sun-dried apricots. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
They would only break into bits like sun-dried brick. From Wordnik.com. [Shepherd of the Planets] Reference
The pith is cut out, washed, sun-dried, and then pounded. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
For he had just departed with a sun-dried stack of blues. From Wordnik.com. [Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads] Reference
The Romans were great users of bricks, both burnt and sun-dried. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
It was a two-story structure, built of adobe, or sun-dried brick. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
The material used in their construction was chiefly sun-dried brick. From Wordnik.com. [General History for Colleges and High Schools] Reference
It has simply to be cut and sun-dried and is ready for roof thatching. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
How the sun-dried reed-beds crackled, how the flint-strewn ranges rang. From Wordnik.com. [Australian Writers] Reference
And when she saw the river full of salmon, she thought of the sun-dried meat. From Wordnik.com. [The Later Cave-Men] Reference
Most of the inhabited pueblos are built of adobe -- that is, sun-dried bricks. From Wordnik.com. [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference
She flew to the old sun-dried gourd, and bailed away again till her arms were tired. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
The fish is preserved by being gutted, cooked, and sun-dried, and has a shrimp taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The extensive use of sun-dried bricks of adobe has grown up within quite recent times. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
Two ragged lines of huts, built of sun-dried brick, formed a single straggling street. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
British, is readily recognized by an apparently sun-dried, lank and hard habit of body. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
It was built of sun-dried brick, with three walls, the fourth side open to the sunrise. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Some are said to have been made of wood, others of stone, and some again of sun-dried clay. From Wordnik.com. [A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891, pages 3-228] Reference
Thus the term "adobe," the sun-dried brick, as applied to a man, signifies vealiness and verdancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
United States is an ancient house built of adobes, or sun-dried brick, in the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
These were dull brown, with a forbidding look, like sun-dried skulls baring teeth in warning against all comers. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
This mixture is removed in lumps and shaped into bricks, in moulds or by hand, the bricks being simply sun-dried. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
"Even today, brick -- sun-dried or fired -- is the building material of choice for most of the world's population.". From Wordnik.com. [Brick facades are sturdy, but keeping them that way requires care] Reference
But these sun-dried bricks soon spoil if they get wet, so he had to build a verandah to keep the rain from the walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Missionary Heroes] Reference
In the Philippines the fresh ripe berries, when thoroughly sun-dried, lose an average weight of 52 per cent. moisture. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The sun-dried berries ready for pounding (husking) give an average of 33.70 of their weight in marketable coffee-beans. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Caborca, La Cienega, and turning on the sun-dried rutted road to Ures, which lies parched and dry in the semi-tropical sun. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Armies The New Technique of Nazi Warfare] Reference
Whilst waiting for her to recover he had noted numerous sun-dried poles scattered about the beach, and those he pointed to. From Wordnik.com. [A Mating in the Wilds] Reference
It is the naturally sun-dried droppings of nesting sea birds that accumulates in thick layers on rocky islands off the coast of. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
It was the sun-dried and sinew-strung shell of a tortoise that suggested the lyre to Mercury, as he walked by the shore of Nilus. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference
The fare ranged from bruschetta on gluten-free bread to a garlicky, gluten-free fusilli with sun-dried tomatoes, chicken and broccoli. From Wordnik.com. [Waiter, Please Hold the Wheat] Reference
The unripe fruit is cut up in slices, sun-dried and used as an astringent; the ripe fruit is described as sweet, aromatic and cooling. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Ramsay de Give for The Wall Street Journal Astice, shown at left, is made with Nova Scotia lobster, sun-dried tomatoes, olives and plum. From Wordnik.com. [High-Ticket Italian] Reference
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