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Sentences ending with desert

He and she would meet alone in the desert. [11]
And the viper would fasten on his hand--it had fastened on his hand, and he had struck it off; but it would come again, the dark thing against which he had fought in the desert. [11]
Prepared for the worst, they trudged on with blind hope, eager to die fighting if they must die, rather than to perish of hunger and thirst in the desert. [11]
Where had the wood been gathered in this desert? [10]
Fielding and Norman were eager and nervous, and their hands and faces seemed to have taken on the arid nature of the desert. [11]
Falsehood and hypocrisy were as unfamiliar to her as fishing is to the sons of the desert. [10]
Of what avail was my flight from the world, and my useless sojourn in the desert? [10]
But they were voices and voices only; for they who sang were as unkempt and forceless as the lonely wall which shut them in from the insistent soul of the desert. [11]
A dromedary flashing up the sands,--spray of the dry ocean sailed by the "ship of the desert. [6]
It is known to us as the Simoom, the wind so perilous to travellers in the desert. [10]

Short sentences using desert

He is in the desert. [11]
The desert was not desolate. [11]
Wilt thou desert it? [11]
What's a desert good for? [5]
When did he desert? [7]
And would they desert him? [9]
I will not desert him. [11]
Let them desert! [9]
He won't desert. [5]
Don't desert us! [5]

Sentences containing desert two or more times

I ran into the desert, and the jackals flew before me--outcasts of the desert, they and I. [11]
Five days of pushing the wagon by day and freezing by night brought us to the bad part of the journey--the Forty Mile Desert, or the Great American Desert, if you please. [5]
Now it was mastered by the dreams he had dreamed of the East: the desert skies, high and clear and burning, the desert sunsets, plaintive and peaceful and unvaried--one lovely diffusion, in which day dies without splendour and in a glow of pain. [11]
If I have made a desert, I at least have peace; but it is not quite a desert. [4]
Yet sometimes, almost in despair, when I have lain down in the desert beside my camel, set about with enemies, I have got a message from the barren desert, the wide silence, and the stars. [11]
He and Van Buren are the same "manner of men"; and, like Van Buren, he will never desert you till you first desert him. [7]
That would have been all very well in the desert, but this is not the desert, and I'm not doing business with the Highness any more. [11]
Can there be a worse case than to desert and with letters persuading others to desert? [7]

