In the old, happy days droughts had certainly occurred, but with intervals of years between.
The garden was full of fruit-trees of great age and size, which even in the late droughts seemed to have been supplied with adequate moisture.
M97 Belief of the Ba-Thonga that severe droughts result from the concealment of miscarriages by women.
These Australian droughts are really terrible things, especially when they come upon newly-opened country and in the hotter regions of Queensland and the North.
Evidently there were droughtsin those days, too, and the fields of Mandan corn withered in the hot summer suns.
What special means God used to bring about these great droughtswe cannot know, any more than we can know why a storm or a shower should come one week and not another.
And most distinctly does the Bible say that these droughts came at times when the Jews had fallen into idolatry, and profligacy therewith.
Of late years, droughts have been of frequent occurrence, owing, no doubt, to the destruction of the woods and forests.
In the United States, the supply of rain is far less uniform than in England, and much severer droughts are experienced.
St. Lucia is subject to periodic droughts and/or tropical storms, and its protected market agreement with the UK for bananas may end in 1992.
The largely agrarian and subsistence-based economy is frequently disrupted by extended droughts common to the Sahel region of Africa.
But, despite this importance, the droughts of summer and the ice-torrents of winter made a landward route from Kentucky to Pennsylvania and the East an absolute necessity.
It thrives best on sandy soil and hills of glacial drift, and endures a severe winter climate, as well as the frequently long-continued droughts of the hot summers.
But the prairies lie between the more humid forest-covered regions on the east and the less humid or subarid plateaus on the west, and during the summer season droughts and hot, scorching winds are of common occurrence.
Droughts in some places, floods in others, locusts and failure of the crops, brought famine and pestilence.
In countries which are subject to long-continued droughts the soil is frequently converted into dust, which, being carried away by the winds, leaves the land barren.
In connexion with droughts may be mentioned a plan {133} proposed by Mr. Espy of the United States of America, for remedying them by means of artificial rains.
It is a misconception that droughtscause desertification.
Owing to this, and to the infrequency of rain, there is no European country as richly endowed in other respects, where droughts and therefore famines have been so frequent and serious.
On thesedroughts and famines, see Mariana, Historia de Espana, Madrid, 1794, vol.
The droughts and the epidemic diseases which are frequently fatal to sheep and cattle in other parts of Australia seem alike unknown in this favoured region.
The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
One is away on the far Barcoo Watching his cattle the long year through, Watching them starve in the droughts and die.
The droughts are but a foretaste of worse evils to come; by the sword, the famine, and the plague will I consume them.
The land is already to a great extent desolate, through the ravages of the invaders, or through severe droughts (cf.
The havoc wrought by war, the harrying and slaying of man and beast, the felling of fruit trees and firing of the vineyards, are intended; but not so as to exclude the ravages of pestilence and droughts (chap.
Droughts succeeded, and these, with perpetual threats and annoyances from the Boers, so completely distracted the mind of the tribe that our operations were almost suspended.
A series or droughts compelled us to send for nearly all our food 270 miles off.
Everything languishes during the intense heat; and successive droughts having only occurred since the Gospel came to the Bakwains, I fear the effect will be detrimental.
Then, again, while I was laboring at Kolobeng, seeing only a small arc of the cycle of Providence, I could not understand it, and felt inclined to ascribe our successive and prolonged droughts to the wicked one.
By the flow of water thus brought to the surface, the devastating effects of the periodical droughts have been minimised, and large areas have become available to profitable occupation that previously were waste country.
When Mr. Gregory traversed this fine country, one of those devastating periodical droughts that visit this inland territory now and again, must have been prevailing for many months, and had left the land a wilderness.
These partial droughts happen in December and January.
It is during summer droughts or when deep snows cut off ordinary supplies that the animals attack the bark of growing trees or shrubs.
Droughts are described, where "there was not a drop of rain for three or four months, and cattle were fed upon the leaves of the trees.
Belts of droughts and frequent rains occur every year in different portions of the country side by side, and the dividing line follows the course of the counter-trade, and is sometimes distinctly marked for weeks.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "droughts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
