dryasdust
- a variation of dry-as-dust.
Example Sentences
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The bill secured the support of the "dryasdust" Lord Astor; the Government also gave its support with a number of reservations.
From Time Magazine Archive
The boy takes some qualities after his father; he has a daring that is disturbing to an old dryasdust lawyer like me.
From The Lady of the Shroud by Stoker, Bram
Steeped though you frown in this dryasdust clever age, Dare you presume to resist such a beverage?
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 26, 1892 by Various
I take the list from the dryasdust pages of The Congressional Record, December 12, 1907, from a speech by the Hon. Jeff Davis, United States Senator from Arkansas.
From The Common Sense of Socialism A Series of Letters Addressed to Jonathan Edwards, of Pittsburg by Spargo, John
The genuineness of this winning little letter could never be doubted except by the most dryasdust of pedants.
From The Books of the New Testament by Pullan, Leighton
