I do not know the natural reason for these things, but it is clear that this sterile rainless region extends from 4° south of the equinoctial line to beyond the tropic of capricorn.
The habitations afford some protection from sun and wind, but not from cold and wet, which are hardly known in winterless and nearlyrainless Seriland.
From the first breath it rolls up tremendous clouds of dust, that come and come, and never cease, long after it seems as if every particle in that rainlessland must have been driven by.
It is obtained by leaching the soil of the rainless districts of Chili and Peru.
These are the guano of the rainless islands off the coast, the nitrate deposits in the province of Tarapaca and the mines of silver and copper.
He shares the general opinion that no agriculture can succeed in this rainless summer land of California.
It is the rainless summer time; no sound save the congress of the coyotes, or the notes of the mountain owl, disturbs the dreams of the campers.
The long Greek summer is practically rainless and in the fervent heat and unbroken drought all nature languishes.
What could she do for him on the bare stubble-field which lay scorched and baking under the fierce rays of the sun all the long rainless summer through?
Owing to the rainless character of the country, the only means of obtaining water for the crops is by irrigation, and where the fertilizing Nile water cannot be taken by means of canals, there cultivation ends and the desert begins.
Acting on the supposition that this idea was a correct one, most observers have concluded that the climate of Egypt in remote periods was very different from the dry, rainless one now obtaining.
By tapping the azequia we turned the barren valley into a garden of roses, for in that rainless region water was a veritable magician, whatsoever it touched it vivified.
So down he went, hardly daring to raise his eyes to the alluring iniquities of the painted imagery which, gaudy in crimson and blue, still blazed out upon the desolate solitude, uninjured by that rainless air.
There it towered up, the wonder of the world, its white roof bright against the rainless blue; and beyond it, among the ridges and pediments of noble buildings, a broad glimpse of the bright blue sea.
It also embraces the low coast; and portions of the interior of Arabia; passes through Beloochistan to the base of the Himalayas, and terminates with the rainless tableland of Thibet.
There are, in fact, two rainless belts or districts, one on each side of the Equator.
In the Rainless Districts vegetation is a nullity; it becomes reduced to a very small number of saline plants and dwarf bushes, nourished by the brackish waters which, the soil conceals.
In the northern part of the state the wet season begins earlier and lasts longer than in the south, while the southeastern corner is an almost rainless desert.
The rainless desert, or southeastern corner of our state, is the hottest region of all.
The distribution is of course unequal, both as to time and localities, and in those districts where the fall is most considerable, the number of rainless days is the greatest.
The fact is elsewhere alluded to in the present work of the power possessed by the land leech of Ceylon of retaining vitality even after being parched to hardness during the heat of the rainless season.
Storing clover under cover is far preferable to putting it up in stacks, except in rainless climates.
The advantage to the farmer of rainless harvesting months is obvious.
In these rainless regions all is necessarily silence, desolation, and death.
The most extensive and remarkable rainless region on the earth is a vast tract extending through the interior and northern part of Africa, and the southwestern part of Asia.
The reader will observe, by referring once more to the map, that south of the great rainless region of which we are speaking, there lie groups and ranges of mountains in Abyssinia, called the Mountains of the Moon.
It is formed, in a word, by the surplus waters of a district inundated with rains, in their progress across a rainless desert, seeking the sea.
Much of the granite was a deep red, but the exterior coating was in all cases decomposed, and crumbled at a blow; exhibiting a marked contrast to the hard-faced granite blocks in the rainless climate of Lower Egypt.
We started just after ten, on a windy and rainless morning, in an atmosphere giving beautifully clear views of distant objects, and thereby raising some reasonable apprehensions for the morrow among the weather-wise.
There came a rumble over the hills as of a hidden storm in time of drouth, thundering mockingly in the rainless air.
At that time it happened that the winds were hot from the southwest, and the maize grew yellow as the sun that smote it, and the rainless air curled its blades.
But, it may be said that the rainless regions at any rate receive no moisture, and therefore can not supply any by evaporation.
The hottest surfaces, even at the rainless portion, where there is no vortex, no storm, and no wind but the continual uniform N.
West of that is Beloochistan, with its rainless deserts.
It is the fact that it is thus sterile and rainless to which we desire to call attention in this place.
And what connects the two together over the eastern portion of North America, so as to leave no distinctly marked wet and dry season, and no rainless and sterile portion there?
South America has no other wholly rainless region, so far as is known.
Suffice it here to add, that if it were not for the concentration of these counter-trades, on the western side of the great oceans, the rainless region between the parallels of 20 deg.
Here are the rainless portions of the earth, already but briefly alluded to; here the monsoons, and another peculiarity, viz.
The north-west desert of India, and therainless deserts of Beloochistan and Arabia reverse no trade and have no monsoon, although the Arabian Sea heads right up among them.
But it is not true that all the rainless regions are without evaporation.
Again, within this trade-wind region are therainless countries.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rainless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
