dewless

The day was the climax of a burning fortnight, of heat, draught, and dust, of baked, cracked, dewless land, and oily breezeless seas, of glaring days, passing through fierce fiery sunsets into stifling nights.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

There was a sense of blight in the air; the flowers were drooping in the garden, and the ground was parched and dewless.

The Woman in White 2003

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

The Land of Midian 2003

We slept well in the cool and dewless air, with little trouble from mosquitoes.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

Jellybean vaulted over the carcass of a reducing machine and planted her Tony Lama boots in the dewless grass.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues Robbins, Tom 1976

The sky told Struan that the weather would be fair, but the tang on the wind felt smooth and dry and dewless, without body.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

Wind south-east; cold dewless nights; the meat has dried after a fashion but not sufficient for keeping any length of time without further exposure to sun and air -- which we must do as soon as we get to camp for several days.

McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay

Half unconsciously she slipped down to the ground and found a bed on the warm and dewless grass.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

Often glittering like a diamond, he is every bit as dewless.

Alone Norman Douglas 1910

And the clear nights passed, bringing dewless dawns, till the ground cracked like a parched lip.

The Last Thunder Song 1904