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1. "I think they could have died in the desert already," Ava said
2. The land was almost desert in the area they traversed by late Afternoonday
3. Her return from Sinbara had convinced her that she was a city girl, what was she doing out in this desert at the onset of dark? Sinbara was an urban wonderland compared to this
4. Then she had another gruesome thought, even though this was nearly desert, there could very well be carnivores out here, and she didn't even have a dinner knife on her for self defense
5. Today those lagoons are miles into the desert, but even now the Gengee is not quite the same as the Highlands and a lot of that was the presence of a significant population of Trolls
6. The area is high desert terrain, barren hills and sandy, rocky soil
7. ramshackle collection of maybe 100 tin shacks clustered in the desert between a pocket of towering rock mountains
8. It was an aching desert, the gravel was a dirty brown, the noon breeze was still stifling
9. The wind was strong enough to whip fine sand up high enough to choke them, but not enough to hide the high clouds that would roll on beyond this desert to the hills beyond the lake
10. the Nafud desert with a load of
11. That last camp was well beyond the farthest doostEr had ever been, he wasn't prepared for what was just about pure desert
12. The history here made what had happened back at Sol seem like a few tribes in the desert
13. They cut off the main highway onto a side road in the desert
14. Bolt is in the back of the pickup as it bounces along in the desert
15. AN OLD MILITARY TRUCK - DESERT - ABOUT THE SAME TIME
16. The sunset was just blazing over the desert outside
17. His personification was in pinstriped robe and a large turban with a waist-length white beard, waist-length gray hair and a face carved by a century of deep desert wind and sun
18. They were placed on a desert planet, each one alone and three thousand miles from one another
19. If he could find a way to cross three thousand miles of bone dry desert, he might find company
20. He knew an eternity on that desert would not leave him sane
21. I can read the story about the desert boy by myself now
22. Klowee must remember the desert and took to heart a children's adventure of survival there
23. "Don't read that too much, there are very few people who have to stay in the desert
24. The temple was in a desert, and in the
25. In the distance they heard desert wolves
26. Then he ran into the desert toward the oasis
27. the Goddess were tracked back to the forest in the desert by other hunters
28. would wait while Son journeyed on to the forest in the desert to find the pool
29. "This ain't the desert any more," Nlara told him, "But it ain't Zhlindu
30. desert that led to the forest
31. Half of the men made it through the desert and into the forest that held
32. collapsed in the desert sand
33. in the desert that Son faced his innermost fears and became fearless
34. In order to get the water, Herod rebuilt the desert so that water would channel from Jerusalem (17 miles away) through the mountains and to his palace
35. The storm stayed out in the desert, but the temperature kept dropping
36. of a million stars on a clear night in the desert
37. She wasn't being sensitive enough to that, she was still treating him like a kid from the desert rim on an RNAcid trip
38. She was in Zhlindu when it became part of the mainland, connected by a bridge to a road that could take you dry all the way to desert
39. There was a storm crossing the desert, huge streaks of lightening raced across the night sky providing her with her own private show
40. Haven’t you ever dreamed about riding a dragon across the desert at night? Feeling the wind blowing across your skin and thru your hair, knowing the dragon you are riding as one knows an old friend
41. They braved a decade of cantankerous lock operators and a five year delay in a smelly old desert city in Goblin country when a drought dried up a canal for awhile
42. "He said he was from the desert originally, he acts like it, like he's from some fundamentalist splinter hermits
43. "Will he desert the ship?"
