Desart

There are several districts of sandy desart in Col. There are forty-eight lochs of fresh water; but many of them are very small — meer pools. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Cato, of which that is the concluding line; the sandy desart had struck him so strongly. ❋ Unknown (2006)

O'er this desart bright Let thy moon arise While I close my eyes. '' ❋ John Perry Barlow (2005)

And thanne gon men be desart unto the Vale of Elyn; in the whiche vale be 12 welles: and there ben 72 trees of palme, that beren the dates, the whiche Moyses fond with the children of Israel. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And toward the Northe is the desart, that durethe unto Syrye: and so is the contree strong on alle sydes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She was grave and gay by turns — she moralized and methodized — she laughed, and romped, and danced, and sung, and sighed, and ogled, and lisped, and fluttered, and flattered — but all was preaching to the desart. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And from Babyloyne, where the Soudan dwellethe, to go right betwene the oryent and the Septemtryon, toward the grete Babyloyne, is 40 journeys to passen be desart. ❋ Unknown (2004)

‘Sometimes I have been in the humour of wishing to retire to a desart.’ ❋ Unknown (2004)

Thus this unfortunate Lady, having found some company in this solitary desart, fed on herbes and roots, drinking faire running water, and weeping silently to her selfe, so often as she remembred her husband, children, and former dayes past in much better manner. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Within those walls, I have said, she reposes; they enclose my world, all without is to me a desart. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And it is drye and nothing fructuous; because that it hathe no moysture: and therefore is there so meche desart. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We left none to represent us, none to repeople the desart land, and the name of ❋ Unknown (2003)

Like to our first parents, the whole earth is before him, a wide desart. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I roused myself — I cast off my waking dreams; and I, who just now could almost hear the shouts of the Roman throng, and was hustled by countless multitudes, now beheld the desart ruins of Rome sleeping under its own blue sky; the shadows lay tranquilly on the ground; sheep were grazing untended on the Palatine, and a buffalo stalked down the Sacred Way that led to the Capitol. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But all at close of day, with riven planks and rent canvas make for shore, and are either wrecked ere they reach it, or find some wave-beaten haven, some desart strand, whereon to cast themselves and die unmourned. ❋ Unknown (2003)

If I lift up my eyes and see the desart earth, and feel that those dear eyes have spent their mortal lustre, and that those beauteous lips are silent, their “crimson leaves” faded, for ever I am mute! ❋ Unknown (2003)