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    dross


    1. My hand will remove with lye your dross


    2. of Devotion which alone can purify their souls of the dross accumulated


    3. had put us into a white-hot furnace, and the dross was rising to the top


    4. 119 You put away all the wicked of the Earth like dross; therefore I love your testimonies


    5. Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water: 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone


    6. of man, the house of Israel is to me become dross: all they are brass, and tin, and iron, and lead, in the midst of the furnace; they are


    7. that are not yet come, gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad, make me the flowers green again that are withered, 37


    8. and the dross comes to the top, where it is skimmed off


    9. God, which burns our dross of sin away from the inside out! This process is


    10. they are heated until liquid and the dross comes to the top, where it is

    11. 35 And he said to me you can not; and I said therefore Lord? How was I born then? Or why was not my mother's womb then my grave that I might not have seen the travail of Jacob and the wearisome toil of the stock of Israel? 36 And he said to me Number me the things that are not yet come gather me together the dross that are scattered abroad make me the flowers green again that are withered 37 Open me the places that are closed and bring me out the winds that in them are shut up show me the image of a voice and then I will declare to you the thing that you labour to know


    12. For as gold casts away its dross so also will you cast away all sadness and straitness and will be made pure so as to fit into the building of the tower


    13. I’d been operating on the principle that I had to burn through the dross of accumulated karmas by meditating daily and


    14. dross and leaves only the pure gold behind


    15. Sam glanced at her from the corner of his eye, dismissing her as dross


    16. Sri Sankaracharya, the greatest exponent of the Advaita philosophy, that India has ever produced says in his famous commentary to the Svetasvatara Upanishad: “The mind whose dross has been cleared away by Pranayama, becomes fixed in Brahman; therefore Pranayama is prescribed


    17. The praise or favour of man, the rewards or punishments of this present world, were all as dross to him


    18. Through our suffering there is a refining process that takes place where the dross is burnt out of us


    19. Unfortunately there is also a lot of dross


    20. Refiner: The refiner's art was to the working of precious metals, in the separation of the dross from the pure metal

    21. Men may die without incurring the pity of their fellows, still sharers in great business enterprises from which their capital cannot be or has not been withdrawn, and which is left chiefly at death for public uses; yet the day is not far distant when the man who dies leaving behind him millions of available wealth, which was free for him to administer during life, will pass away "unwept, unhonored, and unsung," no matter to what uses he leaves the dross which he cannot take with him


    22. and the dross that sad remains


    23. Gold and silver we will tell them that they have from God; the diviner metal is within them, and they have therefore no need of the dross which is current among men, and ought not to pollute the divine by any such earthly admixture; for that commoner metal has been the source of many unholy deeds, but their own is undefiled


    24. The laborer, looking into it at evening, purifies his thoughts of the dross and earthiness which they have accumulated during the day


    25. It was something like throwing all our discordant opinions into one crucible, and after fusion, extracting what was expected to be gold, but which all called dross


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    Synonyms for "dross"

    dross impurity scoria slag

    "dross" definitions

    worthless or dangerous material that should be removed


    the scum formed by oxidation at the surface of molten metals