drossy

Example Sentences

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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

They found a plentiful seam of drossy, yellowish coal behind the Methodist New Connection Chapel.

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

Less sins the poor rich man that starves himself In heaping up a mass of drossy pelf, Than such as you.

From Hero and Leander by Marlowe, Christopher

Amongst the drossy twaddle which passed current as poetry at Eartham, a sonnet in Romney's honour by a true poet—William Cowper—may be counted as pure gold.

From Art in England Notes and Studies by Cook, Dutton

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