No earthly dross there, no foul, fierce passions, rending and corrupting the soul.

For them, though not for the other citizens, the earthly dross called gold is the accursed thing.

His eyes were shining like an angel's, and his face was transfigured, purged of all earthly dross, and pure and holy.

But after the earthly dross of your souls is consumed, the pure gold will flow together, I trust, at the bottom of the same crucible.