"Bone-dry" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... and patted his hand. "Oh, no, my dear. I've enough to do to be an example to myself. I liked the way it was out at the Corbetts'. They've gone bone-dry. And,—oh, please don't think that I'm a prig—I am a little better without it—just now, anyway. Tell me what's gone wrong at ...
— Mary Wollaston • Henry Kitchell Webster
... bone-dry weather had helped to make his action a success. The moss ignited at first touch of the match. Up along the festoon shot a tongue of red flame. The nearest adjoining branch's burden of moss caught the fiery ...
— Black Caesar's Clan • Albert Payson Terhune |
