bone-dust

But she fancied she caught a whiff of ancient death, of bone-dust and terror, and she couldn't keep her imagination from painting scenes that were not at all com-fortable.

Elvenborn Lackey, Mercedes 2002

The largest of these devices looked a little like the Tonka tractor Eddie had gotten for his sixth or seventh birthday; its treads churned up tiny gray clouds of bone-dust as it rolled along.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

Eddie looked around at the wreckage and slowly began to beat the bone-dust out of his pants and shirt.

The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

And he could hear the saw shrieking and feel it cutting, grinding bone-dust, his bone-dust.

King Rat Clavell, James, 1924- 1962

Bishop Hall producing sketches as good as the "Horæ Homileticæ:" but we grow sleepy when we try to imagine Scott diluted or Walker desiccated, and from a congregation top-dressed with bone-dust from the "Skeletons," the crop we should expect would be neither fervent Christians nor enlightened Churchmen.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

He alluded especially to the new order about enlistment, our object being, he said, to make the sepoys go across the sea in order that they might be obliged to eat what we liked; and he argued that, as we had made our way through India, had won Bhartpur, Lahore, etc., by fraud, so it might be possible that we would mix bone-dust with grain sold to

Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts

For these crops, fair dressings of manure were applied -- say ten or twelve cartloads of barn-manure plowed in, and one hundred pounds of either guano or bone-dust harrowed in, or strewed in the drill, for each acre; about fifteen loads per acre of seasoned muck or peat were also plowed in.

Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles Henry Flagg French

More explosions at a little distance, and two more men were found to be casting, in the same manner, small bottles of opaque white glass, resembling china, a quality produced by an admixture of bone-dust in the frit.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

He has improved his outlying lands of Scotland and Ireland, ransacked the battle-fields of Europe for bone-dust and the isles of the Pacific for guano, and imported enough to fertilize four millions of acres, and, not content with the produce of his home-farm, imports the present year more than four millions of tons of grain and corn to feed nineteen millions of his people.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 Various

"Ah!" said his companion, answering his look of inquiry, "it is bone-dust; and now you may see where it comes from."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 49, November, 1861 Various