dross
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Still: was that an argument, or a performance of Glengarry Glen Dross?
From The Guardian • Sep. 16, 2016
Verdict Dross swords ... a kitsch glitch for Malkovich The 1980s cartoon Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds is considerably more faithful to literature and to history than this.
From The Guardian • Oct. 21, 2010
It is not to be denied, but that Shakespeare's Dramatic Works are in general very much mix'd; his Gold is strangely mingled with Dross in most of his Pieces.
From Some Remarks on the Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Written by Mr. William Shakespeare (1736) by Anonymous
But Johnson found it of a gross Alloy, Melted it down, and slung the Dross away He dug pure Silver from a Roman Mine, And prest his Sacred Image on the Coyn.
From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Cobb, Samuel
The novel "Dross" was produced in America in 1899, having appeared serially in this country in a well-known newspaper.
From The Slave of the Lamp by Merriman, Henry Seton
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