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Example sentences for "desert country"

  • Kanem is mostly a desert country, and has now only a few inhabitants.

  • When the kindly rains released him, he was turned back and constantly back by a strip of desert country, that seemed to dog him whichever way he turned.

  • Warburton got into a strip of desert country, but apparently was too much occupied with pressing straight through to devote any time to examine any country beyond his track.

  • By care and slow travelling, we reached the depot safely in the afternoon, having crossed in going and returning, upwards of 100 miles of desert country, during the last three days, in which the horses had got nothing either to eat or drink.

  • One of his armies is defeated by Peter the Great: he loses his supply of provisions and ammunition: advances forward through a desert country: his adventures in the Ukraine.

  • He continued his march through a desert country, where he met with nothing but burned or ruined villages.

  • On gaining the level interior, the Murray passes through a desert country to the 140 degrees meridian, when it enters the great fossil formation, of which I shall have to speak hereafter.

  • In this area, however, a great portion of desert country is included, or such, at least, as at the present moment is considered so.

  • They passed through almost a desert country, the Tartars having driven away nearly all the inhabitants.

  • After crossing the river, the road lies through a desert country on the borders of Babylonia to Scenæ, a considerable city, situated on the banks of a canal.

  • Thence he marched through a desert country, and came to Chaalla a village, and then to another called Malothas, situated on a river.

  • His road then lay through a desert country, which had only a few watering-places, as far as Egra[785] a village.

  • In the Chisos as elsewhere in desert country, what lives where depends on highly local conditions of soil and climate.

  • The camel’s aptness illustrates that you are traveling desert country.

  • Carry drinking water with you whenever you are in desert country.

  • Also Lake Cayman in New Biscay, in a desert country, called the Bolson de Mapimi, not so large as that of Chapala; and lake Pascuaro near Valladolid.

  • A tract of desert country to the west, called the Bolson de Mapimi, is inhabited by the Acoclames, the Cocoyames, the Apaches Mezcleros, and Apaches Fardones.

  • After the few villages near the mouth we came to a desert country, covered with impenetrable forest and jungle.

  • There are no opportunities for conflict in a desert country.


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