From the vicinity of the type locality on the aridcoastal plain of the lowlands of central Veracruz.
His populous cities are in arid lands where for three hundred days each year they have their place in the sun.
Prairie dogs in common with many species of plants and animals of the arid districts require and use but little water.
In thearid southern region, also, there was no railway until 1885, when the Oregon Short Line was begun.
It was a place shunned as a rule, and the country all around it was so arid and desolate that there were no residents near it.
This vast inter-mountain country was the haunt of the trapper and the hunter, to whom the possibilities and resources of the arid west were not even a dream.
The floods destroy the young crops and the drought changes the fertile earth into arid dust.
He ordered the former to be conducted to Bangkok by an escort of "Tattoed Arms" who are the bailiffs arid minions of the law.
They changed these happy and populous lands into arid deserts and gloried in the spoliation of what might have been preserved.
And everywhere, on every side, the arid cliffs close in.
This arid country consists of rolling sandy plains as broad as seas, dotted with gray sage-brush and relieved by bare craggy monadnocks and naked ranges which the rising and the setting sun paints unbelievable colors.
The rocky wall above, alternately hot and cold, as happens in high arid lands, detached curved, flattened plates.
These vast arid bottomlands of prehistoric Lake Bonneville, girded by mountain groups and ranges as arid as the sands from which they lift their tawny sides, provoke suggestive questions of the past.
The forested mesas, so different from the arid cliffs farther south and west, possessed constant moisture and fertile soil.
The dreamy, timid man was overwhelmed with bitterarid desperate thoughts.
His back was bent from the continual reading of books, arid his hand shook with excitement caused by the perpetual state of emotion in which his mind was kept; his body was thin from spiritual torments and physical mortifications.
Arid when I come to think of it, it seems to me a rash, useless act, as it will not prevent the melamed from destroying the poor children's health and intelligence.
Looking out across the hot, smoky, arid desert he saw again that scene where he had appealed to Allison Lee.
Beyond Medicine Bow the grass and the green failed and the immense train of freight-cars and passenger-coaches, loaded to capacity, clattered on into arid country.
This substance is found in nature in arid regions in a number of places, where it has been formed apparently by the decay of organic substances in the presence of air and sodium salts.
It is found in some arid countries, as southern California and Tibet, but is now made commercially from the mineral colemanite, which is the calcium salt of a complex boric acid.
His skepticism announced the dissolution of this theologico-metaphysical world, and inaugurated the reign of the arid True, of the Real.
Upon the arid ways of faithless lands I am tormented by a tender dream Of that sweet rill which runs before my cot.
In the syllogistic system he found only subtlety and arid ingenuity.
It would, no doubt, have been difficult for Erasmus to find in the arid traditionalism which prevailed in the University of Paris the heyday of scholastic philosophy and theology.
In summer, in an arid or desert region of the Southwest, athletic summer underwear will be found entirely satisfactory.
Two or three dozen lemons should also be provided, particularly in summer, and in more or less arid regions.
In the more arid regions of the West one rarely finds it necessary to pitch a tent, though it is handy to have one along and well worth carrying, particularly should it be desired to remain more than one night at any point.
In traveling in an arid region canteens are a necessity.
No wonder Mrs Cork's eyes were arid and her tongue bitter!
She knew of more alluring occupations than listening to that lady's arid remarks.
Nothing can be more beautiful than the appearance of one of these Missions, to the traveler who has lately passed the arid and barren wilderness of the North-West.
The shore betwixt Cape Pasley and Cape Arid is low and sandy, and falls back in a large bight, nearly similar to what is formed on the west side of Cape Arid.
As if, forsooth, It were their prime of evils in great death To parch, poor tongues, with thirst and arid drought, Or chafe for any lack.
Materially the chapel had nothing in common with a vineyard; it was built upon arid land as bare and barren as a rock; not even a blade of grass grew within a hundred yards of its doors.
He wondered now, casually, why the daughter should entertain sentiments of gratitude that never seemed to find a place in the arid bosom of her sire.
There a certain knight named Arnoldin, cousin of Athulf, met them, and told them that Fikenhild had just wedded Rimenhild, arid the wedding-feast was now beginning.
