Vocabulary Word
Word: dross
Definition: waste matter; worthless impurities
Definition: waste matter; worthless impurities
Sentences Containing 'dross'
I also have in my mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.
The laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies his thoughts of the dross and earthiness which they have accumulated during the day.
For such fancies and imaginations, help much to purge away the dross and filth of this our earthly life,' &c.
God beholds our minds and understandings, bare and naked from these material vessels, and outsides, and all earthly dross.
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