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Sentences starting with dry

Dry night and wind steady enough to require no change in sail; but this A.M. an attempt to lower it proved abortive. [5]

Sentences ending with dry

In a pond was a wooden swan sitting on a stick, the water having receded, and left it high and dry. [4]
These reports of Thug expeditions run along interminably in one monotonous tune: "Met a sepoy--killed him; met 5 pundits--killed them; met 4 Rajpoots and a woman--killed them"--and so on, till the statistics get to be pretty dry. [5]
The fount is these nine days dry. [5]
It was in the solid rock, some ten feet high and irregular in shape, and perfectly dry. [9]
It drips from the leafless boughs, and mine eyes--I need not hide it--will not be kept dry. [10]
At this sight the Egyptians wept in their exceeding great misery; but Psamtik's eyes were dry. [10]
It was plain that I had worked myself out, pumped myself dry. [5]
How many ghosts that "thick men's blood with cold" prove to be shirts hung out to dry! [6]
Yusef's wide shoulders straightened back, his tongue licked his lips, his eyes stared before him, his throat was dry. [11]
Some of the stalactites that hung from it looked like great icicles, and some of them looked like damp, grey clothes hung out to dry. [10]

Short sentences using dry

My mouth was dry. [9]
They were clean, dry, roomy. [13]
She let them dry there. [11]
Marse Grafton is dry fambly! [9]
It is hot and dry. [4]

Sentences containing dry two or more times

The conviction that the lazy herd whom he commanded was called upon to pour consolation into a thousand sorrowing hearts, to dry innumerable tears, and to clothe the dry sticks of despair with the fresh verdure of hope, urged him to strong measures. [10]
Why, there's plenty of ventilation here, and you've got to have a certain amount of heat and moisture, because when cotton is cold and dry it can't be drawn or spin, and when it's hot and dry the electricity is troublesome. [9]

