drossy
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Time will sift it of its drossy puffs and praises.
From Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" by J. L. Cherry
Earth is a drossy thing in this man's account; earthly greatness and splendors are but like vanishing bubbles in this man's esteem.
From The Riches of Bunyan Selected from His Works by John Bunyan
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 John Kendrick Bangs
For most part, too, we must admit that the Learning, heterogeneous as it is, and tumbled-down quite pell-mell, is true concentrated and purified Learning, the drossy parts smelted out and thrown aside.
From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle
They found a plentiful seam of drossy, yellowish coal behind the Methodist New Connection Chapel.
From The Lost Girl by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
But spoyl’d, and rob’d, his drossier Glories gone, His Virtue and his Truth are still his own.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones
