent and yet derisive Seemed she, robed in gold and dross. Weeds by the Wall Verses Take this dross from your poor friend who loves you!” The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) Farewell, dear babe, with all thy sacred store, In triumph landed on the heavenly shore; Sure nature form'd thee in her softest mould, And grace, from nature's dross, refund the gold. Stories of Boys and Girls Who Loved the Saviour A Token for Children They were nothing—dross that could not dismay me. Shirley In general it may be said that no one has honesty without dross, until he has honesty without suspicion. Twelve Causes of Dishonesty A day for solemn trial Of men is drawing near, Who has the hidden substance, Who dross, will then appear. Favourite Welsh Hymns Translated into English It is dross; I hate it; I should squander it at play and be no richer; it is an investment; it is to save me from ruin. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) She had been but a useless by-product of humanity in the great melting pot of the world and had proved incapable of rising above the dross and making even a poor place for herself. The Peace of Roaring River Caroline, she found, felt the value of the true ore, and knew the deception of the flashy dross. Shirley But there was much dross to be burned away and the two great passions that stood between Jim Hartigan and full spiritual manhood had their roots in these early years at Downey's. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country She saw him, patiently bearing his man-made burden, striving to shield a tender, abandoned girl, and to transfer to her his own great worldly knowledge, but without its dross. Carmen Ariza His gold shall turn to dross, his pleasure to Dead Sea fruit. The Heart of the New Thought Countries such as this are not suited to the dross of humanity. The Peace of Roaring River Purge religion from dross, if you like; but remember that you do so at your peril. Five Stages of Greek Religion Each in its kind was alloy, dross, and for each the metal had to pass through the fires and, purified, come forth. The Preacher of Cedar Mountain A Tale of the Open Country The relative truths and worldly knowledge––purified, as far as in him lay, from the dross of speculation and human opinion––which lay stored in the archives of his mind? Carmen Ariza Money, as Charles Lamb, a great despiser of cant, observed, is not dross, but books, pictures, wines, and many pleasant things. The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed A. Like every other religion that has existed many centuries, it certainly now contains untruth mingled with truth; ever gold is found mixed with dross. The Buddhist Catechism What a noble privilege to pour treasures of knowledge into the crucible of the brain, and separate gold from the dross! Arrows of Freethought Pain, we are told, is the great agent in our development; in the ethical sphere, it is the "purifying fire," which purges the gold in us from its dross. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) He knew that he loved this simple, ingenuous girl with a tenderness of passion that was wholly free from the dross of mesmerism. Carmen Ariza What a noble privilege to pour treasures of knowledge into the alembic of the brain, and separate the gold from the dross! Flowers of Freethought (First Series) And any woman will know that all his other letters wuz as dross to me compared to the one he was hidin’. Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife Lord of these things, he wanted one thing more, Not having which, all else to him was dross. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 88, February, 1865 Idly she had heaped the table with a glittering collection of gems that an empress might well have found interest in; but Dolores frowned as at so much dross, for her thoughts were far away. The Pirate Woman But history caused him many an hour of perplexity in his efforts to purge it of the dross of human thought. Carmen Ariza When the metal has become soft enough to stir with a clean pine stick skim off the dross. The Automobile Storage Battery Its Care And Repair But less of this happened, we may feel sure, than a purging away of the dross. The Balladists Famous Scots Series The fire does not take away from the gold, but it makes it pure and bright, so that all dross is removed. The Epistles of St. Peter and St. Jude Preached and Explained Make salvation clear to us, Who despite our sin and dross Would exalt the Spirit. Hymns and Hymnwriters of Denmark Six sail were in the squadron he possessed, And these he felt the Lord of Hosts had blessed, For he was ever faithful to the cross, With which compared, all else was earthly dross. Christopher Columbus and His Monument Columbia being a concordance of choice tributes to the great Genoese, his grand discovery, and his greatness of mind and purpose She has learned that the sensual pleasures of one side of New York's glittering life are dross and death. Traffic in Souls A Novel of Crime and Its Cure Lydia often saw him holding the balance for her intemperate judgments, his grain of gold forever equalising her dross. The Prisoner Strain the broth, and let it stand till it will form a jelly; then take the fat from the top and the dross from the bottom. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. The vain, fleeting joys of this world are as dross to us. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland It is such a treasure, that precious legacy; so filled with beautiful thoughts, and so free from earthly dross. The Elm Tree Tales He was the dross, people were the dross. The Rainbow But the Captain was an alchemist, and the dross of outer events turned to gold in the marvellous crucible of his mind. Captain Dieppe When this has stewed gently a good while, take out a pint of the clearest liquor, free from fat or dross, and dissolve in it some anchovies finely picked. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. So is it with those fools that waste their days In raking stores of dross and minted gear, Oblivious of the crown of deathless rays That God is offering freely to them here. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland Nor is there any dross that love will not refine away, nor any vice that love can not expel from the heart. A Man's Value to Society Studies in Self Culture and Character No woman had ever been so foolish as she; she had cast away gold for dross. Our Bessie Burn, burn, O Love! within my heart Burn fiercely night and day, 'Till all the dross of earthly loves Is burned, and burned away. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul When you take it up, be careful not to break it; take out the loose bones; pour the liquor on the cheek; clear from the fat and the dross, and put lemon-juice to it. The Lady's Own Cookery Book, and New Dinner-Table Directory; In Which will Be Found a Large Collection of Original Receipts. 3rd ed. Miser! your stay on earth is short indeed, Renounce the dross and choose the heavenly meed. Literary Tours in The Highlands and Islands of Scotland When the metal was melted, he poured off the dross, and proceeded to hammer the ingot into a broad band. Heart of the Blue Ridge Fire of God, thy work begin, Burn up the dross of self and sin; Burn off my fetters, set me free, And through the furnace walk with me. Days of Heaven Upon Earth All shall be dross for thee, All shall be loss for thee, Welcome the cross for thee I, too, shall win! Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul If aught possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping Ivy, Brier, or idle Moss. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare For there's a kingdom at thy beck if thou But kick this dross: Parnassus' flow'ry brow I'll give thee with my Tempe, and to boot That horse which struck a fountain with his foot. Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II Lord, give me to wait on; only, Lord, turn me not to dross. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies The cleansing stream will remove all the dross and leave the soul pure. The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity I read it in yon tomb; All meaner love is perishable dross, But this shall light me through time's thickest gloom. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul If ought possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping Ivy, Brier, or idle Moss. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare It seemed akin to witchcraft to be able to pull out works of near genius from the dross material Baker had been supporting with his grants. The Great Gray Plague But weep not: Why? death challenges but dross, Eternal gain compensates temporal loss; Rest from his labour, sickness, grief and pain: This makes him happy, and our mourning vain. Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies Back to his book then: deeper drooped his head:85 Calculus racked him: Leaden before, his eyes grew dross of lead: Tussis attacked him. Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning All the gold in the world is but dross in comparison with true religious knowledge. Public School Education If ought possess thee from me, it is dross, Usurping Ivy, Brier, or idle Moss. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare It is busy with California, or the Presidency, or extolling iniquity in high places, or flattering the vulgar vanity which buys its dross for gold. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I But he had fire enough in his interior to burn the rubbish and smelt the ore in his better books, and skill enough to run off the metal from the dross, into proper shape. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century With a view to self-embellishment, they collect and treasure up the dross which others hasten to expel. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles These are tragic times, sorrowful times, yet great and noble times, for these are days of fiery ordeal whereby mean and petty things are forgotten and the dross of unworthy things burned away. Great Britain at War Drayton has merely taken the story as he found it, without a thought of submitting its dross to the alchemy of the re-creative imagination of the poet. The Battaile of Agincourt If there were any gold there, it might be possible to send the dross adrift, and to get the gold without alloy. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Has truth need of the dross of error?” An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere It tells us that the materials rejected by the organism, guanine, uric acid and other dross from life's refinery, play an important part in the coloration of the insect. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles Thy silver is become dross, thy wine mixed with water. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature The dross of sin and selfishness and hatred are burned by the salutary fires of contrition, and nothing remains but the pure gold of charity. The Faith of Our Fathers But alas, alas, there was no gold with this dross, and in that matter of blood, as to which Sir Harry's ideas were so strong, and indeed so noble, he entertained but a muddled theory. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite I tell you, one and all, that I count these things as but dross when compared with the life of my Feodora. Doctor Jones' Picnic The egg, entering the cloaca in a soft and utterly naked state, receives an artistic coat of the intestinal dross, even as the Hen's egg is covered by a shell formed of the chalky secretions. The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles And she—last at the cross, First at the tomb, who waits— Woman—will watch to cleanse from dross The cause she elevates. Poems I feel in the depth of my heart that, in possessing Catholic faith, I hold a treasure compared with which all things earthly are but dross. The Faith of Our Fathers She loved him with all her heart, and was resolved to marry him; but the dross must first be purged from the gold. Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite And for this a larger baptism will mean a mighty fire of God kindled in the whole Church such as will burn all its dross and consume all opposition. India's Problem, Krishna or Christ His soul goes out most lovingly to them because they have aroused in him all the greatness in his soul, and purified it�even if only for a time�of all its dross and despicableness. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty It becomes pure flame; immaterial, unearthly, and with no sensual dross left in it. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations Praise God that there is a Power that can consume the vile and the dross, a Power that will not leave it undisturbed. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy It is the alchemy of the human soul which can transmute the dross of a sordid environment to the gold of self-sacrifice, and the gold of inspired religion to the dross of bigotry. Pan-Islam Every man may work in that direction by making every act and power a sacrifice, until the gold is purged from the dross, and only the pure ore remains. Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries Can he not be content to have the dross purged from the silver except the silver itself be cast away? The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Others may sing of the wine and the wealth and the mirth, The portly presence of potentates goodly in girth;— Mine be the dirt and the dross, the dust and scum of the earth! Modern British Poetry Separate, Lord, the wheat from the chaff; separate, as by fire, the gold from the dross; that it may be seen who are the Lord’s, even His holy ones. Holy in Christ Thoughts on the Calling of God's Children to be Holy as He is Holy In Cerro de Pasco there are places called boliches, in which the silver is separated from the dross by the same process as that practised in the haciendas, only on a smaller scale. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Fortunately for me, this illusion that there are such intense perceivers re-creates itself out of the veriest dust and dross of humanity. An Anarchist Woman Why should not the refiner's fire purge away the wicked of the earth like dross? so David calls them. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) How many a nimble-fingered and stout-hearted rogue would not, in those days, have imperiled a dozen lives to clutch that blazing handful of dross, convertible into an Elysium of pomp and pleasure! The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Christianity points to that vivid centre of a soul, in whose light all these external distinctions fade, are fused into dross, become comparatively naught. Humanity in the City The operation of separating the silver from the dross is performed at some distance from Cerro de Pasco, in haciendas, belonging to the great mine owners. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Music's ethereal fire was given Not to dissolve our clay, But draw Promethean beams from Heaven, And purge the dross away. Cardinal Newman as a Musician Fear not, thou shall lose nothing but thy dross. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) For of her heart he from the flames will find But little left behind: Mine only will remain entire, No dross was there to perish in the fire. Tudor and Stuart Love Songs Remember, rough as the experience may be, it goes to make the man in you, and it depends upon you whether you come from these trials dross or pure gold. The Hero of Garside School To win Christ, the Apostle Paul gladly suffered the loss of all things, and counted them as dross and dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus his Lord. Separation and Service or Thoughts on Numbers VI, VII. But, mind you, not the dross, but the rule; not profit, but precedent. Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated Let there be, in the house of God, fuller's soap, to take off those who are “spots in your feasts,” and a refining fire to take away the dross from the silver. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) He had not much, perhaps, but he had something of the true ore, and in the furnace of his untiring energy he would burn out the dross and find the precious gold at last. Casa Braccio, Volumes 1 and 2 The dross of ambition and pride was burned away in the furnace of affliction; the impetuous high-spirited woman refined into the saint. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History "Do you know," he said, "it never once came into my simple old pate to ask which would find the dross and which the honest labor?" A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time The Lord knew that nothing but fire could destroy the dross and subdue my stubborn will. How I Know God Answers Prayer The Personal Testimony of One Life-Time We are not reformed, in God's account, till the refining fire have purged away our dross; till we be refined as silver is refined, and tried as gold is tried. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) The silver is not to blame for the dross; nevertheless, it needs to be burned out. God's Plan with Men She is pure gold and I am base dross.” The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters Royal favour, or that of some fair lady, or ladies, was their chief return in many more cases than those for which their accounts were settled by mere dross. Royal Palaces and Parks of France But now the cup of your offence is overfull, your silver has become dross, and Heaven is weary of you. The Proud Prince It is a speech borrowed from reprobate silver which is not refined from dross, and so is the word used by the Septuagint, Isa. i. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) The silver has been mined, digged from the earth, but there is dross in it. God's Plan with Men "And yet here is one more bit of dross stuffing my gutter." An Apostate: Nawin of Thais Probably he never suspected them himself until the ordeal of terror had sifted the gold from the dross. The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Gold is mere dross—nay, I have the mines of King Solomon at my disposal. He God is a wise refiner, and will not take the silver out of the fire till the dross be purged away from it. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) In the process, moral character may be shaped and strengthened; but it will not be transformed if it is dross in the first place. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 Let them reckon who care more for the dross than I. Devil. Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom Who from true Worship's gold can separate thy dross? The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 Now take a 3-inch ladle and heat it over the fire and then dip it into the solder and skim off any dross that may have collected. Elements of Plumbing It is no light matter; the rod must be very heavy before our uncircumcised hearts can be humbled, and the furnace very hot before our dross depart from us. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Even now there be intelligences around us which the corporeal eye seeth not, nor can see, unless purged from the dross, the fumes of mortality. Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 There were signs of dross in his vision of pure gold. Stubble In short, the element of belief dependent upon the thinker himself is the dross which must be refined away in order to obtain the pure truth. The Approach to Philosophy The working heat of wiping solder is 500°F. Sulphur is used to collect all zinc and dross. Elements of Plumbing The dross of a church is not purged away without this violence of fire. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) He counted the money of this world but as dross. Chanticleer A Thanksgiving Story of the Peabody Family For them, though not for the other citizens, the earthly dross called gold is the accursed thing. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics Bright burns the searching flame, and then, The dross consumed, shall shine the real. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 3, No. 1 January 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy The lead should be melted first and all the dross cleaned off. Elements of Plumbing The dross of heresy and corruption in religion; 3. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) But if the dross of selfishness, the alloy of pride, predominate, 'twill be best to leave her as a toy for some less cautious fool to sigh for! The Rivals A Comedy This is the unsuspected splendor which is added to it naturally, and has nothing to do either with the dross that has been removed, or with the intrinsic qualities of the gem. Spontaneous Activity in Education He is Divine fire that burns up the dross and foulness; but, unless we 'guard the holy fire' and feed it, it dies down into grey cold ashes. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John Second, keep the metal thoroughly mixed when burning and keep all dross cleaned off the surface. Elements of Plumbing Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) The gold of monarchy have we, Without the useless silt and dross; And like our cousins, all are free, Yet we have no election boss. Gleams of Sunshine Optimistic Poems The dross not only defiled it, but prevented it from encountering the rays which should give it its characteristic beauty. Spontaneous Activity in Education The fire carries away the dross; it makes the pure metal glow in its lustre. Expositions of Holy Scripture Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John That ore may contain its share of dross, but it also contains the precious metal which gives employment to the refiner, and without which his occupation would depart. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 And who are they whom he will refine from their dross, and wash from their filthiness? The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Thy silver is dross; it is not fine; it is counterfeit; thy silver is turned; thou hadst no silver. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy But no fires were ever heated that could burn dross fiercely enough to turn it into gold. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play How silly they seemed—it made him so cross— The pleasures of life were nothing but dross, So he hastened away in a fit of despair; All things were against him and "nothing was fair." Nestlings A Collection of Poems The best speaker in the world in many words cannot want sin, the best writer hath some dross and refuse, but here, all is holy, all is profitable. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning This is set forth by a double metaphor: one taken from the refiner's fire, which purifieth metals from the dross; the other, from the fuller's soap; others read the fuller's grass, or the fuller's herb. The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) Nobody has ever yet been able to devise a universal scale by which thoughts may be measured, nor any acid test to distinguish gold from dross in art and literature. American Men of Mind But in the fires of affliction——" "The fires of affliction," he retorted sadly, "have burned away the dross from the pure gold of many a soul, I suppose. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play One who attained all those graces and love’s prize also might at last, for love’s sake, have to count them but dross, or carry them into retirement, the only trophies of abandoned triumphs. Bonaventure A Prose Pastoral of Acadian Louisiana It hath often been put in the furnace of questions and doubtings,—it hath often been tried in the fire of afflictions,—but it came forth like pure gold, without dross. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning |
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