1. His performance is all sly looks and bone-dry readings, held together by a general air of barely contained exasperation at the antics of the fools and knaves who surround him.

2. Above: The bone-dry Three Graces Fountain stands in the pavilion in front of the mall.

3. Another apatite researcher, Francis McCubbin of the University of New Mexico, points out that one person's "bone-dry" could be another person's "relatively damp."

4. Preserved by the bone-dry Atacama Desert and an elaborate deathbed treatment, the oldest mummies in the world have gone on display in the Chilean capital, Santiago.

5. The colon was ablaze, like a bone-dry bale of hay soaked in gasoline and then set afire.

6. Hot, dusty harmattan winds blow across the bone-dry desert, which receives an annual rainfall of about 1 inch (25 millimeters). : ?

7. In the 2009 image, the salt lake appears bone-dry, filled with off-white sediment.

8. Now research shows how one plant does this: The desert rhubarb plant captures 16 times more liquid from its bone-dry surroundings than neighboring plants.

9. The Mars we are coming to know has embraced environments ranging from bone-dry to soaking wet to blanketed with snow and ice.

10. Disappointment because NASA sent Spirit to Mars to search for signs of water, and the rocks near the landing site were all made in a bone-dry environment.

11. This plant can also dry out between waterings, but you don't want it to be so bone-dry that it's separating from the sides of its container.

12. "Next winter will be the final chance, " said Hashem Hilead Shehi, a 73 - year - old farmer who lives in a bone-dry village west of the marshes.

13. The rover's photographs showed only dust and sand and bone-dry volcanic lava rocks.http:///bone-dry.html

14. A new study suggests that, contrary to recent work, the lunar interior is as bone-dry as scientists thought 40 years ago, when NASA astronauts lugged home the first moon rocks.

15. We met Isaac and Abdi, Alima and Muslima last week in the bone-dry, stony land close to the Ethiopia-Kenya border.

16. Such estimates are hard to reconcile with the new chlorine work suggesting a bone-dry moon.