Example Sentences

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The starlight of that dewless Sierran night was bright and cold and passionless.

From Jeff Briggs's Love Story by Harte, Bret

The air was quieter and warmer than usual, though still characteristic of the locality in its dry, dewless clarity.

From Cressy by Harte, Bret

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 Symonds, John Addington

I thought that sublime setting of primeval forest and pouring cañon was worthy of the lines; I am sure the dewless, crystalline air never vibrated to strains of more solemn music.

From Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O by Reed, Thomas B. (Thomas Brackett)

The night had been cool and comfortable, dry and dewless; but the Shaykhs were torpid after the feast, and the escort and quarrymen had been demoralized by a week of sweet "do-nothing."

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir