1 The night was perfectly still, and the air so dry and pure that it gave little sensation of cold.
2 She drew aside without speaking, and Mattie and Ethan passed into the kitchen, which had the deadly chill of a vault after the dry cold of the night.
3 Nothing had ever startled or frightened her so much, and her mouth went too dry for her to utter a sound.
4 The night before had been wild and wet with rain, but when Scarlett arrived in Atlanta a warm sun was at work, bravely attempting to dry the streets that were winding rivers of red mud.
5 Then he had to dry your eyes and usually he proposed, to show just how much he did respect you.
6 Autumn with its dusty, breathless heat was slipping in to choke the suddenly quiet town, adding its dry, panting weight to tired, anxious hearts.
7 She noted how the leaves on the trees were still dark green but dry and heavily coated with red dust, and how withered and sad the untended flowers in the front yard looked.
8 She heard her own breath pass from loud evenness to spasmodic sobbing but her eyes were dry and burning as though there would never be tears in them again.
9 Money couldn't just dry up and blow away.
10 "You run up and fix me some dry clothes, Mammy," she said.
11 She thanked God tiredly that she had cried all her tears the night before, so now she could stand erect and dry eyed.
12 Her mouth was dry as she assimilated this knowledge and she swallowed and looked into his eyes, trying to find some clue.
13 Amid the tears and confusion and kissing and scurrying for smelling salts and brandy, there was only one calm face, one dry pair of eyes.
14 I'd rather Bonnie was invited to eat dry bread in the Picards' miserable house or Mrs. Elsing's rickety barn than to be the belle of a Republican inaugural ball.
15 The comfort of his arms helped dry her sudden tears.