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Example sentences for "drier"

Lexicographically close words:
dribe; driblet; driblets; drie; dried; driers; dries; driest; drieth; drift
  1. When drying is accomplished by heat from a stove, the drier is hung over a stove or it rests on the top of the stove.

  2. This process of testing and making them sufficiently dry after removing from the drier is termed conditioning.

  3. It was evident that the country into which we were now advancing, was drier and more difficult than the country we had left behind.

  4. Is it that the climate is drier than it once was, and that the rains are less frequent?

  5. When caterpillars are bred in the study it must not be forgotten that the air inside a house is much drier than it is out of doors amongst the trees and low herbage, where caterpillars live naturally.

  6. At the approach of winter, however, all or most of these species will leave the swamp and seek drier ground, where they hibernate under old leaves, under bark of trees, or in rotten stumps near the edge of the swamp.

  7. If the drier promptly unites and takes kindly to a close relationship with the oil without curdling or showing other evidences of disagreement, it will merit the approval of the painter.

  8. I found the hollows we saw this day drier than usual; but we at length succeeded in discovering three good ponds.

  9. The drier earth below seemed to be steaming the wet soil above it (as Brown, our cook, justly observed).

  10. Khasiana) besides the yew, (and two Podocarpi), and that is only found in the drier interior regions.

  11. Here also appeared the great oak with lamellated acorns, which I had not seen in the drier valleys to the westward; with many other Dorjiling trees and shrubs.

  12. It is hence quite unlike the forest-clad mountains further south, and indicates a drier and more sunny climate.

  13. On the Birbhoom and Behar hills, where the amount of vapour is so small that the afternoon is but little drier than the forenoon, there is little difference between the solar light at each time.

  14. Calcutta is relatively drier in the afternoon than that of the hills; the difference between the Calcutta sunrise and afternoon saturation-point being 0.

  15. In the drier season again, after September, the greatest heat occurs between 2 and 3 p.

  16. If my observations are correct, they probably indicate a diminished pressure, which is not easily accounted for, the lower portion of the atmospheric column at Rampore being considerably drier and therefore heavier than at Calcutta.

  17. I have before mentioned (chapter xxiii) that in descending in autumn from the drier and more sunny rearward Sikkim valleys, the vegetation is found to be most backward in the lowest and dampest regions.

  18. It was accompanied by an Astragalus, Geranium, and several other plants of the drier interior parts of Sikkim.

  19. The atmosphere became drier as we receded from the mountains.

  20. No rain had fallen for weeks; the slopes of the lower Apennines, ever dry and dusty, shone still drier and dustier than Alan had yet beheld them.

  21. SHE could see nothing in it all but dry hill-sides, crowned with still drier towns; unimagined stretches of sultry suburb; devouring wastes of rubbish and foul immemorial kitchen-middens.

  22. Apart, however, from agriculture, of which I shall speak later, the riches of Peru have consisted of three natural products, which belong to the drier tracts.

  23. The air was drier and the aspect of things not, indeed, less green, for there had been neither shrub nor plant visible since we passed Juncal, but more scorched and more aggressively sterile.

  24. The climate is very pleasant, and especially to be recommended in summer, as being drier than the coast towns, though within such a short distance of Cape Town.

  25. The climate is drier than that of the coast plateau, and its ease of access from Cape Town enables supplies to be readily brought up.

  26. Mostly they filled up their bellies and their kegs, hoping to last through, but they sure found it drier than cork legs, and generally long before they hit the Springs their tongues was hangin' out a foot.

  27. At the same time the hosses, left sort of to themselves and bein' drier than a covered bridge, drug forward and stuck their noses in the trough.

  28. The forest is noticeably drier and more open than at Chinaja (Pl.

  29. Possibly in drier environments the species characteristically inhabits bromeliads, at least in the dry season.

  30. Squashes, sweet potatoes, and some other things, need to be kept in an intermediate and what might be called a high temperature; and the atmosphere should be drier than for most other products.

  31. The indications are that the scale will never be so serious in the moist, cool climates of the northeastern states as it is in the hotter and drier climates of the West.

  32. Some of the drier part of the soil the moucher takes to sell for use in gardens and flower-pots as peat.

  33. So I bade him take his weapons, and with what provender we could carry upon our backs we proceeded all of us together to the rocky stairway leading to the drier inner cave.

  34. Thus, strawberries must be carefully stirred, raspberries must be mashed with a wooden spoon; and both these fruits, being soft and juicy, require less boiling than the drier kinds.

  35. If pears constitute the bulk of the store, the fruit-house should be rather drier and rather warmer than in the case of apples.

  36. On this drier the flocks become baked dry, and are about as hard as dry mud.

  37. The drier is simply a frame upon which is nailed a large surface of wire sieving, directly under which are coils of hot steam pipes.

  38. Towards the northern boundary the pine increases, in more and more open stands as one goes northward into the drier climate.

  39. And if the Haruest bée drier in the first part, then in the yeare following shal Rie, and that smal graine named Mill, and suchlyke, be deare.

  40. And if the sommer be drier than customably, then shal follow the scarcitie of corne, yet the Sommer fruites shall that yeare be sound, the fishes then die, and most sharpe sicknesses shall raine that yeare.

  41. In like manner several of the western forms suited to drier climates find their eastern limit in Kumaon.

  42. The tropical forest is characterized by the trees of the hotter and drier parts of southern India, combined with a few of European type.

  43. While in flower, orchids may with advantage be removed to a drier and cooler situation, and may be utilized in the drawing-room or boudoir.

  44. Some ferns, as the different kinds of Gymnogramme and Cheilanthes, prefer a drier atmosphere than others, and the former do not well bear a lower winter temperature than about 60 deg.

  45. The desert is drier than when I struggled through it, more dead than alive, by the path these people came by and that way it would be madness to try!

  46. There are people who back its oracle against the Weather Bureau and claim that they travel warmer and drier by so doing.

  47. The mayflower snuggles into the leaves along its drier upper margins, here and there, and is to be found on the borders of the "sea" more plentifully.

  48. Some of the latter might be found to be favorable to the robust gigas, or to rubrinervis, which requires a drier air, with rainfall in the springtime and sunshine during the summer.

  49. On the mountains the light is more intense, the air drier and cooler.


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