Sawdusty definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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It's a wonder he don't kill himself Better to have loved a short man Than never to have loved atall The day, sun-riddled, stare-riddled, sawdusty, and white with glare, slouched into the clanging, banging, electric-pianoed, electrifying Babylonia of a Coney Island Saturday night.

—Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It

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It's a wonder he don't kill himself Better to have loved a short man Than never to have loved atall The day, sun-riddled, stare-riddled, sawdusty, and white with glare, slouched into the clanging, banging, electric-pianoed, electrifying Babylonia of a Coney Island Saturday night. — Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It
With a sharp hook, I carefully dug out the sawdusty filling, checking it under a lens as it accumulated. — Wanderin' Weeta (With Waterfowl and Weeds)
The finish was dusty at best, sawdusty at worst. — Blog updates
As well seek diamonds in a common sandbank as inspiration or aspiration in its sawdusty recesses. " — An American Suffragette
Me doing the sawdusty reglar, and follering swells on the stump! — Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]