dry-eyed• Going about her dailyroutine, Wilson was dry-eyed, as she knew Mrs Browning would be for a while yet.• They emergeddry-eyed but also with a dryheart.• She was dry-eyed but her expression just faintly betrayed a struggle against the pain of her injury.• She sat dry-eyed for what felt like hours, then she had a long bath and washed her hair.• Julia, stunned but dry-eyed, had given her statement to the police.• In the first car Sarah sat dry-eyed, staring out at the passing roads.