Dried

Examples

• In each bladder was a small quantity of dried peas, or little pebbles, as I was afterwards informed. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Yes; there it lies on its side, dried up; except for its plumage, very like myself. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Originally no doubt, and for untold centuries, the use was confined to the hairy, undressed, fresh, or dried skins, known as pelts. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It consists of a series of silk disks saturated with a sizing of plumbago and well dried. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Having had his face put under the pump, and dried upon Mrs. Mann's gown, he was led into the awful presence of Mr. Bumble, the beadle. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• He had lain in a pile of straw in his sweat-soaked clothes and wound a blanket around him while he dried. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• When they were withered I had dried them and put them in a book that I was fond of. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Other mechanisms cut and divided the block into strips, which were then dipped at one end, dried and tied in bundles. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The young man took from his waistcoat a crumpled envelope, and turning to the table he shook out upon it five little dried orange pips. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• But soon she checked herself, dried her eyes, and went out at the glass door into the shrubbery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• A solution of nitrate of silver was then spread over one surface with a soft brush, and dried carefully before a fire in a darkened room. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Mr. Jones, a dried-in man of businessstood behind his desk: he seemed one of the greatest, and I one of the happiest of beings. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I heard the rain on the roof and smelled the hay and, when I went down, the clean smell of dried dung in the stable. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• One must bring his meditations cut and dried, or else cut and dry them afterward. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The wet wood which I had placed near the heat dried, and itself became inflamed. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The reason why those little preliminary explosions took place was that a little had spattered out on the edge of the filter paper, and had dried first and exploded. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Strange to say, this promise satisfied Julia, who immediately dried up her tears. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The felts were then removed, and the sheets were piled upon one another and again pressed, after which they were dried, sized, and finished. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• If all the drops in it were dried up, what would become of the sea? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• By the time I was settled, Rosanna had dried her own eyes with a very inferior handkerchief to mine--cheap cambric. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This frequently took place; but a high wind quickly dried the earth, and the season became far more pleasant than it had been. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Joaqu韓 repeated the slogan in his dried-up boy's voice without checking his digging for a moment. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The air must first be purified and dried. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Yes, the Gorgon HAS dried your tears, he said. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Clay, dried in the sun, was a very great fact in the lives of these people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The name, you see, is in perfectly black ink, which has dried itself. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• When they are dried before the oil is pressed out they are known as copra. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The dried gentleman seemed much surprised. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• All wore strange protruding girdles of dried grass about their hips and many were loaded with brass and copper anklets, armlets and bracelets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• There were women grinding dried plantain in crude stone mortars, while others were fashioning cakes from the powdered flour. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Typist: Michael