Inside it's a maze of narrow rooms and low-beamed ceilings and a dusty air of academia hangs over the place.

Wood smoke from outdoor kitchens filled the dusty air while the leaves of banana trees clattered above us; we stopped at a small house set amid vanilla and coffee trees.

Drifting through the dusty air, unseen except by us, are their youthful selves: the ghosts of glamour past.

The steam of her breath mingled with the dusty air.

We sit at a wooden table in a café-bar with a dusty floor.

After finally gaining entry into the cave, they discovered footprints of modern shoes in the dusty floor.

Peering through the windows, rubbish litters dusty floors.

Soon fat gobbets of rain are turning the dusty landscape a dark, muddy brown, sending everyone running for cover.

Across the barren and dusty landscape, gas rises, and the hot magma below never seems far away.

The property boasted a tennis court, a croquet lawn and orchards and was, and remains, a remarkable oasis in a typically dry and dusty landscape.

I'm studying for a doctorate and weekends are often spent solo in a dusty library.

An entire compartment in his dusty library stands filled with elegantly bound books, upwards of sixty little volumes, mainly novels, which he wrote between 1861 and 1871.

Some may be waiting to be discovered on the shelves of dusty libraries or buried in the cold soil.

Spice occupies far more than a dusty shelf in our kitchen cupboards.

A forgotten stereo sits atop a dusty shelf.

I was stuck with the films on the ever-shrinking dusty shelf at the back of the video library.

Or fill that dusty shelf in the closet.

Dusty shelves sag with jars of home-made jam and pickle.

He led us through a series of narrow, dusty streets until we came to a low, wooden door, upon which he knocked before disappearing.

Its dusty streets were silent, its houses shuttered, its shops and businesses locked.

Shops were ripped open and their contents strewn through the dusty streets.

Tables perch in metropolitan railway stations and on the dusty streets of the rural hinterland, so that commuters and farmhands can indulge their obsession.

Beyond the skyscrapers, after all, the old hustling, teeming dusty streets remain.

The saucer-shaped 'aeroshell' will gently drop a car onto the dusty surface, the latest move in a never-ending hunt for life on the red planet.

Other observers point out that there are footprints but no blast crater from when the spacecraft landed on the dusty surface.

We all talked ourselves into believing that there was something massive beneath the dry and dusty surface but when we got there the cupboard was empty.

Winds are predominantly from the east; strong winds often picking up the dusty surface snow reducing visibility to a few metres.

Both dry dusty surfaces and dewy grass are known to exhibit these characteristics.