tinder-dryness

Updated: January 1, 2026

The time for their annual return has come has passed, and still the pitiless sun scorches the brown earth as if it would set afire the grass it has already burned to tinder-dryness.

Clarence Hamilton Poe - Where Half The World Is Waking Up : The Old and the New in Japan, China, the Philippines, and India, Reported With Especial Reference to American Conditions