long-dried

Then there are 15 already with seed, and these spreading parachutes of beige floss are leaving, carried on the prevailing south-westerlies, so that they slew across their neighbours' heads, those long-dried skeletons of cow parsley.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011

He was going to have to pick up the thread of a normal life again and although he did not exactly know why, he had to start by coming back here, back to the greenhouse warmth of the Panhandle, back to this very quarter-mile oval that still held his long-dried sweat.

'Once a Runner' 2009

In a few places, Hal spotted the dark, nearly black stains of long-dried blood on the ground, but no body to accompany them.

Thunder and Ashes Z.A. Recht 2008

I swear to God the climate was better then than now with a refilled lake and the long-dried lake bottom provided a livelihood to thousands no longer having that option.

Lake Level Sucks 11-19-05 2005

He stank of long-dried sweat, dirt ground into the skin, and the tang of dribbled urine; they all did, and the odor of them floated on the wind, feral as the stink of weasels.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Then at the base of the door I noticed a trace of long-dried soil, and with that, through the window in the upper half of the door, a much-abused, sweat-dark hat the colour of earth seemed to pass: the gardener.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Then at the base of the door I noticed a trace of long-dried soil, and with that, through the window in the upper half of the door, a much-abused, sweat-dark hat the colour of earth seemed to pass: the gardener.

Locked Rooms King, Laurie R. 2005

Perhaps, at least, someone may hold this up, like the petal of a long-dried flower preserved between two pages, and wonder who put it there.

Jacob's Ladder Mackay, Colin 2003

Shainsa, first in the chain of Dry-towns that lie in the bed of a long-dried ocean, is set at the center of a great alkali plain; a dusty, parched city bleached by a million years of sun.

The Door Through Space Marion Zimmer Bradley 1964

The bed of an ancient lake, Travis speculated, or perhaps even the arm of a long-dried sea.

The Defiant Agents Andre Norton 1958