“They were German hussars and they streamed out of the dunes leaving a trail of dust, their drawn blades glittering.”
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Prey (2001)
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“A fresher green the smelling leaves display
And glittering as they tremble, cheer the day.”
from the poem The Hermit.

“Money can always be traced. It leaves a trail of slime behind it wherever it goes.”
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“But when the dust has drawn up the blood of a man, once he is dead, there is no return to life.”
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“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“A Nemean steed in terror of the fight bears the hero from the citadel of Pallas, and fills the fields with the huge flying shadow, and the long trail of dust rises upon the plain.”
Illum Palladia sonipes Nemeaeus ab arce
devehit arma pavens umbraque inmane volanti
implet agros longoque attollit pulvere campum.
Source: Thebaid, Book IV, Line 136 (tr. J. H. Mozley)

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