More example sentences with the word dry in them

Now, ma'am, if you was wantin' to make a long an' fast ride across the sage--say to elope--" Lassiter ended there with dry humor, yet behind that was meaning. [13]
The sweet violet you inclosed came safely to hand, but it was so dry, and mashed so flat, that it crumbled to dust at the first attempt to handle it. [7]
For four thousand years its waters have not gone dry or its fertility failed. [5]
Now, for some years it has been inadequate, frequently unintelligible, often grossly misleading, failing wholly to give the real spirit and meaning of the most important discussions; and it is as dry as chips besides. [4]
He said he would secure us a hotel if he could, but if they were all full he would ask them to build another one and hurry up and get the paint and plaster dry against we arrived. [5]
In the dry wood of despair soon budded green shoots of hope, and instead of annihilation at the end of this life they showed me Heaven and all its joys. [10]
Their cries mingled with the crackling and snapping of the dry wood, and the roar of the flames, with the trumpet calls of the awakening troops, and the beating of drums. [10]
When a building with dry rot catches fire, Rench, can you put limit to how much of it will burn? [9]
Once in a while he thrust his hand through his dry, ashy hair which was of a tone with the paleness of his face. [9]
I don't know what some folks think so well as I know what some fools say,--rejoined the Little Gentleman.--If importing most dry goods made the best scholars, I dare say you would know where to look for 'em.--Mr. [6]
Then the details were ponderously thought out by the miller, and ponderously acted upon, with the dry approval of Medallion, who dared not tell the Cure of his complicity, though he was without compunction. [11]
If the aristocracy were malignant--though numbers of them were far from being so--there was also a malignant prejudice aroused against them, and M. Taine is not far wrong when he says of this prejudice, "Its hard, dry kernel consists of the abstract idea of equality. [4]
Her daughter's eyes were dry and fevered. [11]
The forest pools were cracked and dry, the Spanish moss was a haggard gray, and under the sun was the haze which covered the land like a saffron mantle. [9]
When they were well exhausted, they would run out and sprawl on the dry, hot sand, and lie there and cover themselves up with it, and by and by break for the water again and go through the original performance once more. [5]
This granite couch we covered with the dry and springy moss, which we stripped off in heavy fleeces a foot thick from the bowlders. [4]
Having in one way or another sucked it dry, they look round for another road. [4]
The curtain of water covering this entrance was blown back and forth by the wind, now leaving the platform dry and now deluging it. [4]
Colonel Clark stood watching from the bank above, and it was he who pulled me, bedraggled, to dry land. [9]
Pardingue, the Lord was--with me that day, and--" The apprentice laughed--a dry, mirthless laugh of disbelief and ridicule. [11]
Mr Swiveller, who was perfectly ravenous, and had had, all night, amazingly distinct and consistent dreams of mutton chops, double stout, and similar delicacies, felt even the weak tea and dry toast such irresistible temptations, that he consented to eat and drink on one condition. [12]
The old physician was holding the gasping woman in his arms, and Eva knelt beside the high bedstead sobbing, as she covered the dry, burning hand with kisses. [10]
When the reading was finished, he gave a dry little laugh, and came down to the Governor, apologizing for his lateness, and bowing to the rest of us. [11]
But the weather was dry and the voyage to Westchester accomplished successfully. [9]
And now Pentaur was distinctly visible against a background of flaring light, for some fire-brands had fallen on the dry palm-thatch of the hovel behind him, and roaring flames rose up to the dark heavens. [10]
At last Wyndham was able to drop into the narrow channel, now dry, through which, when the sluice was open and the sakkia turned, the water flowed to the house. [11]
Whereas formerly many wares which needed to be kept dry had been hoisted from the outer door and the street to the spacious attic, this was now prevented by the projecting figures of the nude men and the bears. [10]
Would not the very springs of it dry up? [9]
It must be very near noon if not already past; she dusted her sandals and tidied her curly hair, picking out the dry leaves and not noticing that at the same time a rose fell out on the ground. [10]
This is the Valiant Soldier, by James Groves--Jem Groves--honest Jem Groves, as is a man of unblemished moral character, and has a good dry skittle-ground. [12]
He said: "Dan used to make a good thing out of the hay wagons in a dry time when there were no fires or inquests. [5]
Now, what's the use of using the words that belonged with the thumb-screws, and the Blessed Virgin with the knives under her petticoats and sleeves and bodice, and the dry pan and gradual fire, if we can't have the things themselves, Sir? [6]
She has looked upon the dry bones of a thousand empires, and will see the tombs of a thousand more before she dies. [5]
Alencon Barre looked up, agony twitching his nostrils and a dry white line on his lips. [11]
A dromedary flashing up the sands,--spray of the dry ocean sailed by the "ship of the desert. [6]
His forehead was unwrinkled--a rare thing in that prairie country where the dry air corrugates the skin; his light-brown hair curled loosely on the brow, graduating back to closer, crisper curls which in their thickness made a kind of furry cap. [11]
Holwell was an unselfish man, a man of the most generous impulses; he lived and died famous for these fine and rare qualities; yet when he found out what was happening to that unwatched sleeve, he took the precaution to suck that one dry first. [5]
When I was twenty-three I wanted to squeeze the orange dry in a handful of years, and then go out suddenly, and let the dust of forgetfulness cover my bones. [11]
I have been trying for the last ten or twelve days to get a pair of drawers dry enough to put on, and to-day at last succeeded. [5]
The sound of trotting horses had ceased, and there was silence broken only by a faint, dry pattering of cottonwood leaves in the soft night wind. [13]
They have a tough, dry grass, which, matted together, furnishes them with clothes sufficiently warm for their cold-blooded constitutions, and more than sufficiently ugly. [6]
They are to touch neither a sail nor a pump, but to be merely passengers--deadheads at that--to be carried snug and dry throughout the storm, and safely landed right side up. [7]
In the autumn, too, many a dry brown leaf found its way among the more expensive tobacco ones. [10]
Cooper requires him to turn out and find a dry twig; and if he can't do it, go and borrow one. [5]
Give me time to think," she said with dry lips, her heart beating hard. [11]
He went back to the pile of dry goods, and began to work. [9]
The first held to the old methods of Galen: its theory was that the body, the microcosm, like the macrocosm, was made up of the four elements--fire, air, water, earth; having respectively the qualities hot, dry, moist, cold. [3]
His game is to squeeze Kingsley's gold orange dry, if he can. [11]
He was about to speak kindly as of old, but the young man, with clattering spurs, came up to the other end of the table, and with a dry insolence said: "By whose invitation do you come here? [11]
We have had to run ashore for shelter every time it has rained heretofore, but Joseph has been putting in his odd time making a water-proof sun-bonnet for the boat, and now we sail along dry although we had many heavy showers this morning. [5]
Would you like to risk a month in a dry time like this? [5]
When Adrian began to feel better, she went to Bessie, who pale and inanimate, seemed to be gently fading away, and only now and then raised her little finger to play with her dry lips. [10]
For a well to dry up during such a rain-storm was extraordinary,--it was ominous. [6]
There is this to be said in favor of the Bourbons: that a dry time never had occurred while they reigned,--a statement in which all good Catholics in Sorrento will concur. [4]
Howbeit, at that time the gang were about to light a fire to make their supper, and whereas it would not burn by reason of the wet, they had taken the dry paper and used it to make the feeble flame blaze up. [10]
Must it some time or other be moistened with tears, until it comes to life again and begins to stir in our consciousness,--as the dry wheel-animalcule, looking like a grain of dust, becomes alive, if it is wet with a drop of water? [6]
To give the thunderstorm time to pass and take his wife and daughter home dry, he had entered a tavern near the lindens and there engaged in conversation with several friends over some wine. [10]
It stains backward through all the leaves we have turned over in the book of life, before its blot of tears or of blood is dry on the page we are turning. [6]
The anchorite hastily threw away the stone, fell upon his knees, and soon found on the dry spot of ground under the stone, and in the farthermost nook of the retreat, a motionless human form. [10]
He had, besides, though there was little exuberance in his nature, a gift of dry humour, which did more than anything else, perhaps, to make his presence among them unrestrained. [11]
By one of those accidents which make fatality, a small wooden house some distance away, with a roof as dry as wool, caught fire from a flying cinder. [11]
Confucius speak like this: 'Young woman go to young man; young bird is for green leaves, not dry branch. [11]
Presently she realised this, and drew back, then made as though to dry the tears from the paper with her handkerchief. [11]
At the base this vent was dark, cool, and smelled of dry, musty dust. [13]
All the hidden things in his face seemed to open out into a swift shrewdness and dry candour when he was in his mood of "laying all the cards upon the table. [11]
Never mind, the thing will wait till we stand in my ancestral halls," he added, with a dry laugh. [11]
Right away-- But they've come to take me to the top of Mount Royal, it being a cold, dry, sunny, magnificent day. [5]
Away down yonder, they have driven two rows of piles straight through the middle of a dry bar half a mile long, which is forty foot out of the water when the river is low. [5]
Therefore, "some say they could see no timbers of ten foot diameter, some the country is all wood; others they drained all the springs and ponds dry, yet like to famish for want of fresh water; some of the danger of the ratell-snake. [4]
You will stand there with dry feet, but your soul will bathe in eternal, imperishable, divine beauty. [10]
I smiled, and then, after putting my hands on the walls here and there to see if they were, as they seemed, quite dry, I drew back to my couch and sat down. [11]
Our naturalist would then perhaps turn to geographical distribution, and he would probably declare that those forms must be distinct species, which differ not only in appearance, but are fitted for hot, as well as damp or dry countries, and for the Artic regions. [1]
People who devote themselves too severely to study of the classics are apt to become dried up; and you should never do anything to dry up a cow. [4]
Besides, he said them without any kind of affectation, and with a certain turn of dry humour, as if he were inwardly laughing at the idea of the poem. [11]
Mary Hendrikhovna obliged them with the loan of a petticoat to be used as a curtain, and behind that screen Rostov and Ilyin, helped by Lavrushka who had brought their kits, changed their wet things for dry ones. [2]
When you let them go, they pop up to the surface as dry as a patent office report, and walk off as unconcernedly as if they had been educated especially with a view to affording instructive entertainment to man in that particular way. [5]
He said: "Examine them at your leisure while I get mother to touch up the kite with her iron if it isn't dry enough yet. [5]
You can cross the street dry even without my long garment. [10]
Sprightly notes from the song of a cafe chantant hovered on his thin, dry lips. [11]
But most of the pictures were taken on dry land, of single persons, couples, and groups in their bathing suits. [4]
I said to the monk: "It is a difficult miracle to restore water in a dry well, but we will try, if my brother Merlin fails. [5]
Not uncivil in the least,--said the Scarabee, with something as much like a look of triumph as his dry face permitted,--not uncivil at all, but a rather extraordinary question to ask at this date of entomological history. [6]
History-facts dug by the job, with sweat and tears out of a dry and spiritless text-book--but never mind, all who have suffered know what that is. [5]
But scarcely was the ink dry on the receipts from his creditors when he was once more borne into the clouds on the prospect of millions, perhaps even billions, to be made from a marvelous carpet-pattern machine, the invention of Sczezepanik, an Austrian genius. [5]
When I struck the head of the island I never waited to blow, though I was most winded, but I shoved right into the timber where my old camp used to be, and started a good fire there on a high and dry spot. [5]
When they reached the group of paupers they rested upon a woman with deadly pale, hollow cheeks, pressing a pitifully emaciated infant to her dry breast, and her eyes swiftly filled with tears. [10]
We had drained the goat-skins dry in a little while. [5]
It was about the first of September; no rain had fallen for several weeks, and this heart of the forest was as dry as tinder; a lighted match dropped anywhere would start a conflagration. [4]
The horses showered the fine dry snow on the faces of those in the sleigh--beside them sounded quick ringing bells and they caught confused glimpses of swiftly moving legs and the shadows of the troyka they were passing. [2]
In either case the fact had a pathos which Mrs. March confessed in the affection with which she took her hard, dry, large, old hand when she was introduced to her, and in the sincerity which she put into the hope that she was well. [8]
The warmth of the dry hay was comforting, and after caring for my wounds, which I found were but scratches, I had somewhat to eat from my knapsack, drank up two eggs, and then coiled myself for sleep. [11]
It gives me the dry gripes just to think of it. [5]
Miss Hay brought the dry clothes before the physician arrived. [9]
Had she heard the dry and subtle suggestion of Gaston's talk, she would, however, have justified her mother. [11]
The magnitude of the concerns, the admirable stoicism with which he received alarming news, his dry humour while they waited between messages--all were so unlike anything the telegraph-clerk had ever seen, or imagined, that the thing was like a preposterous dream. [11]
The sun warms the air, gives it a flavour, and between it and the light frost, which showed that it was dry outside, I got the smell of a fine Fall day. [11]
I now saw that there were shreds of moss and dry leaves in the young woman's hair and bid her brush them out. [10]
I told him that in theory a dry battery was just a curled darling and no mistake, but when it come to practice, sho!--and here's the result. [5]
His face wore that expression when his dry hands clenched with vexation at her not understanding a sum in arithmetic, when rising from his chair he would walk away from her, repeating in a low voice the same words several times over. [2]
He was very tall for his age, with dark hair and a pale dry face, and of distinguished bearing. [11]

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