1. The librarian was a dried-up, bitter old man.

2. The mud in the dried-up river bed had cracked.

3. They camped in a dried-up river bed.

4. A dried-up old spinster like that talking of love!

5. Oil tanks hide behind pampas grasses and dried-up clematis.

6. There was a dried-up riverbed not far away, and along its banks were the skeletons of trees long dead.

7. She had blood on her face, dried-up and mixed with grit from the road.

8. Impotent old devils and dried-up hags always deride the efforts of the young.

9. A state insect hunter found the dried-up male Medfly in a trap in Milpitas on Sept. 29.

10. The latest satellite data shows a dried-up Huai River.

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11. It may lead to a dried-up, holier-than-thou sanctity which hides and protects the very egoism he sets out to kill.

12. In dried-up rivers, fish can survive by moistening each other with saliva. We can also get through these difficulties by encouraging each other.

13. a dried-up river bed.

14. Situated underground on the bottom of an ancient dried-up sea, it has, apparently, been in existence for thousands of years but was recently re-established in the early 1960s by an international team.

15. Wetlands often develop in the meander scars of dried-up oxbow lakes.

16. He presented pictures of sun-baked riverbeds and dried-up wells at the seminar, including one of a man straddling cracks in a dry riverbed.

17. Some went gathering dried-up branches for the stove while others fetched fresh water from a nearby stream.

18. The global economic crisis tied to dried-up bank credit -- the lifeblood of all markets -- rocked Wall Street but also rolled over commodities, bursting bubbles right and left.

19. The money raised will be used to dig bore holes to pump water into the dried-up lake.

20. What kind of private life could be imagined for this dried-up bundle of chilblains and nasal catarrh?

21. Hubei province, Honghu city: A fisherman tries to paddle his boat through a small stream amid the partially dried-up fishery in the Honghu lake, Hubei province.

22. But there is evidence that the Red Planet had a warmer and wetter past: dried-up river beds, polar ice caps, volcanoes and minerals that form in the presence of water have all been found.

23. There are plains of hard sands and plateaus with dried-up water courses.

24. She took out the plate, stared blankly at the dried-up food on it, and tipped it into the bin.

25. Above, a Chinese fishing boat is berthed along a dried-up river bank on the Yangtze on Jan. 5.

26. The children grabbed the boards and raced off to skate in the cracked bowl of the dried-up fountain.

27. His skin was covered in a mixture of oils and resins and bathed in a solution of Natron, a salt found in dried-up river beds in Egypt.

28. If the test drive goes to plan in early 2012, then the car will be taken that summer to a dried-up lake bed in South Africa's Northern Cape for the attempt at the land speed record.

29. The Persians entered the city secretively, during a time of drought, through a dried-up waterway.

30. The discovery is based on a detailed study of the dried-up river deltas and thousands of river valleys that scatter the Martian surface.

31. The degradation of Robinia pseudoacacia plantation on Yellow River Delta took place in large area and the shoots of R. pseudoacacia trees were dried-up with different degree.

32. Fireflies flit in the bush near the dried-up pond, and bamboo branches fling their shadows on the grass-grown path.

33. Many geological features like canyons, dried-up lakes and river channels point to the flow of liquid water in the distant past when Mars may have been warmer.

34. It takes in the dried-up soil, the prickly pear, the palm tree and the distant mountain, but it always misses the peasant hoeing at his patch.