fall into dust

The children did not dare to touch them in case they too fell into dust.

From a throne made of gold she had fallen into dust.

His own conviction or energy had fallen into dust.

And if so, if there can be such a case, the whole principle falls into dust.

The Professor says that if we can so treat the Count's body, it will soon after fall into dust.

Thousands of years ago it had not only been locked but sealed, too, for the old seal still hung there, waiting to fall into dust.

They were so dry and brittle that some of them fell into dust. '

Instead he saw the corpses of some ducks, their feathers dry and falling into dust.

Slowly, softly, the sides and the great lid fell into dust that settled gently on the ground around.

They all perished in that instant, rotting and falling into dust as I watched.

His knife fell into dust, his whole body shivered, twisting back on itself.

Looking at her, Covenant's distrust fell into dust.

But all theories, all acquired knowledge, falls into dust when one stands face to face with a perfect man.

They thought hed just wave his hands at a safe distance and the Eclipse Shaman would fall into dust.

The worst thing that could happen was that he would remain there, without hope or home or meaning, long after his body had fallen into dust.

The surface covering consisted of heavily-weathered metal plates which splintered or fell into dust under the weight of our tractor vehicles.

My Platonic version of myself resembled an Egyptian mummy, a mysteriously wrapped object that might or might not fall into dust if uncovered.

There, to his right, was a large door that had once been secured by a lock, now a rusted shell that fell into dust at his touch.

Night came to Serinda; the sun's afterglow lit the sky, and by its dim light the immortals watched their city begin to crumble and fall into dust.

Then Arvin stood up and traced a pattern on the air...and part of the barricade burst into flame and then fell into dust.

According to Jenniskens and Vaubaillon, the meteor shower was created about 3,500 to 5,000 years ago, when about half of the parent body disintegrated and fell into dust.

As the great civilisapt fell into dust and decay, the ability to read the hieroglyphs The knowledge contained in the papyri was preserved, handed guardian to guardian, over the generations.

said Q. "After all, I shall go on and on, long after you have fallen into dust, and your descendants have no recollection of your name."

But she was arching beneath him, so beautiful in her rosy warmth that the shame and anger burned away, fell into dust beside the reality of her in the silver light.

I don't know what it does, and I'm not sure it would still do it at this point-and even if it did, how much of it would fall into dust if you brushed against it?