Chapter Twenty-five Modern Development Oases Have Grown in the Desert The Mormons of Arizona today are not to be considered in the same manner as have been their forebears.
The desert wilderness has been broken and in its stead oases are expanding, oases filled with a population proud of its Americanism, prosperous through varied industry and blessed with consideration for the rights of the neighbor.
Celebrated by Arab poets, these oases were never really the forecourts of paradise.
In these oases grew wheat, barley, grapes, palms, and tamarinds.
Dwellers in the oases say that this beast may live without drinking water at all, or at least very rarely.
It was also the chief market-place to which people brought goods from the oases scattered throughout the desert.
Assembling for himself the most important forces, he sent swift runners through the oases and summoned to his standard all who had no property.
In fact, hidden oases between naked hills along that highway drank in the divine water.
A distance equal to twenty-four English miles had to be covered before the next of the long chain of oases could be reached, and it was Sheikh Wadherim's intention to accomplish this part of the journey ere dawn.
This stage of the journey was not so tedious as the first day's, the distance being shorter, while there were two small intervening oases where halts were made under the light of the stars.
But what if there are no more oases beyond that one?
It might, if there hadn't been other stories of lost oases which have proved to be true.
He says that only lately people have found several oases south of Tripoli, which were talked about before in the same legendary way as this one he's going to search for.
Or they might go on, not trying to cross the Libyan desert in the direction of Assouan, as Stanton had hoped to do, but skirting southward by a longer route where the desert was charted and oases existed.
The same superstition prevails in all the oases that stud the north of Africa, from Egypt to the Atlantic, but the people are unwilling to explain what especial virtue there exists in an ass's skull.
From all that I can learn, its entire population does not exceed twenty-six thousand souls, scattered about in little oases over a vast extent of country.
In these gardens, as in most of the oases of the desert, the fruit trees that require most protection from the sun are planted between the palms, which make a kind of roof with their long leaves.
During the winter the tribes would pasture their camels along the edges of the desert, but in the spring they would visit the cities in the oasesto gather up a supply of dates and other desert products to sell in the north.
They were in demand as slaves in all the oases of the deserts, and along the coasts of the Mediterranean.
The same tribes which advanced from the oases of the desert to the north also descended towards the south, thus establishing intercourse between the Barbary States and Timbuktu.
At the end of the summer they would return to the south, arriving at the oases just as the dates were ripening.
Charles Martins classes the Oasesof the Sahara under three heads, corresponding to his three sub-regions.
The oasesof the Sandy Desert, as I have said, are not watered.
And thus many oases which were on the point of perishing have been saved, others have been created, and the conquest of the Desert by modern industry is henceforth no more than a question of time.
Lowell's oases will refuse to yield to such improvement, and will all still show themselves as uniform spots, precisely circular in outline?
Lowell has drawn attention to the "strangely economic character of both the canals and oases in the matter of form.
But these canals and oases also premise the liquid that we call Water--water that flows and water utilized in cultivation.
There is a much simpler explanation of the regularity of the canals and oases than to suppose that an industrious population of geometers have dug them out or planted them; it is connected with the nature of vision.
Lowell and his disciples assert to be artificial canals and oases are really such, they premise the order of being that we call Man.
Both spots resemble in form and character the oases of Prof.
They plant it down in little oases all over the country, and live in it.
The little islands before us, lovely with trees and flowers, green oasesin the rushing river, it is but a few years and they will be engulfed.
Even the little moisture that obtains beneath the surface is sapped by the kanots, or underground canals, which bring to the fevered lips of the desert oases the fresh, cool springs of the Elburz.
But before us still a strong head wind was sweeping over the many desert stretches that lay between the oases along the Su-la-ho, and with the constant walking our sandals and socks were almost worn away.
Oases are like stars in the dark vault of heaven, like moments of happiness and prosperity in a man's life.
Even in the oases it causes a feeling of anxiety and trouble, for the burning heat is most harmful to palms and crops.
They have made existence in many oases quite unendurable.
It presents the same peculiar aspect of Persian scenery nearly everywhere-a general verdureless and unproductive country, with the barren surface here and there relieved by small oases of cultivated fields and orchards.
The plunge out of rough travelling into these oases of civilisation is very sudden, and the contrast gives a full meaning to the advantages and disadvantages of both forms of existence.
He was gone in an instant, leaving her standing on the border-line of one of the oases of black-velvet shadow, swayed by the violence of her emotion as some tall young birch might have been shaken by the fury of a south-west gale.
He asked, as they walked side by side from patches of brilliant blue-white light into deep oases of shadow: "May I say more?
From the Nile, caravan routes lead westward to the various oases and eastward to the Red Sea, the shortest (120 m.
Besides the oases the desert is remarkable for two other valleys.
Through the oases also ran paths to the Sudan by which the raw merchandise of the southern countries could be brought to Egypt.
The exceptions are the towns in the oases comparatively unimportant, and those in the Fayum province.
These oaseswere known and occupied by the Egyptians as early as 1600 B.
The desert glows in the strong sun, the oasesfade away to nothing, like a meteor.
Now, under us is the purple desert; under us are the oases of pale emerald.
The bottom of the ocean, a monotonous desert of mud and sand, the accumulated sediment of hundreds of centuries, has occasional oases of strange vegetation.
The finest wheat for cous cous from Algeria and Tunis, the finest dates and fruits from the oasesto the north, the manufactured products of the factories of Dakar and Casablanca.
We requisitioned motor transport from some of the Sahara Afforestation Project oasesdown around Tessalit.
Certainly he can't figure, with the thousand odd troops he has, to be able to take and hold enough of the oases and water holes in this vicinity to push us out completely.
So sure are the inhabitants of these oases that it is not going to rain that their houses are built merely as a shelter against the sun and wind.
The "warm valleys" may be those of the rubber country, but Sir Clements Markham thought the oases of the coast were meant.
They have acquired cattle while living in the oases of the wilderness, and they are anxious about them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