44. It appeared that mother was winning and the bright lights of the Nevada desert would soon be graced by two new high rollers with money to burn
45. True the other people or ghosts from YingolNeerie chasing them into the wilderness had been a real bother, but Alan himself was still just a human kid, no different than he would have been if he really was raised by fundamentalist hermits on the desert rim
46. When you’ve lived in the desert, surviving from oasis to oasis and never knowing quite when the next one is going to be found, living in a land of milk and honey is somehow surreal
47. 26Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold,
48. He considered her cooking and the desert later
49. The Kassikan went deeper than that however, since part of it was built over North Canyon, the canyon that had once drained the whole lake bed down to desert
50. ” He had no idea where or what that was, and hoped it wasn’t the name of the desert
1. As I stood waiting on a deserted platform, a gang of youths appeared
2. "Well yeah, you have to find a deserted beach all to yourself if you want to bathe with clothes on anywhere I've been on this planet so far
3. The moon was full, casting some light onto the deserted city street
4. As the trucks top a rise on the mostly deserted road, a military checkpoint comes into view
5. He was the only runner out and Main Street was deserted except for two forlorn and anxious looking individuals standing outside the offices of the local bank
6. Just leave me in this deserted beach
7. "I can hardly call it my religion any more," Alan said, "I've been with Kaha, been wasted on yaag, I've deserted my post, I've lived with you out of wedlock, I've missed service many times in a row now
8. The lanterns are very effective and we make a good speed, pounding along the deserted tracks
9. “They have deserted Jodechi” said Pottypears
10. The graveyard had been deserted – Wiesse had not advertised the fact my mother was back on Errd, let alone that she had died here
11. It was deserted, which was just as well since Sophia had more than its fair share of ear-wiggers during the festival
12. them isolation are the nightmares composed by media: deserted island
13. The only light is the moonlight from the full moon shining in through my window; the road is deserted
14. almost deserted, since most of the troops had already been shipped
15. almost deserted at this early hour, and looked approvingly up and
16. little else moved on the deserted road
17. A silver Ford Mondeo pulls in to the deserted weekend car park of the Traveller's Inn at Roundswell services
18. And that dark harbor too, maybe not AS bad, but it is a deserted and derelict place that she drew, I’m afraid she was feeling that inside
19. “Not one from twenty decades ago, not the one from the week Enjteen deserted you and scared your soul
20. The inside of the house was deserted
21. As the morning wore on with no sign of the errant man, even Chrissie had to admit that Kev had deserted them
22. The crossing was nearly deserted
23. and their wards, but luck had deserted him
24. The market appeared nearly deserted, with
25. Again, it seemed close to deserted, with just a lone
26. Five minutes later, he turned into a lane which led to an ancient earthworks, a dead end, completely deserted at this time of night
27. The main road was almost deserted as the three men
28. Only ten minutes had passed and the school was deserted by
29. "Hey, what‘s one thing you‘d bring with you to a deserted island?" Julia asked
30. Eventually it got to be what could be called Dawnsleep, and the center of town got pretty deserted
31. One evening, after the throngs had again deserted the
32. Zermatt was deserted in the early, pre-season
33. the deserted streets able to point her in the direction of
34. ‘It seems that the Lord has utterly deserted me,
35. So far he had been correct and the first small village that they had come to, Moat Wood, although half deserted, had provided fair pickings
36. Strange to say very little of the latter could actually be seen, a few eagles and hawks overhead mainly following the uplift at the rampart edge, no rabits appeared in the grass clumps, the landscape seemed totally deserted
37. the deserted road was that he was alone and vulnerable
38. But this appeared to be a deserted coast
39. gives him the appearance of a former town, deserted
40. deserted now that the heat of day was rising, except for dogs that bared their teeth
41. The towns were deserted, and the country was left uncultivated; and the western provinces of Europe, which had enjoyed a considerable degree of opulence under the Roman empire, sunk into the lowest state of poverty and barbarism
42. She told herself that it could be forgiven because they’d have to live together on this deserted isle for the remainder of their lives
43. friends had deserted Homer years ago
44. deserted my father, they would have, too
45. For a moment his consciousness had continued within the separate flying chunks and then it too deserted
