Example Sentences

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The weather was now, and had been for several weeks—indeed ever since the thunderstorm which occurred the day we came upon the clay-channel water—very agreeable; the nights cold but dewless.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest

How the solemn numbers have tolled above the sorrow-folds of the human heart and echoed in the dewless valleys of the mind, the depths to which we sink when hope is gone!

From Sons and Fathers by Edwards, Harry Stillwell

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 Gottheil, Richard James Horatio

There was a sense of blight in the air; the flowers were drooping in the garden, and the ground was parched and dewless.

From The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie

It is the ghost of unshed showers—atomized dew, precipitated in life-bestowing avalanches upon a dewless and parched shore; it is the good angel that stands between a careless people and contagion; it is heaven-sent nourishment.

From In the Footprints of the Padres by Stoddard, Charles Warren