A handful of greyashes, long long ago at rest.

-Cory,William originally  WilliamJohnson
  Ionica, Poems,'Heraclitus', his translationof an epigram by Callimachus.

And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  The Waste Land, pt.1,'The Burial of the Dead'.

Mr Raymond Martin, beyond question, was born in the gutter, and bred in a Board-School, where they played marbles. He was further (I give the barest handful from great store) a Flopshus Cad, an Outrageous Stinker, a Jelly-bellied Flag-flapper (this was Stalky's contribution), and several other things which it is not seemly to put down.

-Kipling, (Joseph) Rudyard
  Stalky & Co.