46. Despite the fences, the cameras and the odd passing army truck, the place seemed quite empty, deserted even
47. The town looked deserted
48. Most of them were deserted
49. His surroundings morphed to the deserted bridge of the Elysian
50. The pool area was deserted now, only the sound of
1. "I'm not talking about the damage to this device, I'm talking about leaving me, your mother, and deserting all of us to run off with this child
2. A year after you left he found where I lived and I got to chew him out about deserting me again
3. Earth has become a sort of enemy, a deserting parent
4. “Cpl Lamb you are being charged with cowardice in the face of the enemy and deserting your post in time of war you will be summarily Court Marshalled
5. he is charged with deserting his post in time of war and cowardice in the face of the enemy
6. Some were deserting back to the ships and an unknown foe of unknown strength was approaching
7. Broshee shivered, reluctant to move, her courage deserting her now that it was time to leave
8. I was still mad at you for deserting mom
9. Our command structure would have remained completely intact, except for the fact that our dragons are deserting us
10. In other states, however, parents are only punished for deserting a child with the intention to abandon
11. "Why are my soldiers deserting, Conan?" she asked
12. It was after this sermon in the synagogue that Judas Iscariot entertained his first conscious thought of deserting
13. 8 This supper, with its tender episodes and softening touches, was Jesus' last appeal to the deserting Judas, but it was of no avail
14. One nautical myth suggests that in order to keep sailors in the British Navy from deserting, they were kept onboard while in port
15. deserting him in his hour of need June handed in her required four weeks notice
16. The scurrying sounds above took on a desperate quality, as though sensing her intentions of deserting this dark tube
17. They had then gone on all sorts of adventures together, vanished into a time-tunnel in an exploding mountain, and he had been regurgitated back into the Forest (where his brother had given him a real bollocking for deserting his post)
18. betrayed by her deserting him, and his stock response to such feelings was
19. Guardians deserting the useless gun batteries were forming into platoons and firing at the Warrior ships
20. She had come to terms with the shallow reasons for her deserting her church and had been welcomed back into the fold
21. Deserting the die-hard Musalmans of Medina at that stage would have amounted to jeopardizing the future of Islam which he so painstakingly nurtured
22. looking on as my dad starved me in that cupboard, my dad beating me with sticks and hose pipes, and then my brother deserting me
23. And it would be the same with me, I silently vowed as Annie made her apologies for deserting me
24. Therefore it was decided to carry out the punishment on just one-tenth of them as a lesson to the others in the hope that it would deter them from deserting, but it was no use
25. Perhaps Trevain was worth deserting her pride
26. What a brain, thought Miss Entwhistle, disgusted, sitting up very straight in the wickerwork chair, her hands folded in her lap, her eyes shut; what a contemptible, anæmic brain, deserting her like this, only able to throw up to the surface when stirred, out of all the store of splendid stuff put so assiduously into it during years and years of life, couplets
27. " And even as he said it, he felt a pang of guilt because he was deserting Kate
28. Deserts are areas which our ancestors created and then abandoned, deserting them
29. "What the devil?" he cried suddenly and in impatience deserting his sentry duty, he, too, went down, hurrying and thumping with his heavy boots on the stairs
30. Thus setting out, our new-fledged adventurer paced along, talking to himself and saying, "Who knows but that in time to come, when the veracious history of my famous deeds is made known, the sage who writes it, when he has to set forth my first sally in the early morning, will do it after this fashion? 'Scarce had the rubicund Apollo spread o'er the face of the broad spacious earth the golden threads of his bright hair, scarce had the little birds of painted plumage attuned their notes to hail with dulcet and mellifluous harmony the coming of the rosy Dawn, that, deserting the soft couch of her jealous spouse, was appearing to mortals at the gates and balconies of the Manchegan horizon, when the renowned knight Don Quixote of La Mancha, quitting the lazy down, mounted his celebrated steed Rocinante and began to traverse the ancient and famous Campo de Montiel;'" which in fact he was actually traversing
31. He knew not what to think, or say, or do, and his reason seemed to be deserting him little by little
32. Do not by deserting me let my shame become the talk of the gossips in the streets; make not the old age of my parents miserable; for the loyal services they as faithful vassals have ever rendered thine are not deserving of such a return; and if thou thinkest it will debase thy blood to mingle it with mine, reflect that there is little or no nobility in the world that has not travelled the same road, and that in illustrious lineages it is not the woman's blood that is of account; and, moreover, that true nobility consists in virtue, and if thou art wanting in that, refusing me what in justice thou owest me, then even I have higher claims to nobility than thine
33. Don Quixote bade him not be uneasy about deserting the animals, "for he who would carry themselves over such longinquous roads and regions would take care to feed them
34. Sancho, deserting Dapple, hung on to the duchess and entered the castle, but feeling some twinges of conscience at having left the ass alone, he approached a respectable duenna who had come out with the rest to receive the duchess, and in a low voice he said to her, "Senora Gonzalez, or however your grace may be called-"
35. Sancho alone, deserting Dapple at the sight of the mighty beast, took to his heels as hard as he could and strove in vain to mount a tall oak
36. The possibility of perishing in our reckless undertaking was the least of my worries; my heart was pounding at the thought that our plans might be discovered before we had left the Nautilus, at the thought of being hauled in front of Captain Nemo and finding him angered, or worse, saddened by my deserting him
37. I then related the evening's incidents to the Canadian, secretly hoping he would come around to the idea of not deserting the captain; but my narrative had no result other than Ned's voicing deep regret that he hadn't strolled across the Vigo battlefield on his own behalf
38. "Lady," said Gamut, who, helpless and useless as he was, had not yet dreamed of deserting his trust, "it is the jubilee of the devils, and this is not a meet place for Christians to tarry in
39. The Hurons staggered, deserting the center of their line, and Uncas issued from the forest through the opening they left, at the head of a hundred warriors
40. If they run into Americans, he will say he is deserting
41. How did he justify deserting his post at the priory and running away to St-John-in-the-Forest? The monastery had been in danger of extinction, and the only way to save it had been to flee, in accordance with the saying: “Leave early, go far and stay long
42. But outnumbering these by far were men who, though were the ones who had waited three years in vain for furloughs and while they waited carried on company rolls as deserters, had no intention of deserting permanently
43. "But now, now, what am I glad of?" he thought, "Is that hiding things? My reason's deserting me—simply!"
44. It shows that officers are deserting while the troops are still holding their positions
45. Several drivers and other passengers were deserting their vehicles, leaving them on the street
46. That is deserting one's family
47. “Who was he, then, and what was his object in deserting Miss Sutherland?”
48. The little girls jumped or tumbled out of theirs; the older ones wasted no time in deserting theirs
49. ‘What the devil?’ he cried suddenly and in impatience deserting his sentry duty, he, too, went down, hurrying and thumping with his heavy boots on the stairs
50. , the gentleman who was so suddenly deserting us
1. All my confident poise deserts me and I feel an absurd urge to burst into tears – shit! Some of this must have shown in my face, for the next thing I know is that Karen is reaching across the table
2. With forests in the north and deserts in the south, it stretches from Russia’s Siberia to the deserts of China and the Caspian sea
3. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves
4. People were wandering dazed in the deserts, children dying of thirst
5. The inhabitants of the inhospitable deserts of Arabia, the other great nation of shepherds, have never been united but once, under Mahomet and his immediate successors
6. That same arm that helped Joseph and me over mountains and through deserts
7. A: -- Since conditions on Earth would be such that plant growth would be favoured at any location on the Earth, including the polar regions, (where Mammoths today are uncovered, frozen with tropical plant material in their mouths, as if they were frozen in an instant under the present day ice layers) deserts would not exist anywhere on the planet
8. A SAP Casspir in the deserts of South West Africa
9. “What sustains a couple through ice-enshrined winters and through sultry summers, through the parched deserts and the stormy seas, is an absolute trust in each other, and a friendship which backs each other up without question
10. A SAP Casspir in the deserts of South West Africa 1989
11. Lo, the deserts burn with hatred!
12. I guess it’s better than that A-hole Croc Hunter, going barefoot in the thorn and snake-infested, burning deserts of Australia
13. The inability to “till the soil” could be seen as an explanation for the deserts where and when they appeared in the lands of the world
14. ) Might that disturbance have extended into the deserts of the Middle East?
