Adjective : a dry-as-dust biography. From Dictionary.com.
Steeped though you frown in this dryasdust clever age. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, March 26, 1892] Reference
In the last pages of the book, his literary executor, commenting on the journal that has been the vehicle for the narrative, reviews events from the perspective of an unperceptive dryasdust and fashions a rational explanation of the less believable aspects of the tale. From Wordnik.com. [Stromata Blog:] Reference
The writer, who is something of a tsiganologue, emboldened by his success, followed up his alphabet, which appeared January 21st, 1893, and within a year had placed to his credit three-score contributions, most of them in verse -- rather a remarkable achievement for one heretofore considered a mere bookworm and dryasdust. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
The genuineness of this winning little letter could never be doubted except by the most dryasdust of pedants. From Wordnik.com. [The Books of the New Testament] Reference
Upon the dryasdust intricacies of grammar; and it is not as though he had already attained; he only desperately follows after. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Browning]
He fancied himself with this girl for his wife, and the delight of going back from the dull dryasdust labours of his city life to a home in which she would bid him welcome. From Wordnik.com. [Fenton's Quest] Reference
The annalist, be he dryasdust or gossip, is, in legal phrase, "the devil" of the prose artist, whose work makes almost as great a demand on the imaginative faculty as that of the poet. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Carlyle] Reference
“J.R.G.,” as we loved to call him, took up my efforts with the warmest encouragement, tempered, indeed, by constant fears that I should become a hopeless bookworm and dryasdust, yielding day after day to the mere luxury of reading, and putting nothing into shape!. From Wordnik.com. [Writer's Recollections]
Score after score of decreta, decretales, Sextuses, and Clementines, and chestsful of the dreariest theological disquisition impress upon the weary searcher the fact that academic libraries were usually even more dryasdust than monastic collections, and he begins to understand how prosperous law may be as a calling, and to have an inkling of what is known, in classic phrase, as a good plain Scotch education. From Wordnik.com. [Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages] Reference
A hopeless bookworm and dryasdust, yielding day after day to the mere luxury of reading, and putting nothing into shape!. From Wordnik.com. [A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1] Reference
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