This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away. From LearnThat.org. [Mevlana Rumi (1207-1273), Persian sufi mystic from Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance.]
This dross is typical of the MS-centric drivel found on Sympatico-MSN. From Wordnik.com. [Stop snoopers: Clear your Internet history | Sync Blog] Reference
Often, the dross is expunged when excitement fades, leaving the fine kernel behind. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer, Prov. xxv. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference
Just sitting back and waiting for the dross from the Obama bin Lyin 'lemmings. From Wordnik.com. [First on the Ticker: RNC blasts Obama's stimulus in new video] Reference
Secondly, There are two sorts of things that are called the dross of silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
4 Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. From Wordnik.com. [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)] Reference
Before their dross is purged away. From Wordnik.com. [Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell] Reference
Guess spending lots of time in California gives one the ability to spot this kind of dross a mile away. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter Projects] Reference
The lead should be melted first and all the dross cleaned off. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Plumbing] Reference
Thy silver is turned into dross: thy wine is mingled with water. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
I count these things as but dross when compared with the life of my. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference
Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthern vessel adorned with silver dross. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 22: Proverbs The Challoner Revision] Reference
She's lost nothing in the end but a little dross, and her sorrow has helped to bring joy to many. From Wordnik.com. [True to his Colours The Life that Wears Best] Reference
Thy silver is dross; it is not fine; it is counterfeit; thy silver is turned; thou hadst no silver. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
And I will turn my hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross, and I will take away all thy tin. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
For such fancies and imaginations, help much to purge away the dross and filth of this our earthly life, '&c. From Wordnik.com. [Meditations] Reference
Very tall and spare, and both face and figure were of that exalted kind which make ordinary beauty seem dross. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
Legside dross from old butterfingers is clipped down to fine leg for two where Umar Gul makes an athletic stop. From Wordnik.com. [England v Pakistan – as it happened!] Reference
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