moistureless

Kornfeld: Yeah, it’s a moistureless libido.

Beneath the chalk is moistureless, and nothing can grow on it.

Ere the advent of the Normans small mountain sheep with the single lamb at their heels had swarmed over its hoary sides, browsing amid its moistureless grass, nipping the fresh shoots during the summer time, and retreating to the lowlands at the advent of winter.

Naturally, this function of water as a solvent can only exist when water is in the liquid state; solid water, that is ice, neither dissolves nor flows; and water, when heated to boiling point, passes into vapour, and so leaves the organism moistureless, and therefore dead.

It stood there still—a thing of paved streets, and dead walls, safe in that moistureless world from decay.