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The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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A name of Sir Walter Scott's invention, and employed by him to denote an imaginary character who supplied him with dry preliminary historical details, and since used to denote a writer who treats a historical subject with all due diligence and research, but without any appreciation of the human interest in it, still less the soul of it.

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Dryasdust'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​d/dryasdust.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
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