Dust is simply fine bits of matter that are capable of floating in the air.
"I could take in a fine bit here over two or three days," he told Mat.
Turn over and you'll see her face-a fine bit of female stuff.
I can now post this fine bit of comedy into alt.quotations with an easy heart!
And when the walnuts inside it flew out, that was a fine bit of theatrical whimsy.
The spoken language is merely the tonal background to a fine bit of acting.
And a fine bit of wood, handsomely polished, too!
"Not that yours isn't a fine bit of work," the smith went on.
"This is going' to take a fine bit of timin'."
But I can see a fine bit of toe-tapping to that.