Routine becomes of no avail under the swift change of conditions; conventions fall away like dry husks.

"I told you we'd find her if we bided our time," said one of the vampires, his voice as dry as corn husks.

But a huge mass of dry husk near the station caught fire and as a result 2-3 people burnt alive.

I nodded, and he crushed the dry husk One, two, three seeds rolled into my outstretched palm.

It draws out the body's fluids and leaves only a dry husk.

'He's my brother,' he replied to the Castellan in a voice like a dry husk.

Along with the dry, shattered husks of 1,385 human beings.

He was a dry husk, shaking with chills.

He hacked until his lungs felt like dry husks.

There was nothing left of the feared Daisangyoja but a dry husk of a man.