We stood for a while staring at this oasis in the wilderness, and to my boyish fancy it was a fitting introduction to a delectable land.
I thought of St. John's, as you did, as an oasis in a desert of misery and vice.
Their appointed ways lay in the waste beyond, diverging ever more and more, till presently even the greenness of that oasis in which they had met together would be no more to either than a half-forgotten dream.
Their eyes were open, and if theoasis in the desert had seemed desirable to either for a space, yet each knew that it was no abiding-place.
Or was it the chill of the desert beyond the oasis that awaited her?
The Pyramid alone is a fascinating invention, and the 'lost oasis of the vision on the sand' is even more delightful.
Another party was sent three weeks later to the place to order them to return instantly, but when they arrived there they found the oasis deserted.
There is just one chance, he may be hiding in the desert, and before he starts on a long journey he may return to the oasisor may send a messenger to see if it is still occupied by the Mahdi's men.
He said they had heard of but one, who was reported by a black slave to be in the hands of a petty sheik who was living at an oasis in the desert some nine days' journey from here.
On arriving at El Bahr Nile Edgar found that the oasis was much smaller than that they had quitted.
Shields usually left word at the Oasis as to where he might be found in case he should be badly needed, but in this instance he had left word where he could not be found if needed.
Say," the agent was lonesome, "I heard down at the Oasis last night that The Orphant was seen out near the Cross Bar-8 yesterday.
Indeed, it was apparent to me that if I had taken the advice so strangely offered, I might now have been safe in the village of the Great Oasis for which I was bound.
For he spoke of a secret oasis and of a sheikh who had lived since the days of Sultan Kalaun; of a treasure vast as that of Suleyman--and of magic, black magic; of the transmuting of gold and the making of diamonds.
He had left her against a little oasis of piled-up empty milk-cans, far down the platform where a few civilians in similar case were scattered.
This oasisin the desert of conventional graves appealed to the aesthetic sense of Soames, and he sat down there in the sunshine.
This oasis in the desert--these few minutes with her alone, were swept through and through with a feverish wind.
At the maghrib each day will I think of thee, and whether in the desert or the forest, in the oasis or the city, I will send unto thee a message of love and peace upon the sunset zephyr.
Tell him there is news of a British force coming over the border, and that he must stay at that oasis in readiness to attack after Ali Higg has taken steps to draw the British in the right direction.
And since the man's camels were too exhausted to march at once he ordered all three left behind at the oasis and put the prisoner on one of our baggage animals.
You will tell Ibrahim ben Ah to take all his men at once to that next oasis on the way to El-Maan, and to wait there for yourself and Ali Higg, to wait as long as three days if necessary.
East of the great desert, at a distance of a few days’ journey from the Arabian Gulf, lies a straggling fruitful valley, which in some sense may be regarded as an oasis of colossal dimensions.
He had a great temple of Amen, whose ruins still exist, built in the oasis of Thebes.
Some of these tribes settled in the east of Syria, on the edge of the desert, especially in the oasis of Safa, south of Damascus.
Mulrady mechanically obeyed the summons; but on entering the room the oasis of a few plates in a desert of white table-cloth which awaited him made him hesitate.
This was the dwelling of our schoolmistress, the remembrance of whom will ever be an oasis upon the deserts of memory--for to her I owe some of the most pleasurable moments of my boyhood existence.
A lone rock, cold, barren, and dismal, yet like an oasis in a desert, lifted its gray summit from the sluggish surface.
Her pure, fresh thought and feeling had been like a breath from an oasis to one perishing in the desert.
Behind him lay the hell of burning sand, before him the earthly paradise of the most beautiful oasis in the desert.
When you went out on that terrible adventure which so drew me to you, Armand, you went from the desert to the oasis with a good guide to show you the way.
Well, I am going out of the oasis into the desert, and you are a pitiless guide to me.
The enemy were believed to be holding the oasis basin fairly strongly.
But as at Damascus, the oasis is set in a desert, and the stony, barren mountains contrast strongly with the green orchards below.
A paradise was, in short, set in a frame of most barren desert, an oasis between bare crags of sun-scorched limestone.
In the brown, desolate, and boundless plain to the east, stood the distant green oasis of Damascus, and the white city, with its tall minarets.
An unconventional English woman and an inscrutable stranger meet and love in an oasis of the Sahara.
The legate got little enough in return for his sesterces, but Phoebicius did not restore his wages of sin, and his rage against me knew no bounds when he was transferred to the oasis at the instigation of his betrayed chief.
And yet yesterday in the oasis he had quietly submitted to far worse insults than Polykarp had offered him, and had accepted them with contented cheerfulness.
It was to this oasis in the South African desert that Lord Roberts marched his troops after the surrender of Cronje.
Suffice it to say that the baggage camp, in which were the chaplains and some of the doctors, seemed an oasis in the desert to these agonized travellers.
On one occasion I was sent to the south, six hundred kilometres from Oran, beyond the oasis of Fignig, to destroy a tribe of rebels.
In an oasis we met some rebels, bearing a flag of truce, and exchanged the women for guns and ammunition.
And yet all this is not deemed sufficient; even the poor inhabitants of the oasis in Turkestan are asked to contribute their mite.
Wheat and barley are the most important among the cereals grown in the oasis countries of Turkestan.
There is no doubt that the cotton of the oasis countries will one day considerably increase in value.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oasis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