More example sentences with the word desert in them

If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
I imposed upon you, when I made you think Lelaps came from Swabia; he was really born in the desert, where the tigers live. [10]
Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
It was because you would not desert your sea-captain. [9]
But, Aristomachus, would you then avoid the few Oases in the desert, because you must afterwards return to its sands and drought? [10]
With a glass you can see the cow-sheds about its base, and the contented sheep nimbling pebbles in the desert solitudes that surround it, and the tired pigs dozing in the holy calm of its protecting shadow. [5]
You have not yet broken the wonderful son of the desert of shying, as you promised. [10]
Now a skiff would dart away from one of them, and come fighting its laborious way across the desert of water. [5]
Desert, it is worth making a note of. [4]
I can't, I won't desert my principles (The knock is repeated. [9]
Well, it was wonderful to think of, and I says: "Why, I've heard talk about this Desert plenty of times, but I never knowed before how important she was. [5]
He was alone with the sky and the desert and his fate. [11]
One heavenward draws, with rays so mild and clear, Eyes dim with tears, when the world darkness veils, Showing 'mid desert wastes the spring anear, If, spent with wandering, your courage fails. [10]
The eastern coast, with its ragged outline of bays, headlands, indentations, islands, capes, and sand-spits, from Watch Hill, a favorite breezy resort, to Mount Desert, presents an almost continual chain of hotels and summer cottages. [4]
The scorching desert wind which, during the Spring months, so often blows through the valley of the Nile, had risen, and though the bright blue sky which had been visible by night and day was still cloudless, it was veiled by a whitish mist. [10]
And you, you--the wife of the man who has induced thousands to desert King Philip, the wife of the exile, who directs the resistance within these walls. [10]
The desert is wide and there is room and to spare to starve in it, and for your bones to bleach there. [10]
Two only escaped, who fled to the desert, and were followed one hundred and fifty miles before they were overtaken and slaughtered. [5]
The wavering hearts which, in the desert of Sin, had been on the verge of despair were again filled with the anticipation of life, hope, and grateful faith. [10]
Beside the springs which there gushed from the soil of the desert grew green palm trees and thorny acacias. [10]
The means by which she had intended to destroy him had been transformed into a benefit, and while in the desert he had perceived how often man finally blesses, as the highest gain, what he at first regarded as the most cruel affliction. [10]
One is that which regards this world as only a waste and a desert, across the sands of which we are merely fugitives, fleeing from the wrath to come. [4]
Only my letters--in which I complain of the piratical sons of the desert who fall upon the messengers--will reach the king. [10]
This desert, around which hovered gulls, sea-swallows, and sea-eagles, had been for several weeks the abode of the fugitives, Dion and Barine. [10]
Her verbal output, when left undoctored by her clerks, is quite unmistakable It always exhibits the strongly distinctive features observable in the virgin passages from her pen already quoted by me: Desert vacancy, as regards thought. [5]
What their homes were to them, these fellaheen, dragged forth to defend their country, to go into the desert and waste their lives under leaders tyrannous, cruel, and incompetent, his old open life, his innocence, his integrity, his truthfulness and character, were to him. [11]
At last, here were the "wild, free sons of the desert, speeding over the plain like the wind, on their beautiful Arabian mares" we had read so much about and longed so much to see! [5]
A few ants were in this desert place, but merely to spend the summer. [5]
There was one way in from the desert to the walled town, and it was through that space which Achmet and his men had occupied, and on which Ali Wad Hei might now, at any moment, throw his troops. [11]
At first it was to steal a camel and take the desert for Berber. [11]
Half the price was paid by Macnamara to the sheikh before they left the shade of the palm-trees, and, striking through the hills, emerged again into the desert farther north. [11]
She said he was like a man on a desert island. [9]
Hearing that Bezukhov was in Orel, Willarski, though they had never been intimate, came to him with the professions of friendship and intimacy that people who meet in a desert generally express for one another. [2]
Suddenly a shot was fired, then a hoarse shout came over the desert, then there was silence again. [11]
And David Claridge was coming out of the desert, was coming to-day-now! [11]
There was a wait of half an hour at the end of the first act, and I could not trust myself to do it, for I felt that I should desert to stay out. [5]
The faithful Banks vowed, with tears in his eyes, that he would never desert me. [9]
Everything was plainly visible, for the desert tract of the Nekropolis, where at this hour utter darkness and silence usually reigned, was brightly lighted up. [10]
To those remaining veteran patriots whose footsteps we followed to this distant desert, and who by their blood and toil have converted it into a smiling country, we now look. [9]
All this was very well and very comfortable and satisfactory--but now we were to cross a desert in daylight. [5]
Generly it was very still in the Desert nights, but this time there was music. [5]
On the western verge of the Desert we halted a moment at Ragtown. [5]
Leaving all the vague, waste, endless spaces of the washing desert, the ocean-steamer and the fishing-smack sail straight towards each other as if they ran in grooves ploughed for them in the waters from the beginning of creation! [6]
Then in strong, unmerciful voice he laid Achmet's crime before them, and told the story of the bridge-opener, who had that day expiated his crime in the desert by the hands of Mahommed--but not with torture, as Mahommed had hoped might be. [11]
It was a two-story log house situated on a small knoll in the midst of the vast basin or desert through which the sickly Carson winds its melancholy way. [5]
We better not try to take de whole Desert, Mars Tom, de vials gwyne to bust us, sho'. [5]
He proposed to travel after sunset, with a few faithful servants on swift horses as far as Keft, and from thence ride fast across the desert to the Red Sea, where they could take a Phoenician ship, and sail to Aila. [10]
The light, warm touch soothed the fettered prince of the desert, and, rubbing his brow against Melissa's round arm, he muttered a low, contented growl. [10]
