While this may sound uncomfortable, doing so will ensure that your wool cap dries exactly in the shape of your head.
After years of suffering flooding from rainstorms, Mr. Gates had, that summer, installed something like a dry well (exactly what he did is part of the dispute), a precast concrete structure that collects water and dissipates it into the soil.
His shapely, lively, gently rigorous memoirs, out of the abundance of heartfelt writing he bestowed on posterity, are most like being with Bill in life, at lunch in midtown or at home in the East Eighties, as he intently listened, and listened, and then said, in his soft dry voice, exactly the right thing.
Tomatoes, zucchini, onion and other vegetables can be sun dried in exactly the same way.
It's not exactly dry, but it is slightly predictable.
Audot's madeleines are indeed wonderfully light, but though not exactly dry, they are definitely tougher than the others I make, and keep less well, too (not that any of them last particularly well; like so many of the most exquisite pleasures, this is a fleeting one).
Under the trees in the rain, I shine the torch around and manage to find a couple of likely logs, not exactly dry, but what the heck: Mark had said there was a good hotel over the field and I was pretty sure I would be heading that way before too long.
They were not dry and deadpan, exactly (though they were, through the years, increasingly droll).
A hot and dry desert is exactly how it sounds: excessively hot and dry.
