drossy

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But that same lofty countenance seemes to scorne Base thing, and thinke how she to heaven may clime; Treading downe earth as lothsome and forlorne, That hinders heavenly thoughts with drossy slime.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

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

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)

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

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)