Who could sit dry-eyed through the death of Pere Goriot?
It is possible to sit dry-eyed for two hours watching this "Christmas Carol," then mist up at the end when Tim gives Mr. Scrooge the gentlest of hugs.
There they sit, drying for a week or so (the chances of rain are almost nil), until a sweeper comes along and gathers them.
Now the great cracks in its cerulean bottom lie exposed as it sits dry, filled only with rotting leaves.
And in Calais's most pitiable camp, out of town on Chemin du Vivier on a wasteland behind a supermarket depot where 200 Sudanese men live, a 50-gallon drinking water tank sits dry.
Although this loved-one is human, under the poet's amorous gaze she is deeply otter-like in her out-of-reachness: "I sat dry throated on the stones,/ You were beyond me".
Officials at the 79-year-old monument recently restored the flow of water by pumping it uphill from a nearby source after the main attraction had sat dry for more than two years.
Coffee mugs with the logo of a nearby yoga center sat drying on a multitiered cart and a bulletin board advertised "Potters needed".
It's then the connoisseur of your bouquet (Who sits dry-eyed through Oedipus or Lear) Will shed, O Happiness, a furtive tear.
The organics were washed 3X with H2O + 10% NaCl (sat), dried over Na2SO4, gravity filtered, and solvents removed in vacuo at room temperature.
