dryness

"I have even heard so from others," he said, with an instant of dryness.

With some dryness, she preached energy, watchfulness, and a hopeful mind.

The last will help to relieve the dryness of politics, in which O'D.

It was enough to look at him to believe in the dryness of his throat.

I had been accustomed from the beginning to dryness and privation.

The dryness of the climate makes very strongly for its salubrity.

The dryness in his tone was a paragraph of comment on my understatement.

His heart began to pound, and he swallowed to relieve the dryness in his throat.

The air must not be too dry, as dryness causes them to shrivel up.

In thin boards all parts soon attain the same degree of dryness.