Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Dry

Dry as a London newspaper.
—George Ade

Dry as a bone.
—Anonymous

Dry as a prohibition fight in Vermont.
—Anonymous

Dry as a sponge.
—Anonymous

Dry as nuts.
—Anonymous

Dry as peanut shells.
—Anonymous

Dry as pith.
—Anonymous

Dry as tinder.
—Anonymous

Dry as soon as tears.
—Anonymous

Drye as clot of clay.
—Old English Ballad

Dry as desert dust.
—Stopford A. Brooke

Dry as a cinder.
—Joseph Conrad

Dry as a chip.
—Charles Dickens

Dry as a lime-basket.
—Charles Dickens

Dry as the desert.
—Charles Dickens

Dry as granite.
—Dr. John Doran

Dry as ashes.
—George Eliot

Dry as an espalier vine in winter.
—Anatole France

Dry as the shell on the sand.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Dried like a raisin.
—Charles Lamb

Dry as the leaves in winter.
—Walter Savage Landor

Dry as sand.
—Charles G. Leland

Dry as a pond in the Summer.
—Samuel Lover

Dry as the tomb.
—Robert Mackay

Dry as flame.
—Ouida

Dry as dust.
—William Shakespeare

Dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage.
—William Shakespeare

Dry as tinder.
—Tobias Smollett

Drying up like a brook when the woods have been cleared around.
—Bayard Taylor

Dry as fossil truths.
—Henry D. Thoreau

Dry and yellow as parchment.
—Henry Van Dyke