1 There was not a speck of dust to be seen in the whole flat.
2 Near the tavern the road became a dusty track, the dust of which was always black.
3 I ought to have studied, but I sold my books; and the dust lies an inch thick on the notebooks on my table.
4 It was probably a carriage builder's or carpenter's shed; the whole place from the entrance was black with coal dust.
5 Yes, there it lay on the sofa under the quilt, but it was so covered with dust and grime that Zametov could not have seen anything on it.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER III 6 I don't condemn her for it, I don't blame her, for the one thing left her is recollection of the past, and all the rest is dust and ashes.
7 Again dust, bricks and mortar, again the stench from the shops and pot-houses, again the drunken men, the Finnish pedlars and half-broken-down cabs.
8 The greenness and freshness were at first restful to his weary eyes after the dust of the town and the huge houses that hemmed him in and weighed upon him.
9 I kissed the dust at his feet--in thought only, for in reality he would not have allowed me to do it, being a statesman and a man of modern political and enlightened ideas.
10 There were crowds of people in the street; workmen and business people were making their way home; other people had come out for a walk; there was a smell of mortar, dust and stagnant water.
11 The furniture was in keeping with the room: there were three old chairs, rather rickety; a painted table in the corner on which lay a few manuscripts and books; the dust that lay thick upon them showed that they had been long untouched.
Crime and Punishment By Fyodor DostoevskyContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER III 12 The heat in the street was terrible: and the airlessness, the bustle and the plaster, scaffolding, bricks, and dust all about him, and that special Petersburg stench, so familiar to all who are unable to get out of town in summer--all worked painfully upon the young man's already overwrought nerves.