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dried-up
1. The cafe was closed and it was time to head back anyway, but before I did, I wanted to go a little further down to where I could just see a swamp of what looked like complete desolation; dried-up marsh and cracked puddles and decomposing vegetation like the ones that used to scare me as a child
2. Ugh, dried-up old stick, I said to myself and turned away
3. She looked under the leaf where a dried-up remnant of three sepals hung on
4. that my shirt was smeared with dried-up vomit, blood, and tons
5. Paul stared in disbelief at what seemed to be a ten-acre field with nothing inside it but an assortment of dead, dried-up sticks and weeds
6. They’re all dead and dried-up
7. Even in the dark I could tell the sleeves on his Spiderman shirt were crusty from dried-up snot
8. He started shuffling slowly towards us, his dried-up lips pulled back in a deathly grin
9. “Here, towards Valley of Fire State Park, and check out this dried-up river bed running from
10. Now that the law and all of its money had moved on to bigger and better places than the dried-up sage-brush dust bowl that now occupied the lower end of the county
11. You will be forced by Law to go back to all fifty stores, and return the fifty dried-up bottles of nail polish you have accumulated over ten years
12. Because if you throw away the receipt: you will be stuck with those fifty bottles of useless, dried-up nail polish for the rest of your damn life
13. Gaunt cattle, their ribs protruding and their heads hanging low, stood listless at the bottoms of dried-up stock ponds where the mud had dried and cracked into mosaics of tiles as hard as stone
14. The second man was a long, dried-up creature, with lank hair and sallow cheeks
15. Father Roman, dried-up, small, alert, wrinkled, with big round eyes, a sharp chin, and a great snuff-taker, was an old campaigner, too; he had shriven many simple souls on the battlefields of the Republic, kneeling by the dying on hillsides, in the long grass, in the gloom of the forests, to hear the last confession with the smell of gunpowder smoke in his nostrils, the rattle of muskets, the hum and spatter of bullets in his ears
16. The tree-ferns that had luxuriated in its spray had died around the dried-up pool, and the high ravine was only a big trench half filled up with the refuse of excavations and tailings
17. "My way ran down a dried-up watercourse, which we hoped would screen me from the enemy's sentries; but as I crept round the corner of it I walked right into six of them, who were crouching down in the dark waiting for me
18. But the idea of this dried-up pedant, this elaborator of small explanations about as important as the surplus stock of false antiquities kept in a vendor's back
19. Debby’s had a brown lunchsack that stank of baloney; Michelle’s a pack of dried-up markers
20. We all gathered near a dried-up fountain and waited for someone to take the lead
21. in the northern part of Karteh-Seh, along the banks of the dried-up Kabul River
22. ‘What devil brought them here?’ thought he, while Tikhon was putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest
23. In the flare that lighted the thin air of this dried-up sea of Mars he looked over his shoulder and saw the rocket that had brought them all, Captain Wilder and Cheroke and Hathaway and Sam Parkhill and himself, across a silent black space of stars to land upon a dead, dreaming world
24. Self-abandoned, relaxed, and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, and felt the torrent come: to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength
25. His mother, a dried-up old lady with black eyes and ringlets, screwed up her eyes, scanning her son, and smiled slightly with her thin lips
26. There was nothing now on this skeleton but a cross and the irons, from which his dried-up legs might easily have freed themselves
27. At one step from the dead man he stopped short, as if suddenly nailed to the spot; the naked, dried-up body, loaded with irons, had impressed him; he undid his chin-strap, removed his helmet (which was not at all necessary for him to do), and made the sign of the cross; he had a gray head, the head of a soldier who had seen much service
28. One was a grey-headed old pilgrim of the peasant class, and the other a little, dried-up monk, who sat demurely, with his eyes cast down
29. Forces are wasted in vain, and the masses, who at the present moment are thirsting for education, as the dried-up grass thirsts for rain, and are ready to receive it, and beg for it,—instead of a loaf receive a stone, and are perplexed to understand whether they were mistaken in regarding education as something good, or whether something is wrong in what is being offered to them
30. The grass and the leaves on the trees were covered with dust, the roads and dried-up salt marshes were baked so hard that they rang when trodden on
31. The dried-up tree stands apparently as firm as before,—it even looks firmer, because it is rougher,—but it is already weakened at the pith and is getting ready to fall
32. “What devil brought them here?” thought he, while Tíkhon was putting the nightshirt over his dried-up old body and gray-haired chest
33. He was a little, dried-up man, single, and a minister