"Too bad these are so far gone," he said gaily, sitting on one dusty relic, gripping its handlebars.

At least in this country, his opus is studied, if at all, as a dusty relic of a time and circumstance long past.

"Why would anyone be willing to kill for some dusty old relic?"

If you are what you claim to be, you're nothing but a dusty relic from some medieval ghetto.

Here, however, in the privacy of his bedroom, there were no dusty relics of Canada's first prime minister.

She was in an ancient underground chamber, surrounded by her most favorite things: dusty relics from ages long past.

Silver was a lot more than some dusty old relic, though.

The loft was a typical attic found in homes all over Europe, usually the gathering-place for dusty relics.

"Certainly in France, the book is thought to be old-fashioned, a dusty relic of another age," says Ferran.

It consists of more than 250 works from the collection of the British Museum, and these are anything but dusty relics.