drossy

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He did possess what, though it may seem almost profane to call it imagination, is really a cheap and drossy lower kind thereof.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

Thus was the roofe adorn'd: but for the bed, The which those sacred limmes encanaped, I could say much: yet poised with her selfe, That gorgeous worke did seeme but drossy pelfe.

From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Miller, Paul William

When the strike was over, two or three miners still remained working the soft, drossy coal, which they sold for eight-and-sixpence a ton—or sixpence a hundredweight.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

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: the life and opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh by Carlyle, Thomas

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 Bangs, John Kendrick