Yon's a grand passage; but the fu' meaning naebody can understand wha hasna kent the thirst and heat o' a waterless desert.
A waterless desert, where the horses sunk fetlock-deep in shifting sand, or were cruelly pricked by the thorny leafless shrub which was the only living plant to be seen.
I echoed, dismayed, remembering that it lay far south beyond the Great Sahara, with nearly two thousand miles of trackless and almost waterless wilderness between it and civilisation.
Halima told me afterwards that in this great waterless region of shifting sand, so fraught with perils, a storm was always brewing and the dreaded poison-wind always blowing, therefore men raised their hands to pray as they crossed it.
Now and then we halted at Arab villages in the oases, but the greater part of our time was spent in the dry, waterless wilderness.
Colonel Mahon's force had been travelling at the rate of twenty-two miles a day over sandy tracks and waterless deserts, and skirmishing by the way.
A scorching sun by day and a frigid temperature by night, occasional sand blasts rendering drier than ever parched throats already dry as husk from the tramp through a sand-clogged and almost waterless country, were but items in the programme.
In attacking this position General Botha had to consider not only the enemy's strength of position, but also the fact that his troops had to go into action after a waterless twenty-odd mile trek over the desert.
A halt was made while the blacks skinned the dead beast, for in practically waterless districts panther-skin is a valuable aid to the efficiency of a Maxim gun.
In the Great Desert the light comes early from the far-off Holy City, golden as the Prophet's glory, to light our footsteps in those tracklesswaterless wastes which are shunned by man and forgotten by Allah.
How little did he dream that the hills beneath him were full of silver, and that one day a populous city of miners should occupy the waterless plain in front of him!
The insignificant and waterless city was glorious to the prophet because God was in her.
Were not Abana and Pharpar, rivers of Damascus, better than all the waters of Israel, let alone these waterless wadys, whose bleached beds made the Jewish capital so squalid?
There was no way of retreat open to the Dervishes, except to cross the waterless desert; or to fly south, keeping to the course of the Atbara, which would take them farther and farther from the Nile with every mile they marched.
Exhausted though they were by a waterless night march, the Roman cavalry met the assault, and, repelling it, drove the enemy back into the woods.
It seems to have been before our Lord's mind when He drew the description of the unclean spirit walking through waterless places, seeking rest and finding none.
Sometimes it was from a Coaster, which had found a waterless Bahama Cay littered with sun-dried bodies.
Through all the islands there ran tales of charred derelicts at sea, of sudden glares seen afar in the night-time, and of withered bodies stretched upon the sand of waterless Bahama Keys.
By the bye, there was much speculation between two of our party regarding the behavior of these curious animals on arriving at the wells after their long waterless march.
We knew that the end of our waterless journey was not far off; for where those clouds were discharging their precious burdens the valley of Ariab lay.
One trembles to think what these regions will be like in fifty years; a treeless and waterless tableland--worse than the glaring limestone deserts of the Apennines in so far as they, at least, are diversified in contour.
It may well be that the existence of this fount helped to decide Manfred in his choice of a site for his city; such springs are rare in this waterless land.
Its says the bird is larger than a pigeon, marked with various colours, yellow especially, black-breasted and a dweller in the stony and waterless desert.
Further on are broken stairs, dry tanks, waterless fountains, endless empty yards, marble platforms, and disfigured arches of majestic porches.
In the centre there is a deep waterless well, covered with a grating like the opening into a drain.
Different indeed from these treeless, waterless steppes are the valleys and mountains of the seaboard.
He was one of a party of four of us who had been landed with a few kegs of water and bare necessities on the waterless coast opposite Hollams Bird Island.
I learnt that Inyati's country lay far to the north-east, across the dreaded waterless stretches of the unknown Kalahari.
The camel is inseparably associated with the most arid deserts of earth, with sun-scorched Sahara, Arabia Petraea, and waterless tropical regions.
This was to be a very strenuous day, for that evening we were to start on the long waterless march about which we had heard so much.
The following day, after a halt near some dirty springs at noon, we started on another long waterless trek in the late afternoon.
On the left hand of the present road to Lussac-le- Chateau is a stony, narrow, waterless valley, up which formerly ran the old Roman highway.
Much of this region is absolute desert, wide expanses of sand, waterless and lifeless, on which to halt is to court death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "waterless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anhydrous; arid; desert; dry; dusty; sandy; sapless; sere; thirsty; waterless
