There were a few shining new cars in the large parking lot, a larger number of dusty heaps, some pickup trucks and a few huge trans-state trucks.

Then it collapsed on the path in a dusty heap.

I went through gallery after gallery, dusty, silent, often ruinous, the exhibits sometimes mere heaps of rust and lignite, sometimes fresher.

And who amid the dusty heap of the forgotten days shall grovel to find thy yesterday?

Under a dusty heap of brown paper, broken cases, the boys' skis and some old boots, he found two long canvas bags.

I had to get out of that dusty old heap, even if only for a few hours.

He struck the hard ground and rolled like a boulder down a steephillside, until he lay still at last in a dusty heap, like a pile ofold clothing.

Your only suit is in a small dusty heap on a shelf in your hanger-less closet.

When the Germans got there, it was a dusty heap of rubble covered with grass and bushes.

At the time of the 1966 publication, Time criticized Nabokov's play as a "cloud-capped tower of fantasy (that falls) to a dusty heap of speculation".