15. It has taken less than 300 years for this entity to “Gain the Whole World,” but now we are face-to-face with those “Arab raiders” from out of the deserts of the Middle East, but time seems to be running much faster
16. deserts and steep mountains, facing extremes of weather wearing
17. Then in AD 625 (the early seventh century), it happened! A hurricane of despoilment and destruction swept in from the deserts of Arabia
18. It was filled with beautiful, haunting paintings of the area, deserts, and the river
19. The Egyptian deserts were -over forty million years ago- part of the seabed of the Tethys Sea that surrounded the supercontinent Pangaea
20. 21 And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the
21. they, Where is the Lord that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and
22. 7 We wearied ourselves in the way of wickedness and destruction: yes, we have gone through deserts, where there lay no way, but as
23. 10 They would after that carry him and bury him under some of the shrubs in the deserts; so they did all the days to any one who came to them and died in their land
24. 21 And Ishmael dwelt in deserts and in tents, traveling and resting for a long time, and he did not see the face of his father
25. 30 And there was a day that he brought them to one of the deserts on the sea shore, opposite the wilderness of the people, and while he was feeding them, note a very heavy storm came from the other side of the sea and rested on the asses that were feeding there, and they all stood still
26. 21 And Ishmael dwelt in deserts and in tents traveling and resting for a long time and he did not see the face of his father
27. 30 And there was a day that he brought them to one of the deserts on the sea shore opposite the wilderness of the people and while he was feeding them note a very heavy storm came from the other side of the sea and rested on the asses that were feeding there and they all stood still
28. Some fell in the sea and were lost forever, some fell in the mountains or the rivers, some fell on the plains, in the deserts or the woods
29. The tears shed followed the fragments of the notes, drawn to them by their mystery and magic, and fell likewise into the sea, the mountains, the rivers, the plains, the deserts and the woods
30. Deserts give way to new seas
31. Throughout the night, Moshe’s dreams had led him through the deserts and swamps of the uncertainty that he refused to reveal to others
32. 15 But you shall groan according to your deserts for having killed without cause the champions of virtue
33. Most of it is undesirable and unwanted land in its natural state, deserts and mountains and swamps and whatnot
34. Throughout the night, Moshe's dreams had led him through the deserts and swamps of the
35. Why do you think designs have appeared in your crops and not in other places such as deserts, or forests, or even in the oceans?”
36. That is why they have been seen emerging from the oceans, in the arctic areas, in the mountains, and in the deserts
37. ice clings to their tops, barren deserts that stretch out for
38. Add to that government neglect, the unique brazenness of some illegal aliens’ families who could dare to bring a lawsuit against the Government of the United States for the deaths of their family members who died by unlawfully crossing over the unprotected borders into our deserts, and one beholds an arrogance of thinking that defies reason
39. Roberts spent five years exploring the deserts of Saudi Arabia followed by three years as a teenager in Tehran, Iran until the fall of the Shah forced the evacuation of all American expatriates
40. Our lives are true deserts
41. sand miles out in space High above India, he could see the arabian deserts
42. Oregon, the state that contains volcanic mountains, deserts, and the coast of the
43. We knew in Nevada we would have to face deserts, probably road blocks from the
44. to irrigate the deserts of the west where we could have grown enough produce to abolish
45. covered with rivers, hil s, and deserts
46. -No, I have never heard about that place! I come from the Orient, of the lower deserts of Sudan, where the temples shine under the Persian Sultans' powerful sun, where sorcerers and magicians live in the same regions than men, where camels are so big like mountains
47. My contact with the magic came from the East, in the person of Batam-Al-Bur, a Genie originated from the deserts of Persia, that has been in my service for the last two days and who has taught me everything I know about magic
48. This place could not be altered by Blue Lite according to the experts and so far it served as the state of things, stratified and strictly regimented, guards have been employed to keep the layers in order at all hours around the deserts only watering hole
49. If I had my way I’d build a hut somewhere in the desert, but Larin doesn’t have any deserts
50. their deserts; that wheresoever a man was born, it was his duty to carry on the