unmoistened

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This solemn communion, at which I have never in our own church attended with unmoistened eyes, was administered the same evening.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

Reproach and appeal alike spattered off Eulalie’s buoyant nature as a water sprinkler’s steadiest shower rolls in globules from the crisp, unmoistened leaves of the nasturtium.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various

There are none could have heard with an unmoistened eye, That most simple and eloquent story, Which told us of virtues, so rare and so high, That we paused to admire and deplore thee.

From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Campbell, Theophila Carlile

Nay, dry up—Daughter of our Age, dry up thy tears! and we shall set a vision before thine eyes to fill them with unmoistened light.

From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde

But she did not succumb in aspect, after the wordless struggle died away in a quiver of the unmoistened lips.

From Jessamine A Novel by Harland, Marion