Just a few square feet of moist soil, here and there a sprig of drying grass, three or four brown willows.
She hurried away, drying her eyes now that there was something for her to do; and the two men, never looking at each other, sat and waited the coming of Brayley's men.
The vegetation on the plains was rapidlydrying up.
All this china I washed carefully in soapy water, rinsing in very hot clear water, and dryingwhilst still hot.
I generally find that three days is enough to dry my quilts thoroughly, but I always leave them spread out on the grass on a clean sheet for one whole day in the sunshine after the drying to fluff up the feathers.
Some children were playing in the dirt, while just below his window a rope was fastened, with some socks and a flannel shirt drying on it.
The dancing flames lit up the unmade bed, the remains of a chop, a heap of clothes scattered over a chair, and a pair of muddy boots drying in the fender.
The cushions and chairs exhaled an odour of patchouli (Sturtevant had been round with a spray-diffuser half an hour before), and Nana lay open on the table at the page where Georges is drying by the kitchen fire.
Suddenly he was roused by the sound of horses' hoofs upon the sandy soil, a sharp rustling in the drying grain.
For days they had been without water, checking their thirst by chewing the prickly leaves of the little desert vine that is the last sign of life upon the drying sand.
Nets lay drying in the sun along a paved causeway raised above the highest flood level, and secured by massive piles.
Well, the shirts and the books will not last, that is all; it is the same on all sides, solidity is drying out.
There was made here a ships loading of fish the last yeare, where still stands the stages, and drying scaffolds; here be good harbour for boates, and safe riding for shippes.
It was a girl in a red negligé, silk surely, drying her hair by the still hot sun of late afternoon.
Here and there a raggedy man seated upon newspapers spread on a drying bench, related not to the radiant and delightful afternoon but to the dirty snow that slept exhausted in obscure corners, waiting for extermination.
Several overturned fishing-boats lay upon the beach, with a net drying upon one of them.
I often think whether Adam and me will be happy together," said Eve, sitting up and dryingher eyes.
Bleached by any of the above processes, the cloth is next passed over a mechanical contrivance known as a "scutcher," which opens it out from the rope form to its full breadth, and is then dried on a continuous drying machine.
Fritz, as we sailed, was drying the shark's skin, which I hoped to convert into files.
In drying sulphides the heat must not be raised to the melting point of sulphur, since, if there is any free sulphur present, it fuses and filters through.
This substance on evaporation remains as a brownish red deliquescent mass; on drying at 300° C.
The drying is continued until they appear to be free from moisture, and until the precipitate ceases to adhere to the filter.
Sometimes drying for a few minutes only will be sufficient.
If the drying is carried too far, coals gain a little in weight owing to oxidation, so that it is not advisable to extend it over more than one or two hours.
Its chief use is as a drying agent, since it has a strong affinity for water.
The drying is very tedious, and is likely to leave behind more water than is allowed for in the formula.
Place the tube in a furnace, and connect at one end with a hydrogen apparatus provided with a sulphuric acid bulb for drying the gas, and at the other with a weighed sulphuric acid tube for collecting the water formed.
It can be prepared by digesting red lead with warm dilute nitric acid; washing and drying the residue.
The fused salt, broken into small lumps, is used for drying gases.
The long wet tresses, whose clamminess he had carefully disposed behind the rolled-up blankets which served as a pillow, were drying to a deep warm brown.
He set her to gathering and drying every herb she deemed suitable for seasoning purposes.
She was sitting waiting for him, with a fresh-water brightness in her face, her hair coiled loosely round her head, and her washing still drying in the sun.
The picnic was resumed, awaiting the drying of Elaine's clothing, but it is safe to say that no one of the Dunn family had the opportunity again that day to get into mischief.
Though this suggestion had the effect of drying Dorothy's tears, it was some time before she could be persuaded to act upon it.
The drying takes two or three months, and the cakes are turned and moved at frequent intervals, till thoroughly ready for packing.
During the drying a thick mould forms on the cakes.
They are then taken to thedrying house; this is a large airy building, with strong shelves of bamboo reaching to the roof, and having narrow passages between the tiers of shelves.
She had laid her own handkerchief down at my side, to read the letter, but feeling the necessity of drying her eyes, she caught me up by mistake, smiled her assent, and left the apartment.
Here she wept freely for a minute or two, and then she bathed her eyes in cold water, and used the napkin in drying them.
It is better than any other drying drink for people in years, or children that have any running humours upon them, as the king's evil, &c.
The drying should be done as quickly as possible, after all the mucus is washed off, and with great care; the napkin being as soft as it can be, and never rubbed hard, for it takes but little force to remove the skin.
After the washing and drying is completed the child must be dressed, and this is a process in which comfort and utility is frequently sacrificed to mere fashion and prejudice, as it is in adults.
The enemy used to shoot wildebeest and preserve it by canning or by drying it in the sun as "biltong" for the use of the German troops.
The last company of bathers are drying in the sun upon the rocks, necks, arms and knees burnt to a sepia brown, the rest of their bodies alabaster white in the sunshine.
Their diseases come chiefly from irritation by decaying scraps of food, or from the blocking of the nose so that air is breathed in through the mouth, drying and cracking the soft mucous membrane.
A leaf of cabbage, or a piece of beet-root, or four or five large strawberries would shrivel away in the drying almost to nothing and, if thoroughly dried, would disappear in a flash when thrown on the fire.
A piece of fat of the same size would shrink very little in drying and would burn with a bright, hot flame, nearly twice as long as either the beef or the bread.
There was a little stranger with a black-and-yellow-striped coat that used to come to the drying corn.
But chiefest among my early recollections of autumn is that one of the corn drying and the ground squirrel.
Their dryingleaves reminded her of the near approach of autumn.
About that time there set in a long period of fine sunny weather, during which Bladud busied himself in hunting and drying meat, as well as fish, which he stored in his larder for future use.
They spoke but little during the meal, and, after partially drying themselves, lay down with their feet towards the fire, and almost instantly fell asleep.
I have settled what to do," answered Branwen, drying her eyes, and looking up with the air of one whose mind has been suddenly and firmly made up.
The jerked or dried meat which had been thus opportunely brought away, may be said to have been half cooked in the drying process, and indeed, was sometimes eaten in its dried condition, when it was inconvenient to cook it.
Here we lay overnight, taking the opportunity of thawing out and drying the frost-crusted bedding, leaving the short run into town for the morning.
While she worked she sat on a shaded ledge, her bare feet toasting in the sun, and her soggy, mud-smeared moccasins drying within reach.
Yet daylight showed more than half the drying frames empty.
The marshy ground was strewn with dead sea-creatures, many of which were already shrivelling and drying in the sun.
Blake strung the greater part of the meat on the drying racks, built a smudge fire beneath, and stretched the antelope skin on a frame.
What was more, all had a fairly good sand glaze, for he had been quick to observe a glaze on the bottoms of the first pots, and had reasoned out that it was due to the sand which had adhered while they stood drying in the sun.
With the drying up of the swamp, some of the amphibians crowded their tadpole stage further and further back, until it was completely accomplished before their young left the egg.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
