dew
noun
moisture condensed from the atmosphere, especially at night, and deposited in the form of small drops upon any cool surface.
dewless
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a word derived from
dew.
Example Sentences
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They were at the time between two long, low spurs of hills, enclosing a rich narrow valley, deep with ripened grass, gilded into flickering gold by the sun and the dewless summer days.
From Winter Evening Tales by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
It is as though Mantegna had been called to paint a people turned to stone, arrested suddenly amid their various occupations, and preserved for centuries from injury in some Egyptian solitude of dewless sand.
From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds
The sharp outlines of the distant hills came back as in daylight, but little softened in the dry, cold, dewless air of a California summer night.
From The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers by Bret Harte
I thought that sublime setting of primeval forest and pouring canyon was worthy of the lines; I am sure the dewless, crystalline air never vibrated to strains of more solemn music.
From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Richard James Horatio Gottheil
Each “outfit” carries its tent, for use in bad weather; but with a dewless night and a dry soil no one cares to stake a tent after fourteen hours of hard riding.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 by Various
