Whatever the ultimate satisfaction may have been, the attraction was something transcending humidity, aridity, or immediate possibility of attainment.
"Edge of the Jungle"
William Beebe
And as he didn't, neither did I, and the aridity of that house!
"The Enchanted April"
Elizabeth von Arnim
That severe and even forbidding quality which is perceptible in the aspect of the South African mountains, as it is in those of some other hot countries, seems to be due to the sense of their aridity and bareness.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce