drossy
Example Sentences
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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 Saintsbury, George
What he thus sucked in, he purged from its drossy mixtures, replenished with fresh vitality, and gave it back clothed in the grace and strength of his own clear spirit.
From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman
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 Bangs, John Kendrick
They found a plentiful seam of drossy, yellowish coal behind the Methodist New Connection Chapel.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
When the strike was over, two or three miners still remained working the soft, drossy coal, which they sold for eight-and-sixpence a ton—or sixpence a hundredweight.
From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)
