...In the evening it was a strangesight to behold the mingled riches of Paris and of Moscow, the luxuriesof two of the largest cities in the world, lying scattered and despisedon the snow of the desert... 
George Grote 「The Two Great Retreats of History」
...They strove by all the means in their power to divert him from such an unlucky scheme; but it was all preaching in the desert and hammering cold iron...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
... “That’s enough,” said Don Quixote to himself, “it would be preaching in the desert to attempt by entreaties to induce this rabble to do any virtuous action...
Miguel de Cervantes 「The History of Don Quixote, Volume II., Complete」
...Here, with incessant sighs and tears,I implore Heaven to have pity on me, and either alleviate mymisery or put an end to my life in this desert, that no traces mayremain of so wretched a creature...
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 「The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha」
...A maidenreared in the shadow of a throne must suffer much and rungrave risks in a desert in a foreign land, amid pain andpoverty...
Antonio de Trueba Henry J. Gill 「The Cid Campeador」
...Upon this immense desert, with a boundless horizon like a sea ofland, the bulls resembled drowsy sharks moving slowly among the wavesof herbage...
Vicente Blasco Ibáñez Frances Douglas 「The Blood of the Arena」
... I thought Alan would be gravelled at that, for we lacked the means of writing in that desert...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
... His long legs were stretched straight before himoverlapping the meager blanket, his spurs buried in the sandy soil ofthe little desert oasis...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
... With reins flying looseand his horse at a mad gallop the son of the desert fired once—twice;and both the keepers of the gate dropped in their tracks...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Son of Tarzan」
...Mountain, meadowland, and desert passed in lovelypanorama; but never a sight of man had the young lieutenant...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
..."Even if you got through theforest alive you could never cross the desert country without foodor water...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「Tarzan the Untamed」
... Promise to let me hear from youif there's going to be a row, and I'll come up country, though I shouldhave to desert the service...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
... The templesgrow tawdry and foul and must be cleansed, and, let me remind you, thecleanser has always come out of the desert...
John Buchan 「Prester John」
... “What, rose of the desert, nightingale of the colony, that with thine amorous lay whilest the lonesome night!” cried Bonaparte, seizing the hand that held the vonlicsense...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
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