Who knows whether the loving game is played, When, once of mortal [vesture] disarrayed, The naked soul goes wandering here and there 80 Through the wide deserts of Elysian air?
And for I play'd my part with Lady Love, While each did strive for chief authority, Your good deserts Dame Fortune so doth move To give these signs of liberality.
Next to deserts and snowy mountains, swamps are the greatest barriers to the movements of man.
The whole of its surface is fit for human uses; there are neither deserts of sand nor of snow.
And a strange rumor told of the march of multitudes from unknown parts into the remote deserts of Arabia.
The Essenes arose about two centuries before the birth of Christ, and peopled the quiet deserts on the west of the Dead Sea, a wilderness to which the Christian monks afterwards seceded from the cities of Palestine.
The sufferings of the Jews, driven into deserts and remote hiding-places in the mountains, are described in the first book of the Maccabees.
True, our depots in the Arabian and Sahara deserts were unthreatened by either the Grass or the horde, but I should have found it uncomfortable indeed to have lived in either place.
Panic infected the Australians and a mass migration to the central part of the country was begun, but with little hope the surrounding deserts would offer any effective barrier.
Of course the alkali deserts of Nevada and worse still, the arid, sandy, gravelly, soilless plains of Arizona and New Mexico can never be reclaimed in that way.
The poet should mete out their deserts to all his heroes; honor to whom honor, and infamy to whom infamy, is due.
See Ella and Percy Sykes, Through Deserts and Oases of Central Asia.
There were forests then in south Russia and in the country which is now Western Turkestan, where now steppes and deserts prevail.
They were separated by oceans, seas, thick forests, desertsor mountains from one another.
They made their long way from Central Asia, over deserts and mountains and through alien populations, seeking some new lands in which they might settle.
Possibly he would have pushed eastward across the deserts to the Ganges valley, but his troops refused to go further.
Soon even this hope deserts him, when the story is truly told.
There are deserts in time, as well as space," says Bacon.
Thus the dire pestilence of sorcery multiplies its victims; and in the black hours of midnight hundreds of thousands who bear the name of Christian, on mountains and in deserts perform clandestine rites in honor of their Satanic master.
The Syrian auxiliaries refused to exchange the rich lands of Andalusia for the deserts of Africa and the spears of triumphant Berbers; they defied and murdered Abd-el-Melik, and set up their own chief in his stead.
About this great Central Asian sea lands that are now steppes and deserts were fertile and habitable.
The eastern steppes and deserts of Mongolia was the region of origin of the Hunnish or Mongolian or Tartar or Turkish peoples--for all these several peoples were akin in language, race, and way of life.
Everywhere except in the northern deserts of Arabia, where the Bedouin adhered steadily to the nomadic way of life, the ancient way of life of the Semites before Sargon I and his Akkadians went down to conquer Sumeria.
But being more dispersed over the continent and separated by great mountainous chains and deserts and forests and by the Portuguese Empire of Brazil, they did not achieve a union among themselves.
But few people as yet dreamt of the storm that was even then gathering in the deserts to put an end for ever to this aimless, chronic struggle.
The Sand-rats live more in the desertsthan the cultivated lands, making their burrows at the foot of hills, and among the roots of bushes.
Even so, the calmness with which Grim considered leaving law and all the means of its enforcement behind and crossing deserts with a gang of known thieves for accomplices took most of the edge off it.
Five days' march from here to Petra and how many deserts and tribes between?
The same dead level of country still prevailed; and the sandy deserts of Arabia could not boast a clearer horizon, the low acacia bushes not in any degree interrupting the view.
Then looking the minister steadily in the face, he said in a firm voice, "According to your deserts may you be judged!
According to your deserts may you, who set your law above God's, and call yourself His priest, be dealt with when your time comes!
Some of the greatdeserts that our imagination used to create in Africa or elsewhere do not exist.
