summer-dried

• “They ate in silence as the river rushed by on the right and the summer-dried hills flashed by on the left.”

  Simon & Schuster: Crimson Wind

• “Early in the new year the roads were good, and Isak started carting down his loads of wood to the village; he had his regular customers now, and the summer-dried wood fetched a good price.”

  The Growth of the Soil

• “There was no one, of course, nothing but miles of summer-dried grass, miles of leaden sky, miles of emptiness and the miniature forms of the distant sheep.”

  Wyoming Territory

• “It came to him in fragments of strings and errant horn sequences, echoing off the brown summer-dried hills and blurred by the white noise of traffic carrying up from the Hollywood Freeway.”

  Trunk Music

• “Like a summer-dried fountain When our need was the sorest.”

  The Legacy of Heorot

• “From a corner behind some fishing-rods she salvaged a pair of summer-dried snowshoes; they had facilitated many”

  O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920

• “You have to seize your time some day just now, while the low ground 's summer-dried as it is to-day, and before the fall rains set in.”

  The Queen's Twin

• “You have to seize your time some day just now, while the low ground's summer-dried as it is to-day, and before the fall rains set in.”

  The Queen's Twin

• “It was a gravelly spot where he had fallen, and he saw in a moment that it was the summer-dried channel of a mountain rill.”

  Down the Ravine

• “These were the birds we sought after in winter; but we could shoot for the table all the year round, for no sooner was it the duck's pairing and breeding season than another bird-population from their breeding - grounds in the arctic and sub-arctic regions came on the scene -- plover, sandpiper, godwit, curlew, whimbrel, -- a host of northern species that made the summer-dried pampas their winter abode.”

  Far Away and Long Ago

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