While at Halfa I made many sketches in oil for my picture, "A Desert Grave," out in the desert across the river.
I was much pleased with the seaside desert and the effects of mirage over Aboukir Bay.
The big charger and the grey Syrian pony had now a black donkey alongside for the desert rides, which were the chief pleasure of our life out there.
The incongruities of Alexandria became to me positively enjoyable; and the desert air, as ever, was life-giving.
Richard Preston, whose book, "The Desert Mounted Corps," is a masterpiece.
It is very trying painting in the desert on account of the wind, which blows the sand perpetually into your eyes.
Many a camel had I stalked about the Ramleh desert to watch its mannerisms in movement.
Many days had not elapsed after this event, when one morning Mazin and the sisters sitting together in a gallery of the palace, observed a thick cloud of dust rising from the desert and approaching towards them.
When a very young man I was deeply in love with a beautiful Arab maiden, adorned by every elegance and grace, who resided with her parents; and I used frequently to visit their camp, for her family was one of the desert tribes.
In the course of the sport, passing over a desert plain, he came to a spot where was the opening of a cave, into which he entered, and observed domestic utensils and other marks of its being inhabited; but no one was then within it.
Then he went back to Ireland, and started another monastery in a desert island in Loch Oisbsen, which was given to him by Aedh, the son of Ethdach.
And this I ask not for andesert of my worthiness, but in respect of Thy mercy.
Rapture And awe possessed him: and at once The silent desert of his spirit Rang suddenly with joyful tones; And once again the sacred grandeur Of Love and Good and Beauty shone Within his soul.
He is always musing over his former days in Heaven, and vainly seeking some relief in the desert of time and space into which he is cast out alone; he is the embodiment of the idea of loneliness in a proud soul.
Not even the relief of desert warfare had broken the cruel monotony of desertmarches and life in desert stations--stations consisting of red-hot barracks, and the inevitable filthy and sordid Village Negre.
Here was that for which he had been so long and so drastically trained--desert warfare.
He does not carry his overcoat--he wears it, and is perhaps unique in considering a heavy overcoat to be correct desert wear.
It is better that I take the girl away and help her brother to desert with her, than let Rivoli wreck your life, break your heart, and doubly regain the bully's prestige and power to make weaker comrades' lives a misery and a burden.
If you can get to Carmelita's unseen, and change back into a girl, you could either hide with Carmelita for a time, or simply desert in feminine apparel.
Don't forget that life here in Sidi is a great deal better than life in a desert station in the South.
To him and to the Bucking Bronco (who daily swore that he would desert that night, and tramp to Sidi-bel-Abbes to see Carmelita) John Bull proved a friend in need.
Then, again, thousands of soldiers commit some heinous military 'crime' and desert to the Foreign Legion to start afresh.
If Carmelita turns us down, let's all three desertand take the girl with us," said Rupert to John Bull.
It had been terrible, unspeakably terrible, to feel that resolution was weakening, and that when it failed altogether, he would desert and go in search of her.
He asserted that the sauba-ants are very much attached to the snake, and that, if we took it away, they would all desert the spot.
Ellen tried her utmost to persuade our host to accompany us; but he declined, saying that he could not abandon his present mode of life, and would not desert his patient Maono till he had recovered.
A young giraffe like him, dropped this spring in the Sarah desert under a cocoanut shy.
Make him see what an abominable crime it would be for him to desert our poor little girl.
Sailors are generally superstitious, and those of my friend's vessel became unwilling to remain on board the ship; and it was probable they might desert rather then return to England with the ghost for a passenger.
If it is to throw me headlong upon a desert island; if it is to place me on the summit of a dizzy cliff--his power is the same.
Thus, gradually, the country people all forsook their homes, and fled to Jerusalem for refuge and, when the country was left a desert and no more plunder was to be gained, these robber bands gradually entered Jerusalem.
I know the war of the desert yet better than they.
They spurned the sand from behind them; they seemed to devour the desert before them; miles flew away with minutes--and yet their strength seemed unabated, and their respiration as free as when they first started upon the wonderful race.
Knightlike will we prove it, on foot or on horse, in the desert or in the field, time, place, and arms all at his own choice.
If the Benigner Power can yield A fountain in the desert field, Where weary pilgrims drink; Thine are the waves that lash the rock, Thine the tornado's deadly shock, Where countless navies sink!
The station called the Diamond of the Desert was assigned for the place of conflict, as being nearly at an equal distance betwixt the Christian and Saracen camps.
But what do you in the desert with an animal which sinks over the fetlock at every step as if he would plant each foot deep as the root of a date-tree?
It had been agreed, on account of the heat of the climate, that the judicial combat which was the cause of the present assemblage of various nations at the Diamond of the Desert should take place at one hour after sunrise.
Thine own will may guide thine own motions," said the Emir, "as freely as the wind which moveth the dust of the desert in what direction it chooseth.
Mr. Pillsbury had been most anxious for the past year to be released from his editorial duties, and had remained only because he could not bear to desert the paper in its distress.
The sirocco of thedesert blows no hotter or more tainting breath in the face of the traveller, than does this woman against all men who do not believe as she does, and no pestilence makes sadder havoc among them than would Susan B.
Can you imagine a more delightful oasis in this desert of filth and pollution?
But do not think that I have deserted Pliny, or can desert him.
Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flies, 45 And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
This is the exact account of a caravan which Karl Hagenbeck told me he brought across the desert in the year 1870.
I will ask my readers to picture for themselves an African desertblazing beneath a burning sun.
The caravan is on its way through the desert to Suakim, which is the first shipping place for Europe.
When the Gauls came again, in the year 367, Camillus was called upon to help his countrymen for the last time, and though he was some fourscore years of age, he did not hesitate, nor did victory desert him.
The working-farmer settling in the desert felt that for every pound's worth of improvements made by muscle and money he would have to account to the tax-collector at the next assessment.
In a few minutes it passes from an Alpine desert to the richness of the tropics.
In these civilised regions the wildest rocks are rarely desert places.
When, in the exploration of the desert of water which we call the ocean, we come upon the unknown world of the sea, all is uncouth and shapeless.
Their wide wings need the breadth of the ocean gulf; the spaciousness of desert solitudes.
Mrs. Douce's dusty face hardened and dried till it became a very desert of physiognomy.
Go and see her," urged his landlady, gently, though still with something of the desert atmosphere in her voice.
Poor Robin Crusoe--what a colossal liar was wasted on a desert island!
Meade must have been a poor doctor if De Foe's accuracy of description of the symptoms and effects of disease is not vastly superior to the detail he supplies as a sailor and solitaire upon a desert island.
The splendid air blowing straight from the free north and from the Kalahari Desert on the west worked wonders in the way of restoring us to health, and I began to talk of moving back to my old quarters.
During the latter part of this tedious time Colonel Plumer and his gallant men were but thirty miles away, having encompassed a vast stretch of dreary desert from distant Bulawayo.
The hotel manager said if they did not invent these lies and cook the real account the burghers would desert en masse.
I really think that no one except a shipwrecked mariner, cast away on a desert island, and suddenly perceiving a friendly sail, could have followed our feelings of delight on that occasion.
When they desert they believe they can get back to their own country by going round the sea, and may live in the woods upon the fruits, which they imagine are as common every where as with them.
The men, ashamed to desert their companion, who was related to one of them, yielded to her entreaties and remained, hoping that the storm would be a sufficient excuse for the delay.
