sawdusty
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Origin of sawdusty
Example Sentences
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They hack down palms, make sawdusty flour out of the pith.
From Time Magazine Archive
An exceedingly retiring public-house, with a bagatelle-board shadily visible in a sawdusty parlour shaped like an omnibus, and with a shelf of punch-bowls in the bar, would apprise me that I stood near consecrated ground.
From The Uncommercial Traveller by Dickens, Charles
The day, sun-riddled, stare-riddled, sawdusty, and white with glare, slouched into the clanging, banging, electric-pianoed, electrifying Babylonia of a Coney Island Saturday night.
From Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It by Hurst, Fannie
"Well, perhaps not so strange either," said Mr. M'Cosh, in his sawdusty voice, with his mouth full.
From A Marriage at Sea by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)
And there were lots of books—not the sawdusty, dry kind that Miss Sandal had in her house, but jolly good books, the kind you can't put down till you've finished.
From Oswald Bastable and Others by Brock, C. E. (Charles Edmund)
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