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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Dry
 
  Dry as a London newspaper.
            —George Ade		  1
  Dry as a bone.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Dry as a prohibition fight in Vermont.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Dry as a sponge.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Dry as nuts.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Dry as peanut shells.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Dry as pith.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Dry as tinder.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Dry as soon as tears.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Drye as clot of clay.
            —Old English Ballad		  10
  Dry as desert dust.
            —Stopford A. Brooke		  11
  Dry as a cinder.
            —Joseph Conrad		  12
  Dry as a chip.
            —Charles Dickens		  13
  Dry as a lime-basket.
            —Charles Dickens		  14
  Dry as the desert.
            —Charles Dickens		  15
  Dry as granite.
            —Dr. John Doran		  16
  Dry as ashes.
            —George Eliot		  17
  Dry as an espalier vine in winter.
            —Anatole France		  18
  Dry as the shell on the sand.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  19
  Dried like a raisin.
            —Charles Lamb		  20
  Dry as the leaves in winter.
            —Walter Savage Landor		  21
  Dry as sand.
            —Charles G. Leland		  22
  Dry as a pond in the Summer.
            —Samuel Lover		  23
  Dry as the tomb.
            —Robert Mackay		  24
  Dry as flame.
            —Ouida		  25
  Dry as dust.
            —William Shakespeare		  26
  Dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.
            —William Shakespeare		  27
  Dry as tinder.
            —Tobias Smollett		  28
  Drying up like a brook when the woods have been cleared around.
            —Bayard Taylor		  29
  Dry as fossil truths.
            —Henry D. Thoreau		  30
  Dry and yellow as parchment.
            —Henry Van Dyke		  31
 
 
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