Their town had been crushed, its very heart torn out and pulverized into a chalky dust.
Thruster fields kicked up small vortices of chalky dust as they hovered.
Grant dropped onto the couch, which creaked and exhaled a cloud of chalky dust.
After the first jigging steps, they trotted willingly forward, hooves lifting spurts of chalky dust from the road.
He kept to the shadows, though the breeze blew freshly, and now and then stopped to wipe the chalky dust from his shined shoes with his handkerchief.
He seemed to be illuminated by a pale blue light, which made the fine hairs on his body look as if they were covered with a chalky dust.
He began to walk along the highway, stirring up puffs of chalky dust along the soft sandy shoulder.
No chalky dust hung about the stalls.
He stood in the light of the half-moon, yawning, his flash reflecting from the chalky dust.
On the barren lot, every footfall and pivot produces a puff of chalky dust that hangs in the air like fog.
