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Not to speak of a hundred and one other considerations, -- Lessingham on one side of the House, and her father on the other; and old Lindon girding at him anywhere and everywhere -- with his high-dried Tory notions of his family importance, -- to say nothing of his fortune.
The Beetle Richard Marsh
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He is described as a little high-dried man, with a dark squeezed-up face, and small restless black eyes, that kept winking and twinkling on each side of his little inquisitive nose, as if they were playing a perpetual game of peep-bo with that feature.
The Law and Lawyers of Pickwick A Lecture Frank Lockwood 1871
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His voice was as hard and dry as himself, and Fancy might have ground it straight, like himself, into high-dried snuff.
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He was an arid, sandy man, who, if he had been put into a grinding-mill, looked as if he would have ground immediately into high-dried snuff.
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Instead of his drinking them, they might have been poured over him in his high-dried snuff form, and run to waste, for any lights and shades they caused to flicker over his face.
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Pasha and M. de Ruyssenaer, the high-dried and highly respectable
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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His voice was as hard and dry as himself, and Fancy might have ground it straight, like himself, into high-dried snuff.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 1841
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Instead of his drinking them, they might have been poured over him in his high-dried snuff form, and run to waste, for any lights and shades they caused to flicker over his face.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 1841
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Ten to one, he is old, and has all the shrivelled, high-dried appearance of the most far-gone and confirmed bachelorism.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 444 Volume 18, New Series, July 3, 1852 Various 1841
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He was an arid, sandy man, who, if he had been put into a grinding-mill, looked as if he would have ground immediately into high-dried snuff.
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Charles Dickens 1841
ry commented on the word high-dried
Deprived of an especially high proportion of moisture through drying or baking. Sometimes metaphorically.
March 17, 2021