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It was arid and gritty, mixed in with bits of flint and twigs; there was even a pistachio shell
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The old river course was nothing more than a deep and arid notch in the landside giving no shade at all but on we crunched, stumbling over tricky stones and gradually it grew less steep but with more boulders
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By mid morn, the meadow was clear arid Uncle Todd had made his final trip to Dort loaded with poles, bunting and remnants of the staging
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All other blossoms either sagged or dropped to the arid ground
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What was arid became green, green and diverse
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In this arid land? Yes
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The arid plains of a terrain void of Mako
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Hydroelectric dams have provided fresh water to arid sections of our country and have given us inexpensive electricity
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In front on the other side, stood out highlands covered with houses and trees with a background of bald, arid and barren elevations
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The arid Karas region of
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to survive in an arid and
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Rome, although far from arid, did not have the easy fertility of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley or the Nile Valley, yet created an empire that not only exceeded these, but engulfed all of Egypt and parts of Mesopotamia
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He had almost forgotten how green it had been in that riverine delta land as compared to the arid existence of his long adulthood
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To their right a much lower hill fell rapidly away, only an occasional large desert scrub bush broke the sameness of its arid expanse
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“My, what a beautiful flower you have brought to such an arid place!” remarked the old voice, very close now
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had almost forgotten how green it had been in that riverine delta land as compared to the arid
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“My, what a beautiful flower you have brought to such an arid place!” remarked the old voice,
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He next examined the chipped stones and many amongst these were found to be black arid some to have great crocks
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He looked forward to an arid fall, a cold winter, and a bleak spring
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The daytime express to Paris was a ten hour delight of charming villages, grand rivers, rolling fields, distant mountains, and forests with not an arid, desiccated square metre to be seen
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He stood alone in the endless winters of the steppes, the virgin forest of the north, the arid desert of the east, the rough plains of the west, the dangers of the south
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The Gerontikon tel s the story of Abba Moses the Ethiopian, the amazing person of God living in an arid, isolated place, who heard a
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Among the less arid stretches of desert, in the jungles, and among the mountains, lived scattered clans and tribes of primitive savages
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These were the remains of the last of the native species to give up the ghost, unable to cope with the arid conditions
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Not only did she refuse to open doors when the arid wind passed through, but she had the windows nailed shut with boards in the shape of a cross, obeying the paternal order of being buried alive
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In the small isolated room where the arid air never penetrated, nor the dust, nor the heat, both had the atavistic vision of an old man, his back to the window, wearing a hat with a brim like the wings of a crow who spoke about the world many years before they had been born
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Nancy took that time to examine the local terrain: it was arid, like much of Afghanistan, with the city of Herat and its surrounding villages to the north of the airport forming a green oasis in the middle of the brown landscape
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The ground was arid, with hardly any vegetation visible anywhere, and was quite flat, except for a mountain mass to the West and another to the South
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After about one hour and a half of flight, with Nancy estimating the distance flown to be about 300 kilometers, what looked like a large industrial complex in the middle of the arid Iranian landscape appeared ahead in the distance
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showed a bearded man walking alone in a desolated, arid area, with the camera zooming in on his serene face as the title appeared in the background
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religion arid spiritual wife (Eve)
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But suddenly, you hear a rattling noise sifting through the arid air
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All, of course, thanks to the wealth coming from under the vast, empty, and very arid, desert –
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In June, the hot, arid desert here, becomes a ‘bake-oven’
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the mountains into more arid conditions; the air was growing drier and
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The country was arid, and anyone that had ever traveled before knew not to hurry, but once in a while we’d see someone making haste
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But the more arid and rugged interior was sparsely populated, with towns like Jericho, near the small fertile delta where the Jordan River emptied into the Dead Sea, being uncommon amongst
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After Solomon’s death, the ten Hebrew tribes of the more prosperous North refused allegiance to his son Rehoboam, and the nation was split into Israel in the North with its capital at Samaria and the two tribes of Judah in the arid South, keeping their capital in Jerusalem
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' That's a dry, arid landscape where very little grows
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They were alone in the car, and so Tammas had his choice of views, all of which were hot, arid desert landscapes, large circular patches describing some form of crop or gardening, and domed habitats stretching as far as the eye could see
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Central European Standard Time,” as I said this I touched the graphic and the browns started turning green, “It will rain here for thirty days in the arid areas
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Not that it would have grown, as the soil is dry and arid since the irrigation system failed after the pumps were looted, and the new ‘war veteran’ owners know nothing about farming anyway
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The assassin expelled a plume of smoke into the arid desert heat, and climbed up into the cabin of his truck
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Surely they didn't intend to farm this arid plateau, he asserted to himself
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As they rode through the arid land and looked out over the rolling dunes that surrounded them, Severus couldn't believe that what he saw had ever been lush with vegetation, despite the fact that he had witnessed it for himself just decades previous
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Surely they didn’t intend to farm this arid plateau, he asserted to himself
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Identifying the character of OM, tat arid sat, Krishn says that these
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climate changed from hot and humid to cool and arid
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arid desert within the continental interior
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of the arid deserts of the Triassic were replaced by lush
