A charming little romance ... not desiccated and compressed within the pages of a book.    From LearnThat.org.  [Elinor Wylie]

Old boxes of desiccated Cuban cigars.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Insatiable reader that I was, I’d soon have desiccated from the need to imbibe stories if we had not discovered the local library.    From Wordnik.com.  [Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » A love song to libraries] Reference

Anyone who can recall the desiccated, plastic-wrapped sandwiches of British Railway's cafés will concede that competition in this arena is to be encouraged.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New York Review of Books] Reference

Do you really believe 'desiccated' has two 's's and one' c '?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]

He is more accurately a kind of desiccated Lich: an undead sorcerer, preserved against the ravages of time by Egyptian black magic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Posts Across MetaFilter] Reference

These typically include glandular products, such as desiccated liver, which are found in a variety of dietary supplements, including those for bodybuilding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technician RSS] Reference

A dry, almost desiccated laugh came over the tiny speaker.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dance Of Death]

Threaded with desiccated worm casts and that was the point.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deadheading] Reference

Epidermal tissue, is virtually gone, the body's desiccated (ph).    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript May 18, 2002] Reference

Montgomery had been a condensed and desiccated preparation of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Remember that it should be quite desiccated within fifteen minutes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference

Now they were wizened-looking, almost desiccated, crisp around the edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dance Of Death]

My lower lip was twice its former size and the one above felt desiccated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gherkin] Reference

Dried, shredded (desiccated) cocoanut is an important article of commerce.    From Wordnik.com.  [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference

Yet it appeared that the desiccated-dog-dick fortune would remain unclaimed.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Dirty Job HTML]

The latter have about 30 per cent, of dry matter when chemically desiccated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

Two cups sugar, one cup milk, one box desiccated cocoanut, small lump butter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Community Cook Book] Reference

Only Doug still looked like a little boy, albeit a stumpy and desiccated one.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

AND COHEN, B.: The antiscorbutic property of desiccated and cooked vegetables.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

Her arrival would be of interest, but not to the desiccated corpses crewing her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nor Crystal Tears]

If dried or desiccated eggs are cooked or used in cooked foods, they are not injurious.    From Wordnik.com.  [School and Home Cooking] Reference

He handed Alan a small, desiccated lump, like a black bean pierced with a paperclip wire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

But the black, desiccated, deeply cracked earth they're standing on is its own weather report.    From Wordnik.com.  [Many In Southern Sudan Long For Independence] Reference

If walnut bark or other plant parts are allowed to become desiccated, no toxicity may be found.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943] Reference

Frequently the child will scratch them off with the finger nails before they are entirely desiccated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eugenic Marriage, Volume IV. (of IV.) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference

In consequence, every speech, even those from dry and desiccated lips, was coloured with the melody of hope.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Cuthbert's] Reference

To prevent this, while the gelatine is almost dry, the tissue is placed under pressure until quite desiccated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference

Even as he thought it, a desiccated stringybark behind him shot flames in every direction, the gum in it exploding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thorn Birds]

HAMMETT: The effect of the maternal ingestion of desiccated placenta upon the rate of growth of breast fed infants.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vitamine Manual] Reference

Discomfort of the hotels was great enough; but, desiccated into the boarding-house can, it became simply unendurable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference

Then the screech, thick as a desiccated tongue, dry as the dust of a golem, like no sound and like all the sounds at once.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

One-half cup desiccated cocoanut soaked in one cupful of milk, two eggs, one small cupful of sugar, butter the size of an egg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference

The ornate red brick building with its gargoyles on the downspouts and windows was now crumbling and dark, a desiccated skeleton of a once great lady.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shiver]

After Katherine the country gradually became more arid, the trees more scattered and desiccated, till by the evening they were running through a country that was near to desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Town Like Alice]