gone-to-dust

Updated: July 13, 2026

Next to my own, in my affections, stands this sunlit, flower-covered land which has given the world men and women unselfishly brave and noble. But there are a few deformities in the country's law system that need the knife of a skilled surgeon, amputating right up to the last joint; among these the divorce laws made in ancient times by the gone-to-dust but still sacred and revered ancestors.

Frances Little - The Lady and Sada San: A Sequel to the Lady of the Decoration