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areas, climates were hot and arid
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In the end, as by design, the only surplus will be guns and munitions droning over state-sized arid fields of the dead, unnecessary masses
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track traverses country that becomes increasingly arid
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The city is located in an arid region and owes its existence
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Arid areas have minimal rain, while
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You said it was barren, soulless, arid, pretentious, and police-ridden; that everybody was an official, and that all the officials were rude
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The other one was more rocky; considering the weather, and the angle of the slope they had either come up or down, she seemed quite unnaturally arid
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Barnes, as rocky and apparently arid as ever--but I knew better--told her at tea-time in my presence that I had invited them to stay on as long as I did
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She may look as arid and stiff as she likes, but we have kissed each other with real affection and I have felt her arm tighten round my neck
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He prayed that some at least of his words might wing their way into the hidden, and he was sure arid, recesses of her soul
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The first sign was in his nose which became arid and itchy
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At first the community prospered and the arid
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Ahmed hoped that someday he could leave the desolate arid desert and move to a large Jordanian city
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After many weeks of travel, their horses perished, and almost dead themselves through thirst, they came upon a city on a high, arid plateau
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And soak into the arid ground
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land mass was farther south, cooler, and not so arid
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farms, the terrain turned arid, scarred by dry streambeds
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well on long distance expeditions in arid and
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millennia old, dot the now arid Iranian plains and
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Arid places without food or water persisted, so
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noticed that the landscape was no arid desert
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The sea appeared, tingling amidst the arid grounds of the
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that ends in the setting sun, beauty so far away, only the cold, arid
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Central Asia was a much easier ecosystem to destroy since it is a high plain… an arid ecosystem is very, very sensitive to the slightest imbalance
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At every howl, she glanced at me with a smile enjoying the feel of the wilderness, of nature at its most arid and inhospitable
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affection in her arid and dreary existence
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That afternoon, in the arid Sahara of my life, the spark, or was it sparkle, of two
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I was gorging because of my traumatic starvation and Monette, in any case a natural, stocking sensations for the arid times of melted clocks
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And re-created the drought-ridden devastation of the Serengeti plain: by burning the center of Australia into an arid, lifeless desert
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Used for multiplication and adding up others tokens deathsheads because the number of accumulated decapitated living things humans have decapitated cannot be represented individually anymore, they have to be represented by abstractions, abstract numbers, Arabic numerals; to count the grains of sand in the desert known as Arabia: an arid desert: created by man and his obsession with decapitating every living thing he sees and can get his hands on
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Suddenly: they did not have to burn trees to create an arid lifeless desert
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Five moons cast a sickly light on a flat, arid landscape
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scorpions aren’t naturally associated with water, but with arid sandy areas
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The arid atmosphere had mummified all three bodies to form
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Her hair caught the blue glow of the lamp, appearing to radiate a fiery silver aura as the cool, arid wind tossed it about her face and shoulders
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Badly bleeding the fallen order beast completely broke off pursuit and headed as fast as it could go towards the open mouth of the valley where the valley opened up into the arid wastelands that surrounded the Holy Mountains
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‘At last I can get arid of these filthy rags,’ he said happily as he
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And this same arid soil hath ever been
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Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation: an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone
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The open–sea plants had already left behind the increasingly arid seafloor, where a prodigious number of animals were still swarming: zoophytes, articulates, mollusks, and fish
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He knew that it was barren and without shelter; but when the sea became more calm, he resolved to plunge into its waves again, and swim to Lemaire, equally arid, but larger, and consequently better adapted for concealment
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It seemed absurd to me that I’d been hiking in that snowy range all along—that the arid mountains I’d traversed since the moment I set foot on the PCT were technically part of the Sierra Nevada
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My pack was lighter, after all, not only thanks to Albert’s purge but because I no longer needed to carry more than a couple of bottles of water at a time, now that I’d reached a less arid stretch of the trail
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Her antiquity in preceding and surviving successive tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising and setting by her appointed times, waxing and waning: the forced invariability of her aspect: her indeterminate response to inaffirmative interrogation: her potency over effluent and refluent waters: her power to enamour, to mortify, to invest with beauty, to render insane, to incite to and aid delinquency: the tranquil inscrutability of her visage: the terribility of her isolated dominant implacable resplendent propinquity: her omens of tempest and of calm: the stimulation of her light, her motion and her presence: the admonition of her craters, her arid seas, her silence: her splendour, when visible: her attraction, when invisible
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In measured tones, but with rising emotion, he began laying out a vision of the benefits that the new Grand Coulee Dam would bring to this arid land in exchange for the 175 million public dollars it would cost: 1
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It lost itself amongst the innumerable tales of conspiracies and plots against the tyrant as a stream is lost in an arid belt of sandy country before it emerges, diminished and troubled, perhaps, on the other side
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On the other hand, from the arid character of the valley, when the regular supplies from the Campo had been cut off, the population of the three villages could be starved into submission
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From under the seaward gate, across the dusty, arid plain, interspersed with low bushes, he saw, more than a mile away, the ugly enormity of the Custom House, and the two or three other buildings which at that time constituted the seaport of Sulaco
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simply arid directly to see Anna, and would receive her in