moistureless

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The moistureless air causes feet to swell painfully, noses and eyes to itch and asthmatics to gasp for breath.

From Time Magazine Archive

Beneath the chalk is moistureless, and nothing can grow on it.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

It stood there still—a thing of paved streets, and dead walls, safe in that moistureless world from decay.

From Palos of the Dog Star Pack by Giesy, J. U.

He walked light-headed in the moistureless chill of the rare sub-Arctic air.

From Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

Wells have been sunk to a very great depth, but nothing has been found except hard, rocky, moistureless earth. 

From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Huc, Evariste Regis