drossy
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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 Sartor Resartus: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Carlyle, Thomas
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 Gillespie, George
Time will sift it of its drossy puffs and praises.
From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by Cherry, J. L.
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 Saintsbury, George
Thus was the roofe adorn'd: but for the bed, The which those sacred limmes encanaped, I could say much: yet poised with her selfe, That gorgeous worke did seeme but drossy pelfe.
From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Miller, Paul William
