| 单词 | dried-up |
| 例句 | I curl my toes, one on top of the other, to hide the dried-up, crusty skin surrounding each nail. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Least that way you ain’t constantly toting no dried-up things from your nose ’round in your pockets. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “You’re getting dried-up old mud on the carpet. Just like the kids.” Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z There were old prospectors, their faces wrinkled and brown from the sun, like dried-up apples. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Four years of high school...no, five. Because something would come up to delay me. Then four years of college. I’d be a dried-up old maid of twenty-five before I was finished.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The paint on the walls and ceiling was peeling, paint chips tumbling to the floor like dried-up petals, resembling the leaves falling from the September trees outside. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z That was probably from all the feedlot dust, which wasn’t really dust but dried-up cow manure. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The bird swooped toward him and then rose up over the building, high, high into the air, over the alley and the train tracks and the dried-up creek. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z On a morning work detail in December, a couple of weeks after his return to school, Shin discovered a dried-up ear of corn in a pile of straw and devoured it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was nothing on the back porch but a metal watering can and piles of dried-up leaves that had been pushed into a corner. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He spent fourteen months in a dried-up lake bed, where he did nothing except dig holes. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He points out the sun-bleached wooden moon bridge, slats missing, that arches across the dried-up pool. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Partly I was jealous of her; but how could I be jealous of a woman so obviously dried-up and unhappy? The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I examine photographs of what the weather leaves behind: dried-up lakes, wrecked shanty towns, mud-slides, people rowing boats around the roofs of their houses. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z But afore he could say a word, a old, dried-up colored woman hollered out, “Oh, my Lord! No! No! No! It caint be!” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z His eyes, slanting downward like the eyes of a fish, were expressionless as dried-up wells. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The note was on the same dried-up paper as the first two. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z He slammed his fist down on the pulpit, which caused all the dried-up palm fronds to shift suddenly sideways and begin falling forward, one at a time. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I run to the end of the bridge and cut onto the grass, down the embankment to the bottom, which is an old dried-up riverbed full of cigarette butts and beer bottles. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z It was the color of a dried-up rose, and Seven thought it was really pretty. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z “I—I don’t think he is a wild animal,” said Digory in a dried-up sort of voice. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z On a small altar sat a bowl with three dried-up, moldy apples. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes on a piece of dried-up chewing gum stuck to the seat in front of me while I sent laser thoughts zipping and zapping around the bus. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z We found the new orphanage in the northern part of Karteh-Seh, along the banks of the dried-up Kabul River. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The vinyl seats smelled stale and moldering and were littered with bits of caramel popcorn and skeins of hair and dried-up splatters of soda. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Finney disappeared again and returned with a bowl of dried-up muesli and a bottle of milk. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “He raced ahead of all his men to see her face the sooner, only to be left languishing whilst she ate lamb and figs with some dried-up old woman.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The soil was a baked reddish brown, like terra-cotta, with patches of dried-up stubble here and there. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Meggie liked the view of the surrounding hills, the swallows’ nests under the roof, the dried-up well that yawned darkly as if it went straight down to the earth’s core. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z “I can still smell what it smelled like in those summertime dried-up algae-frog-filled catching places,” he says. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z These tough, dried-up men moved restlessly up the coast and down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Money to install water pipes, or to repair the electric wires that had gone down in the storm and hung like limp, useless, dried-up worms. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a real old smell that came out of it too, like dried-up slobber and something dead. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Her face looked smaller, like a dried-up flower. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Howard waved as the bus pulled away, but I turned my eyes back to that dried-up gum. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z I opened a drawer full of rubber bands, old batteries, rusted spoons, and what I hoped was a dried-up raisin. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z In due course, however, as the black circular mass around each errant—and by now dried-up—sugarwater splash grew to the size of a half-dollar, the volunteer bestirred himself into action. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z My eyes rise up to the ceiling and stay there, glued to the dried-up wet-tissue bombs hanging on for dear life. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Wilted yellowing plants and dried-up flowers planted in coffee cans lined the edges of the porch. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z She pushed harder and felt the dried-up, dull flesh give beneath her thumbs, the eyes squish into nothingness. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z I’m preaching, but I also believe that if I live here much longer, I’ll turn into a dried-up old beanstalk. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z One held an ear of dried-up corn, another a turkey’s foot, meant to stand for the whole turkey. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I find a solitary cat’s eye marble rolling around at the back of the drawer, and some old dried-up chestnuts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z They had names like Needles and Bouse, Pie, Goffs, and Why, and they were near places like the Superstition Mountains, the dried-up Soda Lake, and the Old Woman Mountain. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a dried-up marsh pocked by the footprints of animals. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t think too much of fate or fortunes, but a dried-up spring sure didn’t seem like a great start. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Remedies for hot flashes. She’s going to help all the dried-up old ladies.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z My parents and I drive to the A Street Bridge and climb down to the dried-up riverbed that runs below to lay some flowers on the spot where Eleanor was killed. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Inside were half a dozen shriveled brown objects, looking more like dried-up kidneys than real stones. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z “You’re not even as heavy as a little bag of dried-up aspen leaves.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z 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. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The air above the dried-up stream was buzzing with insects, in the heat. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Feet over head, feet over head, feet over head, over and over again, grunting and thumping his way to the bottom, leaving a cloud of dust and burnt, dried-up grass trailing after him. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z I always liked bees and honey and it made me feel better to think of bees than being some old dead mummy with a dried-up walnut brain. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z All the vases and baskets were stuffed with broken pens, dried-up gumdrops, sprung paper clips and smudgy erasers. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z In some places, the ground was covered with the salt of dried-up lakes. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z I should know, I once covered my entire kitchen in dried-up raw egg, chives and shame. Take back your lunch hour (all of it!) 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z After meeting in 2014 at South by Southwest, where Littman engineered a performance that featured Byrne playing in a dried-up creek bed, the pair were immediately aligned, creatively, and for about a year, romantically. How Julie Byrne’s Astral Folk Music Took Flight 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z In place of satisfying spectacle, then, we get a movie pocked with sappy symbolism and facile foreshadowing — like Moore’s fixation on the abandoned eggs in a dried-up bird’s nest. ‘After the Wedding’ Review: Secrets and Sighs 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z Kent, he added, “gave us the freedom to just be those people — that it wasn’t a sacred text, that this was about human beings, not a dried-up historical piece.” Filming Eugene O’Neill When the Elements (and Investors) Don’t Cooperate 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z I think Rachel is redeemable, but she does have a dried-up little pea of a heart. 'Orphan Black' co-creator answers all your finale questions, teases season 4 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z Chuck a drill bit into your driver and zip through the dried-up gunk in the tip. 56 Essential Survival Skills for Homeowners 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z Every time I come into the kitchen, I find a few coffee grounds to sponge up here, or a dried-up splatter of last night's red sauce to blot out there. "Clean is never clean enough": Are white countertops good for obsessive cooks? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Before my eyes the incredible first images of Titan's surface were revealed, showing dried-up lake beds, river channels and smooth pebbles. Destination Titan: Mission impossible? 2011-04-08T16:21:00Z One crisis asks them to redefine their operations to account for dried-up revenue, disrupted exhibit schedules and fewer visitors. Coronavirus shutdowns and charges of white supremacy: American art museums are in crisis 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch. Creating a spectacle of slaughter at the movies: Ambush at Kamikaze Pass 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z If dried-up quarts of paint have any value, your neighbor should donate them to charitable organizations. It’s Bad Enough That My Mom Died. Now My Dad Is Dating Her Nurse? 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Their creativity is nourished by loamy mess, by dried-up death and leafy success, by the quest for the perfect shade of red or the best spot for a stone. Artists works show how their gardens grow: The seeds of creativity 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z There is also a dried-up well in Oyamada’s brief tale, a follow-up to her similarly enigmatic debut, “The Factory,” but it’s only one of the many holes in this surreal and mesmerizing book. She Tumbled Into a Hole, and Her World Broke Open 2020-10-06T04:00:00Z All you have to do is shine the light around the room, and you'll be able to spot any dried-up stains that you may not have noticed. How to eliminate pet odors in your home 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The closest that the region has come to a star turn were cameos in “Star Wars” movies, thanks to its otherworldly dunes and dried-up salt lake. The 41 Places to Go in 2011 2011-01-07T21:03:56Z The dried-up residential work hit his firm especially hard. Steal this album: What happens if no one pays for music? 2012-06-20T11:45:00Z And on "The Pearl," the drums sound as if they're echoing from somewhere miles down a desert highway, beyond tumble-down shacks and dried-up oil wells. Review: 'The Veils' dabble in desert rock beauty 2013-04-23T18:46:08Z All around the country, museums reeling from dried-up revenue streams are considering their options. A Baltimore museum tried to raise money by selling three pricey artworks. It backfired stupendously. 2020-12-04T05:00:00Z Though we know from the outset that the story is bound to end in tears – or would, if the characters weren’t so dried-up emotionally – it still has the power to hypnotize. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Trapped 2013-07-01T15:07:20Z His renditions Tuesday felt dried-up, drained of the surprise he once found in the music every night. Outsider no more, Jack White brings 'Lazaretto' to the Fonda Theatre 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z So I looked around at what I had: some old, dried-up acrylic paint and grocery bags. Simone Forti’s Experiments Transcribing Bodies in Motion 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z Our eyes will be beads of dried-up jerky by then, but at least there’s sweet relief on the horizon. Peaky Blinder: We’re in the age of too much television, and FX has the numbers to prove it 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z I appreciate the grace that fusty, grainy-looking granite counters afford, allowing us to leave paprika spills and dried-up lemon juice for another day because we simply can't see them. "Clean is never clean enough": Are white countertops good for obsessive cooks? 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Like kids playing lacrosse in a dried-up hockey rink, a teenager peeking into his neighbors’ windows with a drone, and a red fox hunching his back and relieving himself on a beautifully manicured lawn. From Montreal to Minnesota, by Inland Sea 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z In the Amazon rainforest, the drought has been so severe communities dependent on the dried-up waterways are stranded without supply of fuel, food or filtered water. It’s not yet summer in Brazil, but a dangerous heat wave is sweeping the country 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z Now he walks across the dried-up lake bed. In South America's Andes, a shrinking Lake Titicaca rings climate alarm bell 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z The 2021 announcement of the astonishingly ancient age of the footprints, which were found alongside a dried-up lake in the park, created controversy among archaeologists. Ancient Footprints Affirm People Lived in the Americas More than 20,000 Years Ago 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z Beets, spinach, and endive died where they grew, with telltale dried-up, silver-metallic leaves. The sordid tale of L.A.'s forever war on smog 2023-10-01T04:00:00Z The days were warm and dusty, a hallmark of the landscape whose dried-up lake bed, known as the playa, consists of a caustic alkaline dust akin to the texture of flour. Commentary: How dancing through rain and mud helped relight the lost fire of Burning Man 2023-09-10T04:00:00Z Fernandez added that joining the bloc would be a "great opportunity" to strengthen the nation, which has been in economic crisis with a weakened currency, dried-up foreign reserves and spiraling inflation. 'New scenario' opens for Argentina with BRICS invitation, Fernandez says 2023-08-24T04:00:00Z You, Ken and a small dog all face down with a handful of dried-up fruit flies and the occasional cockroach. A love letter to Weird Barbie 2023-08-08T04:00:00Z Banks seeking to sell commercial-property loans are encountering a dried-up market with few options for an easy exit. Property loans are so unappealing that banks want to dump them 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z On McBride’s latest assignment in Texas, he’s standing in a dried-up riverbed in the Rio Grande River, a spot locals tragically refer to as the “Rio Sand.” Every drop counts in America’s waterways crisis 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Down by the dried-up river bed, one can sense Nikopol’s grander days. Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Is Just One of Innumerable Problems for Its Neighbors 2023-07-03T04:00:00Z Fish also die when dried-up pollutants from cars and lorries on roads wash into rivers during flash storms. Hottest June kills UK fish and threatens insects 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z As he walks the lake's dried-up bed, sailing instructor Claude Carriere checks on sailing boats stranded a few metres from the water. Farming and tourism under threat as winter drought dries up France's Lake Montbel 2023-03-17T04:00:00Z Around France, residents are sharing images of dried-up riverbeds and shrunken lakes — shocking sights in the depths of winter. Italy, France confront 2nd year of western Europe drought 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z After years of cutbacks, the dried-up lake bed is like something out of dystopian science fiction. Want to solve climate change? This California farm kingdom holds a key 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z This dropoff has led to a surge in the number of dried-up wells in recent years and has forced some towns to rely on deliveries of bottled water. Will California’s ‘atmospheric river’ storms end the drought? 2023-01-05T05:00:00Z A dried-up Rhine River threatened to tip Germany’s economy into recession, because cargo ships could not carry standard loads. How Water Cycles Can Help Prevent Disastrous Floods and Drought 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z A dried-up canal slices through the heart of Tijuana, a streak of negative space in a city where every other square foot appears to be claimed. To live and die in Tijuana, Mexico’s new fentanyl capital “I stopped farming because it was impossible to irrigate the agricultural land,” said Ahmed Hammoud, standing next to newly dried-up banks of the Euphrates in northern Syria. Middle East's Fertile Crescent dries up as rains fail 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z On another farm, rushing water had carved a new — and now dried-up — river bed. What Hurricanes Taught Puerto Rico About Feeding Itself 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z Salmon migrate from the ocean to rivers to spawn at this time of year, but this month social media pictures showed thousands of dead salmon in a dried-up stream in central British Columbia. Canada's drought-stricken British Columbia bracing for floods when rains return 2022-10-13T04:00:00Z The Perseverance Rover discovered organic material in a rock found in a dried-up river delta on the planet, the U.S. space agency announced Thursday. NASA Rover discovery suggests life could have survived on Mars 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Then it made a sprint to the western rim of the crater, toward what led planetary scientists to choose Jezero as the landing site: a dried-up river delta. Life on Mars? This Could Be the Place NASA’s Rover Helps Us Find It. 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z In Bonn, Germany, authorities have warned residents not to walk around dried-up riverbanks because resurfaced unexploded munitions from World War II could detonate. Europe was once green and water-rich. Now, it’s more and more like California 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z The Ministry of Emergency Management warned on Monday that parts of China were "alternating between drought and flood" and urged vigilance this week in monitoring dried-up riverbeds being inundated by intense rain. From Pakistan to Texas, big rains after extreme heat deliver double punch 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z But will this year's dried-up Colorado basin be a permanent situation, something that we might see every year in the future? A shrinking Lake Powell could herald an even worse water crisis in the Southwest's future 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Cracked soil, dried-up rivers, withered crops: Spain's rich land is becoming impoverished by a man-made climate emergency. Spain's olive oil producers devastated by worst ever drought 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Pictures of scorched, mud-baked lakes and dried-up rivers have appeared on social media. Heat-weary Chongqing, Sichuan now on flood alert amid torrential rain 2022-08-29T04:00:00Z Previously unseen dinosaur tracks dot a dried-up riverbed in Central Texas. Drought is exposing world relics — from dinosaur tracks to Nazi ships 2022-08-26T04:00:00Z Three gunmen popped out, took over the bus and drove it to a dried-up canal where a second van was waiting, according to the Times. Captor paroled 46 years after hijacking bus, trying to bury 26 kids alive 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z A few fields of dried-up poppies are all that remain of the most recent crop. Afghanistan: Peace at a price in the Taliban’s heartlands 2022-08-19T04:00:00Z From all the pictures of parched fields, dusty soil and dried-up reservoirs, it might appear obvious there's a drought. The science of drought explained in pictures 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z In northern Italy an unexploded World War Two bomb emerged from the dried-up River Po. In pictures: Drought hits Europe's rivers and crops 2022-08-08T04:00:00Z The Po is Italy's longest river, flowing from the south-western Alps down to the Adriatic Sea - but annual satellite images from this year show expanding patches of dried-up riverbed as a result of extreme drought. Extreme drought: Dried-up Italian river reveals unexploded WWII bomb 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z Its focus is on a dried-up river delta along the crater rim, a prime location where signs of ancient life might be preserved if any organisms ever lived there. NASA Will Send More Helicopters to Mars 2022-07-27T04:00:00Z But annual satellite images show expanding patches of dried-up riverbed. Italians wait for rain where longest river runs dry 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Schwartz said he waits until all the seeds have matured on his dried-up native annuals and grasses before he cuts them down as a fire prevention tool. Oh, no! Your native plants look dead. Here’s what to do 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z Over the last year, dozens of cities have been the scene of protests over economic hardship, air pollution and drinking water, including riots over dried-up Lake Urmia in northwest Iran. Why are protests erupting in Iran while nuclear talks drag on in Vienna? An explainer 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z He is in a concrete channel that appears to be a dried-up man-made river. Review: Apocalypse on the L.A. River? The novel 'City of Orange' blends humor and dread 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z Both do excellent jobs of tackling light spills and cleaning up fine debris the vacuum missed, but neither can handle tougher jobs like ketchup or dried-up milk. Deebot X1 Omni review: the do-everything robot vacuum 2022-04-24T04:00:00Z Of course, the test always comes when paychecks start being missed — but the owners will face the same pressure as they deal with empty stadiums and dried-up revenue streams. MLB deserves scorn after being steered to ‘disastrous outcome’ by Rob Manfred, owners 2022-03-01T05:00:00Z Some dried-up annuals — plants that just live for one season — will break off easily and can either be crumbled by hand or quickly chopped with hand clippers into garden mulch. Oh, no! Your native plants look dead. Here’s what to do 2022-06-13T04:00:00Z After months of scrutinizing the crater floor, the mission team is now preparing to head for the main scientific event: investigating a dried-up river delta along the west rim of Jezero. On Mars, a NASA Rover and Helicopter’s Year of Surprise and Discovery 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z And in late November, riot police in the central city of Isfahan fired birdshot at protesters gathered in the dried-up bed of the River Zayandeh-Roud. Crocodiles turn on humans amid Iran water crisis 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z Years ago, Mr. da Costa said he bought clay from the dried-up lake beds within a few miles of his operation. A Slow-Motion Climate Disaster: The Spread of Barren Land 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z Probably exactly the same: hills, valleys, a few trees, a lot of dried-up grass. ‘The Whole Place Feels Wrong’: Voices Across America on What the Climate Crisis Stole 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z The team found that the embryos could indeed successfully develop in a dried-up pool if the eggs encasing them were protected by slimy frog foam. A Frothy Mucus Nest Protects Frog Eggs from Drought 2021-10-30T04:00:00Z Carcasses of flamingo hatchlings and adults scattered across the cracked, dried-up lake bed. Turkey’s Lake Tuz dries up due to climate change, farming 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z So low are levels of the Paraná running through Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina that some ranchers are herding cattle across dried-up riverbeds typically lined with cargo-toting barges. Dying crops, spiking energy bills, showers once a week. In South America, the climate future has arrived. 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z The reality behind those horrific statistics was writ small here in Kulangar, whose little bridge, over a dried-up stream, connects one side of the village to the other — but divided warring forces. In Afghanistan's war-torn countryside, America's exit means one thing: Peace 2021-09-17T04:00:00Z If you know what to look for in dappled satellite images of desert—slight depressions, subtle color shifts—the dried-up ghosts of prehistoric lakes pop out against the sand fields of the Arabian Peninsula. Lush wetlands lured waves of early humans out of Africa, stone tools suggest 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z Dozens of horses were found dead near a dried-up watering hole in northern Arizona in 2018. Mustang roundups fuel deepening debate as drought grips West 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z It wasn’t uncommon for one of their Humvees to become hopelessly mired in a dried-up riverine bed. U.S. Afghan pullout weighs heavy on vets 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z At a time of epic high temperatures, dried-up cherries with almost no financial value are just one of the problems that farmers are facing in eastern Washington, one of the country’s most productive agricultural regions. ‘Let the Birds Eat Them’: Crops Shrivel as Heat Wave Hits Washington 2021-07-03T04:00:00Z The governor’s plan runs the gamut — providing safe drinking water for small communities with dried-up wells, cleaning up contaminated groundwater and protecting salmon, among other things. Follow the warning signs: California is facing a devastating drought. It's time to take action 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z The Mars helicopter, named Ingenuity, traveled from Earth tucked under NASA’s Perseverance rover, which landed in February on the mission to search for signs of ancient life near a dried-up river delta. NASA Mars Helicopter’s First Flight: When to Watch 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z Following a more rigorous process may well end up unearthing more examples of people facing searing heat and dried-up wells, and still finding ways to survive. Did climate change cause societies to collapse? New research upends the old story 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z But when Connally lifted the preserved animal up, “his dried-up leg came off and broke,” Fields said. 'Whoa! What's happening?' Horny toads are disappearing. Can they be saved? 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Jezero Crater was selected as the landing site because of the dried-up river delta that protrudes into the crater. NASA’s Mars rover, Perseverance, aims for dicey landing to search for ancient life 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z “They call me a ‘dried-up old runt of a magician,’ ” he told the Associated Press in 1986. James Randi, magician and escape artist devoted to debunking the paranormal, dies at 92 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z This is the mysterious tale told by the longest track of fossil footprints in the world, which stretches over 1.5 kilometres in the dried-up lake bed of White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Daily briefing: A plan to make journal abstracts free to read in one place 2020-10-11T04:00:00Z The image, taken by NASA’s Odyssey orbiter, showed a sinuous dried-up river channel leading into one side of the crater. How NASA Found the Ideal Hole on Mars to Land In 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z The bygone oases of Mars are now mirages of a distant past, and modern Mars is a dried-up husk. 3 Great Mysteries About Life on Mars 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z It doesn’t flower well, and the dried-up leaves hang on stubbornly all winter. It Isn’t Summer Without Hydrangeas 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z Perhaps the sloths stuck around a dried-up watering hole too long. Paleontologists Dig Into a Giant Sloth Boneyard 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z “They make the life without glory,” she says, spitefully, of the dried-up women who mock her. American Dreams in “The Rose Tattoo” and “Soft Power” 2019-10-21T04:00:00Z A few miles away, April Hebert watched her 1-year-old son Collins toss rocks into a partially dried-up pond at a park in Helena. Southern drought deepens; 11 million affected 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z Finding a bunch of old notebooks covered in dried-up fish slime may not be most people’s idea of a treat. Top stories: manta ray ‘friendships,’ preventing suicide, and a hidden hotbed of Zika 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The lions cower in fear while looking onto the remains of their homeland – the dusty, dried-up earth and the craggy, leafless trees. The Lion King missed an opportunity to talk about the climate crisis | Greta Moran 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The dried-up carnage is still visible and odorous along the road while dark specks in the pavement show where many other frogs were crushed. Frog population explodes in region of Vermont 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z There’s a horribly photogenic landscape of rusting boats on a dried-up seabed that looks like a lunar surface. The lost Louvre of Uzbekistan: the museum that rescued banned masterpieces 2019-05-21T04:00:00Z The Montana Standard in Butte reports staff at the Anaconda watercraft inspection station found dead and dried-up mussels on the transom and trim tabs of the boat Monday. Inspectors find invasive mussels on boat in western Montana 2019-04-15T04:00:00Z This is no dried-up cleric but a heartthrob manipulator. Review: 4 girls and 1 hidden camera add up to a captivatingly creepy comedy at East West Players 2019-02-09T05:00:00Z SYDNEY, Australia — At a dried-up waterhole in Australia’s far north, wild horses were found dead or dying. Across Australia, Yet Another Scorching Summer 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z “I hope they do something with the ugly land and bring more people here, more jobs, so that it’s not such a sad little dried-up town, because tourism isn’t enough.” Trump shrank this monument for coal, but few care to dig 2019-01-14T05:00:00Z Even a brilliantly sunny day couldn’t dress up the dull palette of invasive grasses that had transformed the slope into a dried-up weed patch. Southern California's ecosystems evolved to survive fire. But not like this 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z Newspaper photographers got hold of camels and marched them across dried-up riverbeds to make the English countryside look like Arabia. The British Heat Wave and Aerial Archeology 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z Slyly, Mr Yan writes himself into this book, as a dried-up hack whose arid and baffling novels resemble “rotten fruit” or “deserted graves”. Yan Lianke’s dark satire of modern China 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z Of the great Katharine Hepburn, Beaton is heard assessing not her talent, but her physical appearance, comparing the actress, somewhat dismayingly, to “a dried-up boot.” Review | ‘Love, Cecil’ paints an admiring if shallow portrait of the artist Cecil Beaton 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z But early in its promising existence the planet somehow lost its way, transforming into a desiccated orb of dried-up ocean-, river- and lakebeds. Deep Within Mars, Liquid Water Offers Hope for Life 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z In May, dozens of horses were found dead on the edge of a dried-up watering hole in northeastern Arizona. Drought forces emergency measures for US West’s wild horses 2018-07-23T04:00:00Z Salazar says the remains were in a desiccated or dried-up state. Baby’s remains found in trunk in drug search at Texas home 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z I've watched her lead friends through dances she created, make bandages from spare fabric for her injured four-year-old sister and fashion a rope extension so our bucket can reach the bottom of our dried-up well. Unleashing the Energy Trapped within Undereducated Girls 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z Somehow, that dried-up Confederate ring conveyed the essence of the American ethos better than any great seal or billowing flag. Opinion | Yes, ‘you can learn something from anything’ 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Below her is a 15-foot drop, straight down to a dried-up riverbed. 'Lives will be lost': Bangladesh rains promise further misery for Rohingya 2018-03-01T05:00:00Z I crossed a bridge over a dried-up riverbed through which trickled streams of chemical runoff. The brutal world of sheep fighting: the illegal sport beloved by Algeria’s angry young men 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z He cleans out every house, removing and burying the owners’ dried-up corpses, dead of no clear cause. I Think We’re Alone Now is a quiet, contemplative look at life after the apocalypse 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Recently, he was denied permission to install portable toilets on a dried-up riverbed, site of an encampment of roughly 400 homeless. Food, showers, tents: Does the help help the homeless? 