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  • As he entered, he pulled a packet of red dust from his belt; Ruumahum was already scraping some of the dust-dry gall lining into a pile near the opening they had made.

    Shopgirls Frederick Barthelme 2010

  • A creosote bush can obtain water from soil that feels dust-dry to the touch.

    Adaptations of desert plants 2009

  • Meanwhile, on the bench the justices behave like a continuing constitutional convention, second-guessing elected officials on issues from school discipline to the outcome of the 2000 election, while leaving unresolved important, if dust-dry, legal questions that are largely invisible to the public.

    Of Clerks and Perks 2006

  • Bringing back nuclear power to the Pacific Northwest has been such a taboo subject in political circles that you would think the rivers would have to run dust-dry before the topic is accepted at wine parties in Magnolia.

    Follow the Democratic Rules Committee meeting online 2008

  • Meanwhile, on the bench the justices behave like a continuing constitutional convention, second-guessing elected officials on issues from school discipline to the outcome of the 2000 election, while leaving unresolved important, if dust-dry, legal questions that are largely invisible to the public.

    Of Clerks and Perks 2006

  • The setting was unmistakably Egyptian: a conference hall framed by the sparkling Red Sea on one side, and the vast, dust-dry Sinai on the other.

    No Peace In The Streets 2008

  • My throat had gone dust-dry and I couldn't speak or swallow.

    Analog Science Fiction and Fact 2004

  • Cuthbert's voice was dust-dry and shaky at the edges.

    Wizard and Glass King, Stephen 1997

  • He licked his parched lips with a dust-dry tongue, tasting the rust of blood.

    Curse of the Shadowmage Anthony, Mark, 1966- 1995

  • The man in the cockpit was u dust-dry mummy wearing a padded leather vest and a helmet with a spike on top.

    The Waste Lands King, Stephen, 1947- 1991

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