drossy
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He did possess what, though it may seem almost profane to call it imagination, is really a cheap and drossy lower kind thereof.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
But that same lofty countenance seemes to scorne Base thing, and thinke how she to heaven may clime; Treading downe earth as lothsome and forlorne, That hinders heavenly thoughts with drossy slime.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
Astral money, it may be, Circulates in theory; But ’tis best to give us cold, Bilious, drossy, filthy gold.
From Cobwebs from a Library Corner by John Kendrick Bangs
The Apostle therefore sets himself to the study of mortification, lest, saith he, when I have been refining and purifying others, I myself be found to be drossy silver.
From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by George Gillespie
For most part, too, we must admit that the Learning, heterogeneous as it is, and tumbled-down quite pell-mell, is true, concentrated and purified Learning, the drossy parts smelted out and thrown aside.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
But spoyl’d, and rob’d, his drossier Glories gone, His Virtue and his Truth are still his own.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones
