The last time I came cap in hand to chapter, I got a dusty answer."

And mostly you got a dusty answer because if you hadn't got shares to put down as collateral, you didn't get your loan.

The Sack need not always give a dusty answer.

To all Man's questioning, the Universe still gave a dusty answer.

Dusty answers for villagers on road to the polls.

Oedipus had received a lot of dusty answers to his researches too.

I complained to Northumbrian Water about this and they gave me a very dusty answer.

The last time I came cap in hand to chapter, I got a dusty answer."

I hear the Governor tried to send you an urgent message yesterday, but you gave his messenger a dusty answer!"

I received a dusty answer.

What Dusty answered was not "please."

I suppose I'd get what they call a dusty answer would'n' I?'

Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann - a good read!

In 1927, Lehmann published her first novel, Dusty Answer, to great critical and popular acclaim.

Dusty Answer (1927)

Miss Lehmann's first novel, "Dusty Answer," won immediate fame for the young author when it was published in 1927.

And mostly you got a dusty answer because if you hadn't got shares to put down as collateral, you didn't get your loan.

Dusty Answer is English author Rosamond Lehmann's first novel, published in 1927.

Dusty Answers, (unpublished) edited by Phillip Ward.

The same letter reveals another likely inspiration for McEwan: Bowen compares Briony's manuscript to "Dusty Answer."

Her first novel, Dusty Answer (1927), was a succès de scandale; she subsequently became established in the literary world and intimate with members of the Bloomsbury set.

The Evening Standard cited Dusty Answer and Alec Waugh's The Loom of Youth as being a 'corrupting influence' on the young.

The title is a quote from the sonnet sequence Modern Love by George Meredith: "Ah, what a dusty answer gets the soul/ When hot for certainties in this our life!"

Was that why this diary had a Russian texture and tone, a bleakness composed of cold streets, late nights, littered rooms and dusty answers, and the unanswerable "What is to be done?"