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z First, an illustration confronts potential loss; with “newt,” for example, we see a dried-up pond and a bare outline of the creature’s body, as though stolen from the scene. How the loss of vivid, exacting language diminishes our world 2017-12-08T05:00:00Z Here and there, tiny, dried-up olives lay on the ground. How Climate Change Is Playing Havoc With Olive Oil (and Farmers) 2017-10-24T04:00:00Z I’ve watched her lead friends through dances she created, make bandages from spare fabric for her injured 4-year-old sister, and fashion a rope-extension so our bucket can reach the bottom of our dried-up well. Mass-Energy Equivalence and the Power of Girls 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z “I threw that dried-up plate of white stuff away,” she explains. A&E documentary 'Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G.' takes a fascinating — and authorized — look at the rapper's too-short story 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z To the north, under a Sonoma Coast blue sky, a crowd gathers on the water’s edge of 1,000 acres of dried-up hayfield to see a little miracle. How the Bay Area Is Restoring Nature's Delicate Balance Murphy was there, he told the man, in the hope of understanding, and documenting the Riverbed – a highly secretive commune of countercultural British settlers living in a dried-up riverbed hidden deep within the mountains. The Riverbed exhibition: photographs of a secret Spanish mountain commune 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In February, Rauner announced he hired Munger as deputy governor to deal with nonprofit agencies struggling under the strain of dried-up state financial support. Employee health fund tapped for Illinois official's salary 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z There is nothing but a burned-out wooden bridge and dried-up sagebrush stalks, pale and scattered like so many bones. How a woman solved her sister’s 39-year-old murder case 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z There was a point where Andrew and I lamented that we would have to give up the river, and just make it a dried-up riverbed. The Borrowed Time animators on how evolving Pixar tech made them 'scramble to not fall apart' 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Fred Woehl, an Arkansas horse trainer and educator who chairs the advisory board, said in an interview Thursday that the group saw horse carcasses near a dried-up watering hole. Rumor has it the government is going to kill 45,000 horses. Here’s the reality. 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z The deed includes the acreage as well as an old house used as an office, a garage, a cold-storage building once used to store fish feed and a dried-up pond. District aims to turn old fish hatchery into learning center 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z Approaching the old airfield, on the branch of a dying, dried-up oak, a prideful scrub jay hopped and flapped as if in hopes of scaring us off. On Santa Cruz Island, they killed the cows, sheep, and bees. Now it’s time to finish the job 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z Clinton, in this depiction, is both a weak girl and a dried-up old crone. Trump’s sickening attacks on Clinton’s health 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z “I witnessed income inequality, where capitalism is detrimental to our planet. I saw child slavery, I saw dried-up lakes, I saw displaced farmers,” Ahmed says. Ripples of a revolution: what will Bernie Sanders' supporters do next? 2016-06-09T04:00:00Z Southwest of the delta in Bac Lieu, a major shrimp-raising province, signs are planted on dried-up shrimp ponds advertising land for sale or for lease. Delta drought gives glimpse into bleak future for mighty Mekong 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z In the opening pages, the manager - newly-installed, after a career in banking - walks into a branch for the first time and discovers rotting fish and meat, and dried-up vegetables. Japan's curious passion for the business novel - BBC News 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z The dried-up bed of the Gila river, which was once the tribes’ lifeblood, is at the town’s eastern flank with the San Tan mountains as backdrop. A reservation town fighting alcoholism, obesity and ghosts from the past 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z Mr. McCarthy, who spent two and a half years researching the screenplay, also depicted reporters sifting through dried-up newspaper clippings filed away in worn manila envelopes in the newsroom “morgue.” In ‘Spotlight,’ an Oscar Favorite, Dogged and Ink-Stained Heroes 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z Pictures beamed back to Earth in the 1970s showed a surface crossed by dried-up rivers and plains once submerged beneath vast ancient lakes. Nasa scientists find evidence of flowing water on Mars 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z No. A filmmaker and his buddies went to a dried-up lakebed in Nevada to do just that. Hamm, Apple, and a look at the week ahead 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z A filmmaker and his buddies went to a dried-up lakebed in Nevada to do just that. Earth is a marble in this scale model solar system in the desert 2015-09-19T04:00:00Z The drought’s toll on California has been measured mostly in terms of idled cropland, dried-up domestic wells and brown lawns. California drought is killing off baby salmon 2015-09-14T04:00:00Z Cities near dried-up riverbeds get the worst of it. Sandstorms give Phoenix a break from oppressive heat, but sometimes they turn deadly 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Living with a dried-up well has turned one of life’s simplest tasks into a major chore for Lozano, a 40-year-old disabled Army veteran and family man. When the wells run dry: California neighbors cope in drought 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Cities, barred from using drinking water to irrigate grass on street medians, have erected signs explaining the reason for the dried-up turf. Big month for conservation: Californians cut water use by 31% in July 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “I wanted to get to the human side and not just the old, dried-up, drug-addict side,” she said, recalling the exchange. The simple idea that could transform US criminal justice | Tina Rosenberg 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z But Schaab, 70, wants to retire and the program’s demise is being spurred by dried-up funding and the lack of a storage location from which to operate. Clothing charity for Grand Rapids-area students to close 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z The RAF Wing Commander will again be at the controls when Bloodhound SSC runs across a dried-up lakebed in Northern Cape, South Africa, towards the end of the year. A science news preview of 2015 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z He led the prospectors to a dried-up curving river channel. Gold’s glitter lures modern prospectors 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z The owner had given the girl some dried-up nail polish. For longtime Montgomery resident, chief's gesture 'spoke volumes' 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z For artists, designers and children alike, those days of rifling through a box of dried-up felt-tips in search of the perfect shade may soon be over. Paint the rainbow: the Scribble Pen that lets you draw in 16 million colours 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z In the dried-up fields of California's Central Valley, farmers like Dofflemyer are selling their cattle. California drought: Why some farmers are 'exporting water' to China 2014-02-19T00:40:50Z Specifically, researchers believe the now dried-up lakebed may have supported colonies of microbes, the same type that are found in caves and hydrothermal vents on Earth. Curiosity stumbles upon new evidence of life of Mars 2013-12-09T20:52:00Z The researchers also took sediment samples of a dried-up lake in the Hudson Bay lowlands, which allowed them to look at evaporation going back for two centuries. Tundra Lakes Drying at Rate Unprecedented in 200 Years 2013-12-04T23:17:17.911Z River does not flow much of anywhere — it’s pretty much a series of dried-up pipes in a concrete channel. Couch Slouch: In sports salaries, Los Angeles is trying to take title from New York 2013-03-31T22:38:32Z Like a real phone and a toy phone, or a working marker and a dried-up marker. Three-Year Olds Know Better 2013-02-18T20:45:00.280Z The dirt road followed the dried-up acequias, or canals, and the long rows of withered quince trees that had once grown beside them. In the Garden: In Tucson, a Search for Fruit the Missionaries Knew 2012-11-21T23:41:36Z Homeowners with brown, dried-up lawns are turning to "lawn painting" to liven up their yards. New York area homeowners turning to "lawn painting" 2012-07-19T20:30:53Z Vast lakes had come and gone in the valleys, the dust from their dried-up beds leaving chemical imprints in the ice. Lonnie Thompson, Climate Scientist 2012-07-03T01:49:28Z His disciple, St. Eusebius, carried one hundred and fifty pounds of iron, and lived for three years in a dried-up well. History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) 2012-04-27T02:00:34.267Z It really seemed advisable to hurry, and, notwithstanding Mrs. Gainsborough’s expostulations, the speed of the party was doubled down a rocky descent to a dried-up watercourse with high banks. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z Mohammad then had his she-camel led to him and, mounting, rode to a dried-up well in which he ordered twenty-four of his best-known enemies to be buried. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z The ground was a black peaty soil, with a short dried-up grass. March to Magdala 2012-04-19T02:00:32.620Z But I found nothing, until late in the afternoon, when I came, of a sudden, upon the dried-up skin of a small woodland deer. Treasure of Kings Being the Story of the Discovery of the \\"Big Fish,\\" or the Quest of the Greater Treasure of the Incas of Peru. 2012-04-09T02:00:30.007Z It is as quiet and peaceful, by force of contrast to the dried-up veldt around, as some oasis in the desert. The Siege of Mafeking (1900) 2012-04-04T02:01:01.773Z They followed this to the left, and came presently to a gully, a dried-up watercourse, up which it was possible to climb. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z At the foot of the hill on which the monastery was built, the caravan halted, close to a great tree that grew on the brink of a dried-up wady, and began to organise the encampment. The Life of Mohammad The Prophet of Allah 2012-04-25T02:01:04.030Z They found Cortes, sleeping heavily, in a little dried-up watercourse well screened by trees. Across the Cameroons A Story of War and Adventure 2012-03-19T02:00:28.667Z When her companion, a dried-up little Frenchwoman with a thriving streak of black moustache, had withdrawn, he said: “Mother, I am a miserable egoist and a scoundrel.” The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z A flowerless and fruitless tree, A dried-up stream, a mateless bird, They live, yet never living be, They die, their music all unheard. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Let the rebel babes o' Boston die snivelling at their rebel mothers' dried-up breasts! Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z His cows in spring looked more like rails Set up on legs, than living cattle; And when they switched their dried-up tails The very bones in them would rattle. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 12, March 22, 1884 A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside 2012-02-24T03:00:26.570Z Often, too, he had looked in at the old deserted cloister garden, with its dried-up fountain and a few pale autumn roses against the wall of the little chapel. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z The Frenchwoman’s dried-up smile turned to a gleam of compassion. The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia 2012-03-18T02:00:21.430Z Thirsty wild creatures stirred in the shadow of the bluffs and rustled through the withered grass beside the dried-up creeks. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z They will pause on the banks of some dried-up river, now nothing but a sandy tract, and feel instinctively that underneath that sand is the water for which they thirst. The Animal Story Book 2011-12-06T03:00:25.427Z His dried-up face became seamed with subdued merriment, while Joe went the colour of a geranium; and then, when in the depths of despair, he of a sudden made a discovery. A Boy of the Dominion A Tale of Canadian Immigration 2011-12-05T03:00:47.097Z As for Sherry, it will serve to sharpen the wits of a dried-up attorney, but is poor stuff to weave into heroes. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z Now, alas! they belonged to Don Salvador, a little, dried-up old man of Valencia, who so tormented old Barret, that he even dreamed of him at night. The Cabin [La barraca] 2011-12-01T03:00:23.247Z After a vigorous hammering and the reckless use of oil the pair of horses were at last just able to haul it, groaning vehemently, through the dried-up swamp. The Mistress of Bonaventure 2011-11-28T03:00:22.190Z Nothing fresh or good has ever come into existence without a convulsion of the old, dried-up forms. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Imagine a camera panning the dessicated Texas landscape as a voice intones details of the brutal 2011 drought — a dried-up Brazos River, 80 days of 100-degree-plus temperatures in some places, and so on. Green Blog: Thirsty Power Plants Threaten Watersheds 2011-11-16T15:58:50Z Like stars into a cloud withdrawn— Like music laid asleep In dried-up fountains—like a stricken dawn Where sudden tempests sweep. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 2011-11-03T02:00:15.113Z In the dry season it looks very different with brown, dried-up hills in the place of green. My Experiences in Manipur and the Naga Hills 2011-10-26T02:00:28.847Z A dried-up IPO market matters because stock debuts aren’t just a chance for tech whizzes to become overnight billionaires and ring the bell at the New York Stock Exchange. Companies thinking of going public take a look at the stock market and decide to wait 2011-10-24T13:56:05Z There were two dried-up, little, Boston old maids there too—queer creatures—who were much impressed with High Art without knowing anything about it. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Near the king, stood the privy councillor, Dr. Lex, a small, dried-up looking man with thick grey hair, sharp, intelligent features, and a modest, almost bashful manner. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z Putting his hand to his breast, he touched dried-up skin. Flemish Legends 2011-10-10T02:00:21.467Z It is flowing through the streets, covering all of the dried-up previous layers of dread. The Fifth Down: Eagles Are a Dream Team That Makes Fans Scream 2011-10-07T18:50:37Z But the greatest success came in the Welsh rarebit which a master hand had evolved from the stale damper and the dried-up cheese. Denis Dent A Novel 2011-10-04T02:00:16.973Z I'd as soon try to love a hissing rattlesnake, standing coiled in my path, as such a dried-up bundle of devilment as you are. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z The wind whistled on the bare steppe and went groaning through the yellow dried-up grass. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z The mill-pond had shrunk to a pool, and grass began to show far down its dried-up sides. Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z There is hardly any interval between the nose and the stubborn little chin, which reminds one of a dried-up crabapple. My Memoirs 2011-09-13T02:00:28.713Z “Ah!” said Honor, and gazed thoughtfully through the open window out upon the dried-up garden. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Is he joking, the dried-up, little, old Jew, the bag-of-bones with the odd gleam in his deeply sunken eyes? Stories and Pictures 2011-08-30T02:00:28.080Z There was nothing now on this skeleton but a cross and the irons, from which his dried-up legs might easily have freed themselves. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z He was a dried-up corpse that could not decay. The Swedish Fairy Book 2011-08-26T02:00:23.380Z He was a dried-up individual of mysterious appearance and age. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z On the way he met an old woman, who was cutting fuel from a dried-up tree. Tales of the Sun or Folklore of Southern India 2011-08-09T02:00:29.493Z And Julie treasured a sweeter memory of the green Elysium—a dried-up flower of memory, but once a rose, nevertheless, carefully guarded from the world, hidden indeed from herself most of the time. The ghosts of their ancestors 2011-08-08T02:00:20.667Z His skin was burnt to a dull brown colour, and had a curious dried-up appearance, but his blue eyes shone with a boy-like gleam. A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z He was a little, yellow, dried-up old man, with a red wig, flat ears, and hollow cheeks. The Blockade of Phalsburg An Episode of the End of the Empire 2011-07-27T02:00:39.197Z It was the middle of a scorching afternoon when Carrie drew her waggon over a low rise and down the long slope to the dried-up sloo. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z A couple of dried-up mummies with one foot in the grave, and I'm right in the prime of life! Fore! 2011-07-11T02:00:06.097Z The professor ate it with about as much relish as Proserpine must have eaten the dried-up pomegranate that Pluto obtained for her. Tripping with the Tucker Twins 2011-07-10T02:00:21.613Z The father was a barrister, and the other two were the Lord Chief Justice of what they imagine to be Common Pleas, and a very thin, dried-up student of theology. Three in Norway by Two of Them 2011-07-10T02:00:15.900Z He addressed turned, and beheld a lank, dried-up individual who might have been any age between thirty and fifty. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z A quarter of an hour afterwards there remained only a few drops of dried-up blood on the withered leaves and on the moss. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z They were at the end of a dried-up river between high banks, whose strange formation Craig Bellshaw had taken advantage of. The Sweep Winner 2011-06-24T02:00:21.067Z One always pictures the German professor as a dried-up mind in a dried-up body, but in this book one is conscious of real flesh and blood. The Story of an Untold Love 2011-06-17T02:00:17.643Z "There's Mrs. Baxter will make more fuss over her dried-up atomy of a man in one day, than Mrs. Fordham does about her fine figure of a husband in a year." Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Old, dried-up water sinks lay white and glistening here and there, framed by vast areas of sage brush, while on beyond in the blue distance lay miles and miles of monotonous, billowing hills and mountains. The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze 2011-06-15T02:00:19.437Z After setting down the baskets in the bottom of a dried-up donga, ’Ndakana went to a spot hard by where, behind a fringe of bushes, he had hidden away a large calabash full of water. Between Sun and Sand A Tale of an African Desert 2011-06-15T02:00:16.390Z The dried-up bed of the Knight's life had been richly inundated again by the agitations of his heart. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Have dried-up tears ever fallen upon the big pages of the old books with their curling t's and florid s's? Old Kensington 2011-05-29T02:00:09.797Z The smoking-room had been empty except for a little, dried-up old man, who was half asleep over the evening papers. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z As we went through the other silent chambers--empty snail-shells of his shrivelled, dried-up life--my frozen blood began to thaw within me, and to move in warm, light mercury-globules. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z A funnier little dried-up skin-and-bone creature no one could have desired to see. A Crime of the Under-seas 2011-05-17T02:00:16.540Z Now, mightier and more alive than the dried-up, parcelled out, stiff land, the watery kingdom opened, whose powers all, from the streams and waves even to the drops, join hands and move in concert. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z O Salis! in that yet are all our expired sighs, all our dried-up tears, and they lift the aspiring heart from its roots and veins, and it fain would die! Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z There are a great many trees about, but they have all a dwarfed and dried-up appearance. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z At length he arrived, B�rstel by name, a shrivelled and dried-up snail of a man, with a round, shy, listening button-face, all hunger, anxiety, and attention. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z Those strong hearts resemble English gardens, which age always makes greener, fuller, more leafy; whereas the man of the world, like a French one, is covered by years with dried-up and disfigured boughs. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 2011-05-11T02:00:19.453Z He was certainly not called on to ask this old dried-up Englishman down here. Vacation with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-08T02:00:04.123Z Vindt was an old bachelor, a dried-up, lanky figure of a man, with a broad-brimmed felt hat set on his smooth black wig and a little florid face with a sharp nose. Dry Fish and Wet Tales from a Norwegian Seaport 2011-04-24T02:00:08.440Z At the memory of this the dried-up well of Danny's own eyes moistened at last to tears. She's All the World to Me 2011-04-09T02:00:16.923Z The dried-up well of Dan's eyes moistened at last, and down his hard face ran the glistening tears in gracious drops like dew. The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z He himself was a dried-up specimen of the old style of Yankee captain, with a face that resembled in colour a brown painted oilskin, and hands like an albatross's feet. A Modern Buccaneer 2011-03-02T03:00:23.990Z Yea, what if dried-up stems wax red and green, Shall that thing be which is not nor has been? Poems & Ballads (First Series) 2011-02-28T03:00:30.587Z Unloving voices answered each other in hoarse whispers, like a hot, dry wind through the crisp and shrivelled sedges of a dried-up watercourse. The Ravens and the Angels With Other Stories and Parables 2011-02-23T03:00:29.860Z Any barren lot or dried-up riverbed would do. Marta: Brazil's Pint-Size Football Star 2011-02-20T05:00:00Z Before Dicky could reply to this truly overwhelming question, to which but one answer was expected, a dried-up little man appeared at the French window opening on to the lawn, and stepped into the room. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z The Sarnoffs on the other hand are modest and nice people—the Prince is a yellow, dried-up Asiatic who is making a collection of parasites—a shrewd, kindly, and clever little scientist. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z Orgoglio's body shrank away, and nothing was left but an empty dried-up skin—such is the end of pride. Tales from Spenser; Chosen from the Faerie Queene 2011-02-06T03:00:52.580Z Clinging to it was part of a Turkish uniform, from which dangled and rattled the dried-up bones of a skeleton. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z De Brézé, de Brézé,—the name used to come to me, suddenly, like the forerunner of rain to a dried-up plant. The Rustle of Silk 2011-01-27T03:00:44.390Z Singularly enough, the chasm, as though remorsefully conscious of the blackness of its character, produces no end of dried-up vegetable stems or stalks fit to be ignited and used as firebrands. Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado 2011-01-12T03:00:34.043Z Would you have his throat become like the bed of a dried-up stream? Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution 2011-01-06T03:00:50.873Z The dried-up little Mexicans who attended to the horses, harnessing and unharnessing them, on the road, at the different relay stations, evidently stood in great awe of him. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z She will regularly greet her boyfriend after a training session, her face whitened with dried-up dribble. Chrissie Wellington interview: The iron lady 2011-01-02T00:05:05Z Half an hour later Lilly, dressed in the garments Miss von Schwertfeger had brought, entered the dining room, where breakfast was being served by old Ferdinand, a dried-up, spindle-legged heirloom of a servant. The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z It may be that the bloodless, dried-up skin of the old man had some physical resemblance to the vampire's. Mashi and Other Stories 2010-12-28T03:00:16.890Z To be shockingly frank, not one of them was conspicuously pretty; they had brilliant eyes and teeth, but all had an ill-fed, dried-up appearance, even those who were inclined to flesh. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z The tapering of this trunk is very slight, and a few of the stiff, spine-tipped leaves, with which its younger extremity is densely clothed, still remain attached in a dried-up condition far down the column. Wayside and Woodland Trees A pocket guide to the British sylva 2010-12-25T03:00:16.510Z They did not yet, nor could they, till the question had answer— “How far does the dried-up channel extend?” The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z Nor would he be easily forgiven for calling Orlando “a dried-up pond” when he bolted for Hollywood in 1996. Analysis: Multiple Nicknames, but Dwindling Opportunities for O?Neal 2010-07-24T01:40:00Z Their graveyard, known as Small River Cemetery No. 5, lies near a dried-up riverbed in the Tarim Basin, a region encircled by forbidding mountain ranges. In a Desert in China, a Trove of 4,000-Year-Old Mummies 2010-03-15T22:17:00Z Local thunderstorms and cloud-bursts are a characteristic phenomenon, inundating limited areas and transforming dried-up streams into muddy torrents carrying boulders and d�bris. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" Did you ever see those queer little dried-up Japanese flowers which seem utterly dead till you throw them into water? Where the Path Breaks He was an old, dried-up little man, with keen eyes, bushy brows, hawk nose and fuzzy gray side whiskers. The Man from Jericho It would be a pity if that girl should become a dried-up old maid.' A Sister's Love A Novel When the leafy undergrowth enclosed me, I let myself slide to the ground on to the dried-up grass, the fallen twigs, and the crackling russet pine-needles. Woman "There, then, greedy!" she cries in the same breath, and stuffs her dried-up breast into his mouth. Yiddish Tales She was the sort of dried-up creature which shows no age. Cinderella Jane They came from dried-up vines that grew in the sand. The Story of a Strange Career Being the Autobiography of a Convict; an Authentic Document A broad stone-bridge across the dried-up moat, reached right into the dark court, from which the three square wings of the building rose ponderous and unadorned. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales The dried-up stony bed you have crossed a couple of hours back with unwetted feet is now the course of a stream that would defy the boldest. The Fortunes Of Glencore This depression is the termination of what is in all probability the bed of one of the dried-up Saharan rivers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" Still at the gate the smile that greeted the approach of this dried-up little man was as radiant as the love of a woman. The Loves of Ambrose Mr. Hazlewood was in appearance a dried-up likeness of his son, and Guy often wondered if he would ever present to the world this desiccated exterior. Plashers Mead A Novel It lies on the north side of a dried-up lake, once no doubt a volcanic crater. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" Her body, being now at ease, was called back to days, brighter days, days filled with thrilling events and thrilling people, days when the world was a world and not a dried-up cinder. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary To complete the air of sadness and desolation, the faded leaf of a dried-up geranium was lisping against the window-pane. Carnival He himself was devoting all his time to conserving the terraces, and surreptitiously running hot water into dried-up basins that fresh pools might form. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel He’d better have cleared out of that dried-up Bushmanland place long ago, even if he had to give it away for a song. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt Professor Einsiedel was often accompanied also by a little dried-up old man of most humble exterior, who always withdrew at Manna's approach, as if he felt himself unworthy to intrude upon the society of men. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine The Duke was a little dried-up wasp of a man, absolutely selfish, with a satirical tongue and a self-conceit that nothing could pierce. The Duchess of Wrexe Her Decline and Death; A Romantic Commentary After about two hours’ marching, during which the country grew wilder and more wooded, they halted at a water-hole—one of a chain of several in the otherwise dried-up bed of a stream. 'Tween Snow and Fire A Tale of the Last Kafir War Even the most dried-up specimen of university learning felt aggrieved. Black Diamonds Bless my life, on my dried-up old place it’s a case of vegetating day after day—counting out—looking around—counting in. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt The answer was clothed in language less polite than forcible: "Merely the shrivelled skin and dried-up bones you carry about with you, sir!" The Tower of Dago He could look at Mars, old and cold and dried-up, and at Jupiter, massive and sullen and totally useless except as an anchor for its family of crazy moons. The Legion of Lazarus She was fond of dress and show, and had married the Intendant, who was a dried-up, conceited fellow. Waldfried A Novel There was some of it in the Americanos, but the gold was even thicker in the dried-up creeks an' gulches that run into the river on both sides. The Boy With the U.S. Miners First my pack-horse gave out—then the nag I was riding—and there I was dying of thirst in the middle of the most awful dried-up country you can imagine. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt I have just had lunch: a piece of tough dried-up beef, custard pie, and a glass of 264 filthy water, the whole served by an old negro on an old, ragged, dirty table-cloth. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things He looked quite old, a withered, dried-up old man. The Variable Man Its occupant proved to be a little dried-up old man, dressed in yellow linen, and wearing a red peaked night-cap. Tales of the Caravan, Inn, and Palace They went together to visit it and were all greatly interested in its ancient and foreign appearance; in the dried-up moat, the drawbridges, the massive arched entrance, dark under-ways and dungeons. Elsie in the South Van Dam recollected the dried-up villain in the closet down the hall, and felt a flame of rage mount through him. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure There was some snow in the hollows, and I wet my feet, which always makes me feel wretchedly; and I could not find any thing to eat except a thin dried-up old mole. Letters from a Cat As night closed in, we found ourselves on the skirt of what seemed a dense wood, bordered by the course of a dried-up torrent. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas The skipper was a dried-up little shell-back who hated passengers and never came down on the promenade deck at all. Captain Macedoine's Daughter But the nation fell to pieces like a dried-up barrel whose hoops are broken, and the nation's style was never formed. The Cathedrals of Northern Spain Presently the door opened, and a tall, dried-up priest, with a livid face and crooked mouth, appeared on the threshold. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. We only remove caterpillars from those trees which have flowers or leaves, or which will bear fruit, but on old, dried-up trees we leave them alone. St. Peter's Umbrella "Do I wish it!" cried I; and in the sudden burst, long dried-up sources of emotion opened out afresh, and the heavy tears rolled down my cheeks. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Why is it, when we come to analyze ourselves and others in middle life, we seem to find nothing save the dried-up residues of dead passions and the dregs of relinquished aspirations? Captain Macedoine's Daughter Then they rested themselves, seated under the arbor with the dried-up vines, while the sun melted the congealed sap; and, Pierre's head on Luce's shoulder, they listened dreamily to the humming of the earth. Pierre and Luce “I guess we 31 won’t miss a few dried-up sandwiches,” she said with spirit. Peggy Raymond's Vacation or Friendly Terrace Transplanted I feel," I went on, "that being a rather dried-up old bachelor puts me at a disadvantage. Aliens He suggests raking up "some plausible cranky old dried-up hanger-on" of fifty-two or so, who "should follow you about like a feminine Frankenstein," as he carelessly puts it. Pot-Boilers There was a yellow, dried-up looking major who was never, never satisfied. Jena or Sedan? Robert thought his dried-up appearance capable of explanation. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement There might well be gold there; but more authentic were the reports of fleas, rawhides, and a dried-up coast. Gold He was a wizened, dried-up little man, not much more than five feet in height. The Rushton Boys at Treasure Cove Or, The Missing Chest of Gold The fierce little dried-up under-officer actually smiled—smiled at this stout sentry, smiled at him, and, indeed, almost winked. With Joffre at Verdun A Story of the Western Front After a few moments the door of the waiting-room opened again and an inspector appeared on the threshold, a dried-up looking man with a leathery complexion. Jena or Sedan? Oh come, Clem, don’t you go to mixing up the unseen and all-seeing guardian of the Rep�blica with this dried-up, wild-eyed specimen of a dried-up–of, of an old rascal. The Missourian At the very bottom of some of the dried-up lakes were found sapling trees of ten years’ growth, which had evidently been killed by the return of the waters to their long-forsaken bed. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants The sign said "Closed," but he rang the bell until a little, dried-up Martian appeared. Blind Spot Besides this, as a man acquainted with the desert, he knew that after a hurricane, rain usually follows and the dried-up "khors" change temporarily into streams. In Desert and Wilderness Could such old hulk tell its story, could that dried-up old tongue but begin to wag again, what tales! Trail Tales His disciple, St. Eusebius, carried one hundred and fifty pounds of iron, and lived for three years in a dried-up well.... Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development We were all expecting to see a wrinkled, dried-up old maid. Daisy Brooks Or, A Perilous Love Still more than men they have need of compensation for sexual love, to avoid losing their natural qualities and becoming dried-up beings or useless egoists. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study Saying this, he seized the rope drawn through the dried-up skin of the drum and began to twirl it around with all his strength. In Desert and Wilderness A little after sunrise an old, dried-up, spiteful looking hag of a woman came in and began to get breakfast. Hidden Hand Some of the hermits lived in deserted dens of wild beasts, others in dried-up wells, while others found a congenial resting-place among the tombs. Religion & Sex Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development This is most delicious, and is a dainty one never has a chance of tasting in England, for it is quite different to the dried-up and aged cocoa-nuts to be procured from Covent Garden. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' The dried-up gullies and canals became silver-streaked with the incoming spray, and it needed only a windmill to make the scene as Dutch as a Van Der Neer. Melomaniacs Amid the corpses swarmed small gray lizards, which, at the approach of men, quickly hid under those human remains and often in the mouths or between the dried-up ribs. In Desert and Wilderness Had any traveler lost himself and chanced to have passed that way, he might have seen a little, old, dried-up woman, sitting knitting at one of the windows. Hidden Hand I can see her now, coming in and sitting on the edge of a chair; the sudden puckering of her dried-up little face, the tears rolling down. Another Sheaf Then we crossed a now dried-up river, and climbed the opposite bank of a creek, to a point from which we had a lovely view of the distant Stirling Range. The Last Voyage to India and Australia, in the 'Sunbeam' Take it all together, it was a forlorn looking, hot, dried-up, and uncomfortable sort of place. Two Arrows A Story of Red and White They crossed a few hollows, sown with stone and resembling the dried-up beds of rivers. In Desert and Wilderness The old trail seemed still to follow the course of the dried-up stream, bearing much to the west. A Gold Hunter's Experience That made him the dried-up mummy he is. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess We persuaded one of the Chinese, a boy of eighteen, with cross-eyes and a funny, dried-up little face, to accompany us, for our two guides wished to return that night to Kao-chia-chuang. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Her dried-up lips mumbled the Hebrew prayer, welcoming the Sabbath eve. Ghetto Comedies "I haven't got anything but a few old dried-up fruits," Amos pouted. Mr. Wicker's Window Can Scott be such a dried-up, narrow-minded disciplinarian, and he the Egeria of Lincoln! Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Bud Goble was astounded, and so were his friends, who had never dreamed that there was so much spirit in that little, dried-up man. True To His Colors Some dried-up cat-tails lifted their brown heads from another vase on one end of the tall mantel. The Love Story of Abner Stone What is this curious brown stuff," said Ellen, "growing all over the rock—like shrivelled and dried-up leaves? The Wide, Wide World Over the miles of the salt-bush plain— The shining plain that is said to be The dried-up bed of an inland sea. Austral English A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia And yet I wouldn't swear there's not an angel husked inside that dried-up little chrysalis. The Dop Doctor That weary, dried-up thing that I call mine heart, seemed to give a little bit of throb. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Never beholding any of their race but the queen and a few dried-up and ugly spinsters, the poor creatures vegetate, mindless and joyless. Niels Klim's journey under the ground being a narrative of his wonderful descent to the subterranean lands; together with an account of the sensible animals and trees inhabiting the planet Nazar and the firmament. "Lilith, my soul!" he murmured, his eyes wandering over the brassy, glaring expanse of water and dried-up reed-bed, as though to annihilate space and distance. The Sign of the Spider He was jolted along elephant paths that led through dense bush, up stony hills and down again to the beds of dried-up rivers. The Explorer African elephants, working in company, are known to have excavated holes in dried-up river beds to the depth of 25 feet in a single night in search of water. More Science From an Easy Chair Do not think that dried-up hearts are the same thing as no hearts. In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers The rise in the ground had hidden from them a dried-up river-bed, and there before them in the sandy trough, huge amidst the boulders, lay the body of an elephant. The Pools of Silence No, but his dress; and the other was a homely, dried-up little man, like one of your Englebourn troubles. Tom Brown at Oxford Across the bed of the dried-up stream the bush-cow charged, until Wilmshurst hurriedly came to the conclusion that it was quite time for him to dodge behind a tree. Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force One morning he came home in a great state of excitement, and made me go with him to look at some ancient remains he had found at the bottom of a dried-up tarn. Werwolves He was a little dried-up old Frenchman, and had no military look about him whatever. The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 Most Indians grow old quickly, and are withered like dried-up apples as soon as the later years come upon them. The Windy Hill Now, Mr. Trenholme, take the advice of a dried-up chip of experience like me, and be sensible. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley Nothing of particular interest occurred during the voyage of two hundred miles to the Poyang lake beyond usual delays caused by the dried-up condition at that season of all waterways connected with China's mighty river. Life and sport in China Second Edition However, the long ride in the keen air had given all a fine appetite and despite the landlady’s laments over the “dried-up stuff,” the table was nearly cleared of its food when they left it. Dorothy on a Ranch As a consequence, they are a sort of dirty, dried-up plant, with but little juice of life in them. Intestinal Ills Chronic Constipation, Indigestion, Autogenetic Poisons, Diarrhea, Piles, Etc. Also Auto-Infection, Auto-Intoxication, Anemia, Emaciation, Etc. Due to Proctitis and Colitis On his right, and insignificant by comparison, was a small grey-haired and rather dried-up man. Antony Gray,—Gardener It was he who brought the first patient to me, a little dried-up Hebrew peddler I judged him, who had been caught under some wreckage in the forward day-coach. Left Guard Gilbert It fell open at a yellow, dried-up rose that had left the stain of its heart's juice on the white leaf. A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time This was a source of great sorrow to me, and every day my prayers went up to Heaven, that it would send down rain upon the dried-up land and so deliver my people from death. Chinese Folk-Lore Tales The first one I want you to tackle is here"—he made a cross with his pencil—"Belongs to a little dried-up old geezer named Chandler. The Desert Fiddler Well, Judge Trent, then, is what is popularly described as a dried-up old bachelor. The Opened Shutters Fifty, indeed!” said the Major, thinking to himself that a dried-up little man like Puffin might be as old as an Egyptian mummy. Miss Mapp A huge lumbering coach drew up at the door, and therefrom descended a small and shrunken figure, with a wrinkled, dried-up face. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg There are two poems—The Garden, and another called, I think, On a dried-up Spring, which are worthy of the most fastidious collections. Recollections of Dante Gabriel Rossetti On arriving at the town with the dried-up well, he was questioned by the king as to what news he had brought. Fairy Tales of the Slav Peasants and Herdsmen “I’m dried-up like a stalk with all that miserable tramping, and I shan’t come right again till I’ve been in for an hour.” The Peril Finders This is a little dried-up country town, and we couldn't turn out a hundred and fifty people to see that game. Frank Merriwell's Son A Chip Off the Old Block At the entrance of the wood, on a kind of pile, is a strange sight—a man coated over with cows' dung, completely naked, more dried-up than a mummy. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul “One needs something to interest one in this miserable, dried-up desert,” cried the boy. Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure Buckets were dipped, and water was poured down the cylinders to moisten the suckers, and ran through, because the leathers were all dried-up. The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne “No, fa; it was all turned into pools when we were there a fortnight ago, and now there’s only a muddy spot here and there; all the rest have dried-up.” The Peril Finders During the hot months, when the pools are dried-up, and the alligator cannot reach water, it buries itself in the mud, and becomes dormant, sleeping till the rainy season returns. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America Insects without stomachs keep eating; dried-up ferns begin to bloom afresh; and limbs which were wanting sprout forth again. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul I have before described the pits filled with burned bones which Dr. Stuxberg found on the 9th September, 1878, by the bank of a dried-up rivulet. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Here and there over the hot, dusty plain we saw shacks and makeshift houses surrounded by patches of corn or flax or dried-up garden. Land of the Burnt Thigh I should say he has starved, and been dried-up with thirst, and been hunted by those brutes of plain Indians, and had all his seven senses driven out of him. The Peril Finders The pools are dried-up, the surface of the swamps becomes cracked and dry—the brown stalks of the tall reeds alone marking the nature of the ground. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America “Then shall the lame man leap as the hart” that finds the stream it needs, and the “dumb shall sing,” for this living water shall quench his thirst, and loosen his dried-up tongue. Broken Bread from an Evangelist's Wallet The other gentleman—also slight and short, but with a sun-browned, dried-up face, and big gray moustache—bowed and resumed his seat. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols Go on, sir; I feel as if it’s trickling into all kinds of little holes and corners that had got dried-up. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy “Perhaps there used to be one, and it has dried-up.” The Peril Finders At this season even the animals take their departure; here and there the alligator and anaconda alone remain, in a torpid state, buried in the clay of the dried-up swamps. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America The lean, withered, dried-up body of the old mountain-man favoured such a supposition; and we began seriously to entertain it—for in no other way could we account for the total absence of all remains! The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse I might not have grown to be such a dried-up old thing if I had had somebody like David. Marcia Schuyler The trees grew rapidly fewer and less in size, till there were only scattered bushes, and higher still these were dwarfed into wiry grasses and tufts of a heather-like growth, with lichens and dried-up mosses. Jack at Sea All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy "Oh, no, he is a thin, dried-up, little man, who looks as if he hadn't had a full meal of victuals in his life." Chester Rand or The New Path to Fortune We met their traces almost every day; and, in many places, the soil was worn into parched ravines or the tracks of dried-up torrents. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver When it has all run away the tree will dry up in a day, and I will be able to break through the wood, as it will be brittle like dried-up egg shell. The Enchanted Island Nothing is to be seen but the mellow golden-brown of the grass, broken by blue-green aloe leaves, and here and there a deep madder head of dried-up fennel. Parables of the Christ-life It's hard to judge this dried-up world by earthly standards. Valley of Dreams "Is she sort of stiff and dried-up?" she hazarded. Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge That child is pretty enough to give even an old, dried-up heart like mine the faint echo of a stir. Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage As Jill went slowly down the hill she looked into the little dried-up yards that had once been gardens. More Tales in the Land of Nursery Rhyme He is a sort of a dried-up little party. The Wrong Woman This lousy, dried-up pill of a desert called Mars'll never support much human population. Valley of Dreams The dried-up bed of a large park pond, with a small island or two of green shrubbery, and some very scrawny palms around the edge would exactly represent the famous Pitch Lake of Trinidad. Plotting in Pirate Seas Any thing hotter than Blois, with its half dried-up river, dusty boulevards, and baked streets, can hardly be imagined. Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Her companion, a thin, yellow, dried-up old man, whose bald head in form and color recalled a ripe melon, sat as straight as a stick, and kept his eyes on the crucifix opposite him. The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I As the ascent continued the road became worse; the boulders being larger, and the holes and dried-up pools deeper. For Name and Fame Or Through Afghan Passes "Ah, yes, I remember him—the little, dried-up Scotchman." A Son Of The Sun Christina, an old dried-up woman, in the quaint, daintily clean dress of blue, emerged from the cellar-door, bringing with her a savory smell of frying ham and eggs. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Below in the snuggery fitted up for masculine use was a table, containing a humidor half filled with dried-up cigars, and an ill-smelling pipe—Archie hated pipes—and a box of cigarettes. Blacksheep! Blacksheep! It may be mentioned, that the old farmer made China Aster take part of his loan in three old dried-up cows and one lame horse, not improved by the glanders. The Confidence-Man Towards the sixth day, however, the savoury flavour of a splendid salmon-trout floated past my dried-up nostrils like “Afric’s spicy gale,” and caused my collapsed stomach to yearn with strong emotion. Hudson Bay He had brought with him an extremely wrinkled, dried-up old woman, who appeared to have suffered much, and to have been dragged out of the lowest depths of poverty. The Iron Horse This dame had been named Old Moggy by the people at Moose; and she was the most shrivelled, dried-up, wrinkled old body you ever saw. Ungava Kannoa, a very old dried-up but lively woman with sparkling black eyes, also formed one of the group. Red Rooney The Last of the Crew "Pray, what have you there?" he asked of one newly accosted, a little, dried-up man, who looked as if he never dined. The Confidence-Man Anything so supremely devilish as the dried-up mirth of this old fellow it would be difficult to imagine. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta The next captain to him was a little, thin, dark, dried-up, shrivelled fellow, with keen eyes, and a sharp nose. Frank Mildmay Or, the Naval Officer She could also see, from her elevated position, that a track, or the bed of a dried-up watercourse, led through the bushes towards the cave. Ungava “The trail, boy; why, that’s just gone and lost itself long ago,” answered Sam, with a quizzical look on his dried-up countenance. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins Who ever heard of a bear wanting to eat an old dried-up man, who was as tough as leather? Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Often enough the way was the dried-up bed of some torrent, amidst whose boulders the patient little Turkish horses picked their way in the most sure-footed manner. Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor Shaddy was quite right, for there on the handle were some dried-up traces of how the wound must have bled. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco Well, yes, I suppose it was; but here was I with all my plans made: arms, ammunition, stores, everything, man included—he is a man, you know, though he’s such a dried-up little chap. Old Gold The Cruise of the "Jason" Brig I was too much dried-up for that, I suppose. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins He looked at the little, dried-up, squeaking creature opposite, and—refused the lady the gratification of a single sign of the amusement she had apparently expected. Doom Castle As he spoke he leaped down into the ditch, and picked up a fragile, dried-up portion of an egg and showed it to his companions. First in the Field A Story of New South Wales Brazier smiled sadly as he thought of his dried-up specimens. Rob Harlow's Adventures A Story of the Grand Chaco But they hoped in vain, and the ponies at last began to grow sluggish and indisposed to proceed whenever some patch of bush was reached in the midst of the dried-up expanse. A Dash from Diamond City My feet, however, touched the bottom, and stooping down, I let the water run into my mouth and wash my dried-up face. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins Now and then, too, were miserable, dried-up karroo-bushes, starved among the great blocks above the rich green hollow where Sandho grazed. Charge! A Story of Briton and Boer This, of course, alarmed him, and so he cautiously began making a circle around this place, and at length, in a depression in the forest, he found the dried-up channel of a creek. Three Boys in the Wild North Land Only the dried-up ordure of the denizens that had lately occupied the prison cell, along with some bits of the shell out of which the young hornbill had been but recently hatched. The Castaways These dead and gone dried-up old chaps here are of no use; although I wouldn’t be surprised if that starfish there could still tell the number of his mess if placed in water. Bob Strong's Holidays Adrift in the Channel I found also, after I left the river, a great scarcity of water; the heat had dried-up all the water-holes and rivulets, and I thus began to suffer much from thirst. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins "Little dried-up feller," replied the gaunt Missourian, "that looks like he always ett at the second table." Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers And of all the dried-up little old maids I ever see, Lindy was the queerest specimen. Shorty McCabe on the Job It was fully five miles to Kadikoi—five miles across a bare, dried-up country, from which all traces of the scanty cultivation it had ever received were fast disappearing under the present state of things. Grandmother Dear A Book for Boys and Girls No place that I have seen in the Southern States shows so little traces of the war, and it formed a delightful contrast to the war-worn, poverty-stricken, dried-up towns I had lately visited. Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 I reached the spot; I looked about; there were the rushes sure enough, and there had been the water, but it was dried-up. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins The girl's heart began to beat faster and she drew the clean, dried-up old woman down upon the edge of the bed beside her. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date I do not like to have my daughter-in-law so absorbed with that handsome dried-up fellow. The Man With The Broken Ear A belt of desert runs through the whole of Asia and Africa, like a dried-up river bed. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People He was no longer jealous of "any little, black, dried-up Frenchman." Molly Brown's Orchard Home I felt as if all the liquid would be dried-up before it got down my throat. Dick Onslow Among the Redskins A mahogany door opens, and in comes a wispy, yellow-skinned, dried-up little old party with eyes like a rat. Torchy, Private Sec. Without a word, he left them, and when he returned, held in his hand a dozen or more hard, bony-like and dried-up reeds. The Wonder Island Boys: The Mysteries of the Caverns Some desert plants seem quite dead, grey, dried-up, and buried in dust, but when rain comes they send out green shoots again. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Only far off were those dark patches that looked like old seaweed on a dried-up ocean bed, and might prove dangerous footing. Out Around Rigel In partially dried-up and foul waterholes, full of dead fishes of various kinds, Neoceratodus has been found vigorous and lively. The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told Being so extremely small, they are readily carried about in the air in their dried-up condition, and thus fall upon exposed bodies, setting up decomposition if the conditions are favorable. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses "Well of course you need to," drawled Grace, adding with a fond glance at the glowing Little Captain: "You look so terribly like a dried-up ancient, dear." The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue Like a dried-up fountain, the perennial flow and bright fertility have ceased, and ceased for ever. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity "You're the one person in the house except me who isn't old and dried-up." The Heather-Moon A knock brought the notary himself to the door, a little dried-up man, with keen face, and eyes incredibly bright. The Holladay Case A Tale Probably this gully was an old dried-up stream bed. Tom Slade's Double Dare "Guess it's the proper time to come," said Crayford, squeezing her hand with his dried-up palm. The Way of Ambition The surrounding hills were ploughed in all directions by the courses of dried-up cataracts, and here and there a few savage goats browsed on an occasional patch of lean and sour pasture. Alroy The Prince Of The Captivity I'm a dried-up old bachelor, Bert, my boy, but I know exactly how you feel. Branded On a few stunted trees were a few dried-up oranges; and on the branches of one of the larger trees was hung a swing fashioned from tough-fibered creepers. The Plunderer Just behind him, however, was a little, dried-up man with a complexion the color of old parchment, with sandy, stubby hair shot with gray, and a stubby gray beard shot with red. The Early Bird A Business Man's Love Story Murray, the trainer, was there, and two grinning negroes with towels over their shoulders, and a little dried-up Scotchman who was all one smile. The Young Pitcher Dr. Jorce—who was waiting for them in the Count's room—proved to be a small, dried-up atom of a man, who looked as though all the colour had been bleached out of him. The Silent House Poor, dried-up, sad-eyed soul, she looked like a woman of sixty, and yet her husband said she was just thirty-seven. The Prairie Wife What is this curious brown stuff," said Ellen, "growing all over the rock like shrivelled and dried-up leaves? The Wide, Wide World Let me see—Oh: 'And, Molly, what do you think?—there's a duke after Jeanette—a miserable, little, dried-up, burned-out, poverty-stricken Italian duke. A Certain Rich Man There was a sunken, dried-up well, within it, into which he lowered the Psyche, threw earth upon it and covered the fresh grave with small sticks and nettles. The Ice-Maiden: and Other Tales. "Mr. Rich no high opinion has of either music or musicians," said one of the disputants, a lean, dried-up looking man who spoke with a strong guttural accent. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' An old dried-up Christmas wreath hanging on a rafter attracted her attention. Suzanna Stirs the Fire Mr. Solomon Madgin was a little dried-up man, about sixty years old. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891 A dried-up creek that was being used by us for a trench on the Ypres sector was crossed by a wooden bridge about thirty feet long. S.O.S. Stand to! Well enough; but why should one go to a weak and almost dried-up spring when there is one equally near, fresh, always flowing and full of life? Life of Father Hecker He had sometimes wondered at his dried-up, withered skin and lank, dead-looking black hair. The Road to Mandalay A Tale of Burma Its greenness is intensified by contrast with the dried-up grass on the grazing lands. A Bird Calendar for Northern India Everything around me was black—the sky, the mountains, the vast pits, the dried-up mouths of which gaped dismally. Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter |
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