brick-dust

That brick-dust which we agree to receive as representing a blush, look at it — can you say it is in the least like the blush which flickers and varies as it sweeps over the down of the cheek — as you see sunshine playing over a meadow?

The Newcomes 2006

If I ever have time I shall patent this invention; why, you may burn brick-dust in it, Bath-brick, hearth-stone, or potsherds!

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

Peasant women and girls came in a crowd from the station where they had been loading the trucks with bricks, and their noses and their cheeks under their eyes were covered with red brick-dust.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

I can feel them as he looks, the lashes on his eyes, the shave of his hair on the back of his head, the very edge of soft, like brick-dust.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

I can feel them as he looks, the lashes on his eyes, the shave of his hair on the back of his head, the very edge of soft, like brick-dust.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

They certainly will turn black to a brick-dust hue, but the color is often disagreeable.

The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous

All along the road the stems and lower branches of the trees are dyed a deep brick-dust color, and I hear moving and pathetic stories of how it ruins clothes, not only utterly spoiling black silk dresses, but staining white petticoats and children's frocks and pinafores with a border of color exactly like the ruddle with which sheep are branded.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

And after the establishment of a filtering tub or hopper, prepared as before described, with holes, flannel or woollen cloth, and plenty of maple charcoal, and burnt brick-dust, a distiller may always find leisure to attend to the filtration; indeed it will be found as simple and easy, as the process for making ley from ashes in the country for soap.

The Practical Distiller An Introduction To Making Whiskey, Gin, Brandy, Spirits, &c. &c. of Better Quality, and in Larger Quantities, than Produced by the Present Mode of Distilling, from the Produce of the United States Samuel McHarry

"If I mixed up coal-dust and brick-dust, how'd you separate 'em?"

Acton's Feud A Public School Story Frederick Swainson

_To Scour Knives Easily: _ -- Mix a small quantity of baking soda with your brick-dust and see if your knives do not polish better.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette