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  • If Mrs. Eppingwell suffered going up the hill, she too suffered, lying face downward on the bed, dry-eyed, dry-mouthed, dumb.

    THE SCORN OF WOMEN 2010

  • She and Bob had played silently every afternoon that summer in the enormous sandbox and playhouse her father had built for her and which all the neighborhood kids under ten had coveted during construction with a dry-mouthed envy.

    The Swap Mark Sutz 2011

  • At seven he was awake again, dry-mouthed, feeling stupid and drowsy, yet incapable of dozing off for more than several minutes at a time.

    THE KANAKA SURF 2010

  • If Mrs. Eppingwell suffered going up the hill, she too suffered, lying face downward on the bed, dry-eyed, dry-mouthed, dumb.

    Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women 2010

  • He swallowed, still restless, dry-mouthed by proxy, and went to fetch a cup of tea from the canteen.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • He swallowed, still restless, dry-mouthed by proxy, and went to fetch a cup of tea from the canteen.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

  • Gravity will mock the the fresh memory of your highest of highs and will mercilessly slam your traffic stats and your entire being down, face-first with a dust-raising thud, leaving you limp, lifeless, dry-mouthed and wrecked; a quivering, lonely slab of flesh on the sun-cracked shoulder of the information highway.

    Dave Pell: I'm a Web Analytics Junkie 2010

  • My sighs became words and I related them in a dry-mouthed whisper.

    AMERICAN SUBVERSIVE DAVID GOODWILLIE 2010

  • Halilhodzic's parting shot? revealing a squad so splintered that "some of the players do not want to play together"? would surely be enough to inspire dry-mouthed terror in other coaches.

    Sven-Goran Eriksson: 'I like challenges, yes. Why not with the Ivory Coast?' 2010

  • He swallowed, still restless, dry-mouthed by proxy, and went to fetch a cup of tea from the canteen.

    Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010

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