Oases

However, in reality many of these experiences tend to be rather cushy programs, such as many of those in Western Europe, where universities house their students in American oases, where they have scarcely more contact with the "natives" than a tourist would. ❋ Unknown (2011)

In what might be called the oases of the deep, life takes on a very different appearance. ❋ Flannery, Tim (2007)

The meeting of more than two lines at the oases is a phenomenon possibly of the same nature and also requiring explanation. ❋ John Joly (1895)

Taking a natural view of the country, it is barren, sandy, and mountainous, interspersed with a few green spots, called oases, or made fertile by the inundation of some river in the rainy season. ❋ Selim Aga (1846)

Makouran, whose merchandise they were escorting on its way to Timbuctoo, begged me to write a letter to the Sheikh of Ain-Salah, one of the oases, which is in direct commercial relations with Ghadames. ❋ James Richardson (1828)

+ [PII] + [geneaology] + 'oases': a multiplix definition of 'oasis'. ❋ Admin (2009)

Diversity "focal points/hot spots" [12] and "oases" [13] enrich landscapes by possessing a larger number of species, including those of more southerly distribution. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She landscaped a photographer's studio in Venice with contrasting rectangles of arid crushed granite, representing desert, and "oases" sprouting California pepper trees and native lavender. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They cannot build cities on the sand of the desert, and the small patches of pasture and palm groves, kept fresh and green by solitary springs and called "oases," are too far apart, too distant from permanently peopled regions to admit of comfortable settlement. ❋ Unknown (1879)

There were a few islets in the sand, a kind of oases of mud and clay, in laminae no thicker than paper, and these were at once denizened by various weeds. ❋ Unknown (1864)

As a result, its infrastructure has become dilapidated, depreciation of equipment has reached a critical point, and standards of living are inadmissibly low - with the exception of a few "oases" prospering on hydrocarbon revenues. ❋ Unknown (2008)

"oases," with Lake Tchad and Timbuctoo on its southern border, and a very indefinite line marked Algiers and Morocco. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

When the water ran out, the soldiers were totally dependent on whatever oases they could find in the desert, though these were few and far between. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

But soon they found a series of small oases scattered among the sand dunes. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

He pushed his men over twenty miles a day past parched hills and scattered oases in an attempt to reach the doorstep of Darius before the Persian king could flee. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Bahariya was the main stop on the trade route between Siwa and the Nile, but it was also an important commercial center for a string of oases stretching like a great arch through the western desert. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Four fountains and pools with surrounding vegetation bracket the center square of headstones and serve as oases against the hot climate in summer. ❋ Magda Abu-Fadil (2012)

All around the oases were rich deposits of salt, highly valued by the priests of Egypt for religious rituals. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Stretching fifty miles across the Sahara in a verdant valley just below sea level, Siwa was actually a series of oases and villages. ❋ Philip Freeman (2011)

Damn, you got [bored] with her after a [month] and now you [want] her back? You're such an oase. ❋ Charleunmagme (2021)