dry as dust
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"I love genealogists, and they make what I do possible, but those records can be as dry as dust," Gates said during a recent interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2014
"Are you aware," he said, in a voice dry as dust, "that there's a $60 tip for the minister?"
From The Guardian ● Mar. 27, 2010
I crawl over to her and start to dig beside her, the dirt beneath the grass dry as dust in my fingers.
From "Paper Towns" by John Green
He had been clad in mail, and still his harness lay there whole; for the cavern’s air was as dry as dust, and his hauberk was gilded.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
Cicadas hummed insistently in the trees, and the soil was dry as dust.
From "Red Kayak" by Priscilla Cummings
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