Northern California one Pulverous earth-colored mass of hills and heat, with green spots produced by irrigation hardly showing on the background.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James
Some of the farmers were already beginning to drive home, and their wheels sent up the Pulverous clouds which the western sun just tinged with red; Burton got the color under the lower boughs of the maple grove of his deep door-yard.
"The Coast of Bohemia"
William Dean Howells