drossy

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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

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

The Apostle therefore sets himself to the study of mortification, lest, saith he, when I have been refining and purifying others, I myself be found to be drossy silver.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

What he thus sucked in, he purged from its drossy mixtures, replenished with fresh vitality, and gave it back clothed in the grace and strength of his own clear spirit.

From Shakespeare: His Life, Art, And Characters, Volume I. With An Historical Sketch Of The Origin And Growth Of The Drama In England by Hudson, Henry Norman

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