Montagu was a brilliant rhetorician, and therefore, though he had ten times Harley's capacity for the driest parts of business, was represented by detractors as a superficial, prating pretender.
The turtles select the highest and driest banks composed of the finest sand, which will be a sufficient time above water to allow of the eggs being hatched by the heat of the sun.
Thus when the air is driest the difference between the two thermometers will be greatest, and, on the contrary, when it is completely saturated with moisture the two readings will be almost identical.
As a matter of fact, however, the latter never occurs; even in the driest regions of Arabia a humidity of 10 per cent.
It is a water of James's river, and sufficient in the driest seasons to turn a grist-mill, though its fountain is not more than two miles above.
I had remarked the same soil upon the land side of Fort Barrancas, and besides cactus, some of which grew in a screw-like form through the bricks, many of them in the driest sand.
The hardest and driest facts in geography and grammar were pelted like summer hail upon their weak young brains, and a sterner demand was made every day upon their juvenile powers of calculation.
He had a new zest in the driest details of his position as the master of a great estate.
Africa November is near the beginning of summer, in India it is at the beginning of the "cold weather," that is to say, both the coolest and the driest season of the year.
No doubt,' replied Lizzie, in the driest manner; 'especially to your sisters.
It is extraordinary how they can exist upon the driest and apparently most innutritious food.
An anomaly among rivers; flooding in the driest season; everlasting in sandy deserts; where was its hidden origin?
I saw but two kinds of palm, the fan-palm, and Phoenix: the latter is characteristic of the driest locality.
Townsville (considered to be one of the driest places on the coast of North Queensland) averaged 45.
The simple practice of summer fallowing, had it been practiced the year before, would have insured satisfactory crops in the driest year.
Moreover, it should not be forgotten that hundreds of farmers in the driest section during this dry period, who instinctively or otherwise farmed more nearly right, obtained good crops even in 1894.
If this be done, the farmer will always have a crop: in the wet years his crop will be large; in the driest year it will be sufficient to sustain him.
While it is undoubtedly true that dry-farm crops are naturally drier than those of humid countries, yet it must also be kept in mind that the driest dry-farm crops are always obtained where the summers are hot and rainless.
The business of the dry-farmer is always to farm so as to be prepared for this driest year whenever it comes.
In spite of the fact that Arizona is generally looked upon as one of the driest states of the Union, dry-farming is making considerable headway there.
True, there will always be a dry year, that is, the driest year of a series of years, and this is the supposedly fearful and fateful year of drouth.
England, which thus act as a sort of umbrella, the driest parts of the country being on the east coast.
The driest part of Devonshire is the south-east coast.
The driest month in England generally is March, whose rainfall averages 1.
Even Augusta was in raptures with the very driest book on mathematics that I could pick up.
He was a little less interesting than usual when he got on fossils; they were his verydriest subject.
He then collected the driest leaves he could find, with little decayed pieces of wood, and piling them into a heap, endeavoured to kindle a blaze by the sparks which he continually struck from his knife and the flint.
I struck a light, and presently kindled the driest grass before me; the conflagration spread along the country, the wind drove it on with inconceivable fury, and I saw the path of my deliverance open before my eyes.
Next to lizards, mice appear to be able to support existence on the smallest and driest portions of the earth -- even on islets in the midst of great oceans.
I saw traces only of one living animal in abundance, namely, the shells of a Bulimus, which were collected together in extraordinary numbers on the driest spots.
The driest and warmest situation should be selected for the early sorts, and the strongest land for the late ones.
Peas== of the round-seeded class may be sown in open quarters, and the driest and warmest places must be selected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "driest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