A nightmare seemed to weigh upon the palace and its occupants; for in addition to grief for their beloved prince, which saddened many a heart, the dread of death and the desert wind paralyzed alike the energy of mind and body. [10]
We cannot go to war against desert wastes; but as our host is already under arms and our swords have lain long in their scabbards, war we must have. [10]
Another was going to scalp such Bedouins as fell to his share, and take his bald-headed sons of the desert home with him alive for trophies. [5]
I persuaded him to rob you; and I and a woman helped him to desert, and got him away in safety. [5]
I should like to know if you never had the feeling, "'Oh, that the desert were my dwelling-place! [6]
Jim was thinking to himself, and at last he says: "Mars Tom, we's mos' to de end er de Desert now, I speck. [5]
And she cried to her lord, 'O my lord, O my life, From the desert I come; From the hills of the Dawn. [11]
And she cried to her lord, "O my lord, O my life, From the desert I come; From the hills of the Dawn. [11]
If they try to desert, you know what to do. [11]
I was going to desert, and get away with it all. [5]
I never meant to desert you. [11]
The first man to desert will be shot down! [9]
It was wrong to defy and desert her master, but to obey him would be deadly sin. [10]
Whatever was, was to be; and Seti had a good digestion, which is a great thing in the desert. [11]
Whereas, upon a time, the holy abbot prayed, and for answer a great stream of clear water burst forth by miracle in a desert place. [5]
The road led through the desert, and at the end of a few hours' rapid march they reached the first fort, called the Fortress of Seti. [10]
The way lay through a parched tract of rocky desert, and the further they went the more intense was that wonderful flush in the west, till day broke behind the travellers and the glory of the sunrise quenched the vividness of its glow. [10]
In two or three hours we should be in the enemy's country, and then none would venture to desert. [5]
For mark me, though the men are happy to-day, in four days they will be grumbling and trying to desert in dozens. [9]
It seemed as though the desert wind had buried all their courage and confidence in the dust it swept before it. [10]
The most of this country though Desert, yet exceeding fertil, good timber, most hils and in dales, in each valley a cristall spring. [4]
Then the storm thinned, and we see that monstrous wall go a-sailing off across the desert, awful to look at, I tell you. [5]
I had to think in the desert things I'd never thought before," was the half-abstracted answer. [11]
The next minute they were only a sailing puff of dust on the far desert. [5]
They go and they come as the feet of the doe in the desert. [11]
What right have these sophists to put themselves into a desert place, out of the reach of provisions, and then ground a right to slay deer on their own improvidence? [4]
Mr. Parr was there; I'm told--and he's never been known to desert St. John's except on the rarest occasions. [9]
Such silence is there nowhere but in the city of the dead and at night, nowhere but in the desert. [10]
From that place there is no escape--the desert is as the sea, and upon that sea there is no ghiassa to sail to a farther shore. [11]
What power was there in desert life that could make this poor camel-driver, at the end of a long day of weariness and toil and little food and drink, sing a song of content and cheerfulness? [11]
They had promised themselves all along that they would cross the Jordan where the Israelites crossed it when they entered Canaan from their long pilgrimage in the desert. [5]
Take them with thee, yonder jackals of the desert. [11]
Far over in the western vista a long line of trees, twining through an oasis flanking the city, led out to a point where the desert abruptly raised its hills of yellow sand. [11]
So clear was the sweet evening air that the irregular surface of the desert showed for a score of miles as plainly as though it were but a step away. [11]
The next morning the sun poured a wealth of radiant light upon the desert, the green water of the harbour, and the gray and yellow walls of the border fortress. [10]
Billy Bagshot told the story that night, after the Lushai dandies had carried off the wounded and the sands of the desert had taken in the dead. [11]
The Plain of the Shepherds is a desert, paved with loose stones, void of vegetation, glaring in the fierce sun. [5]
David's steamers in the river were pouring shot into the desert where the enemy lay, and Achmet's "friendlies" and the Egyptians were making good their new position. [11]
She had passed the Red Sea, and was alone in the Desert. [6]
The solitude of the Place Vendome was something oppressive; I felt, as I trod its lonely sidewalk, as if I were wandering through Tadmor in the Desert. [6]
In this desert the old man thought that his darling could not be touched by the world and its pleasures. [10]
I never wrote the note on the tile which was signed with my name; Eulaeus did it, and you took his bait and came out into the desert by night. [10]
These water-works, of the most ingenious construction, many of them invented and contrived by scientific engineers, were the weapons with which man had conquered the desert that originally surrounded this lake, forcing it into green fertility and productiveness of grain and fruit. [10]
To glance at the genuine son of the desert is to take the romance out of him forever--to behold his steed is to long in charity to strip his harness off and let him fall to pieces. [5]
Nothing grows in the flat, burning desert around it but weeds and the Dead Sea apple the poets say is beautiful to the eye, but crumbles to ashes and dust when you break it. [5]
Then he waylays the first spectre of a reason that goes flitting through the desert places of his mind, and is at once serene again and ready for conflict. [5]
There is in the far desert a place where lepers live. [11]
As far as the eye could reach, in the moonlight, there was no desert visible, but only a level waste of shining water. [5]
Orion ordered that the execution of the sentence should be postponed; he did not go back into the house, however, but had his most spirited horse saddled and rode off alone into the desert. [10]
Then we struck the east end of the Desert at last, sailing on a northeast course. [5]
White-robed warriors of the desert, with lances, bent their brows upon us as they rode away towards the endless sands, and vagabonds of Egypt begged for alms. [11]
The sand of the desert, Seti's breath and the tail of his yelek made the coat of Bashi-Bazouk like silk. [11]

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