dust-tenanted

Updated: February 25, 2025

At length he draws forth the dust-tenanted skull, coated on the outer surface with greasy mould. "There!" he says, with an unrestrained exclamation of joy, holding up the wasting bone, "this was in its time poor Yorick's skull. It was such a skull, when Yorick lived! And the old man shakes his head, mutters inarticulately, and weeps with the simplicity of a child.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - An Outcast: or, Virtue and Faith

At length he draws forth the dust-tenanted skull, coated on the outer surface with greasy mould. "There!" he says, with an unrestrained exclamation of joy, holding up the wasting bone, "this was in its time poor Yorick's skull. It was such a skull, when Yorick lived! And the old man shakes his head, mutters inarticulately, and weeps with the simplicity of a child.

F. Colburn (Francis Colburn) Adams - Justice in the By-Ways, a Tale of Life