dry-as-dust

Historical Examples

• It was no use trying to be dry-as-dust since the spring had got into her blood.

  Mary Gray

  Katharine Tynan

• It doesn't sound like the dry-as-dust dead collections of museums.

  Through Our Unknown Southwest

  Agnes C. Laut

• The clergyman was a remarkable specimen of the 'dry-as-dust' species.

  Gladys, the Reaper

  Anne Beale

• I saw them this morning, a couple of dry-as-dust old fossils—city men, I believe, who only think of house property and dividends.

  The Seven Secrets

  William Le Queux

• Dry-as-dust letters and specifications, builders' quantities, and so on, to type out.

  The Boy with Wings

  Berta Ruck