Dead-Sea

Hers was the style of face which one might expect to find under Dead-Sea waves, if diver

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

Some fruitage has been of that poor Dead-Sea sort, -- splendid in coating, but inwardly ashes, -- wretched

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

"This is the only day that I have been down in time for breakfast," -- she, who looked as if the fair Dead-Sea fruits had been all of sustenance that had dropped through the leaden waves for her; and an emotion of awe swept past me, borne upon the renewal of the consciousness that I had been made essential to her.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 Various

Alexandria, -- Madame Guyon's meditations, too, and Isaac Taylor's giddy see-sawings, -- all heresies, and bosh, -- 'Dead-Sea fruits that turn to ashes', and not only disgust you, but blister tongue and lips most vilely.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860 Various

Axtell looked so comfortable, so untired of life, so changed from the first glimpse I had had of her, when I thought her face might be such as would be found under Dead-Sea waves.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

Dead-Sea fruit -- a profitless show, that was apt to turn to ashes in the mouth.

South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899 Louis Creswicke

At last, in 1854, Reach's incorrigible industry bore its Dead-Sea fruit; broken down with over-work, his mind utterly gave way.

The History of "Punch" M. H. Spielmann

Siegfried is estranged from her; for Gunther, his marriage is turned to Dead-Sea apples.

The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912

Its cheerless hillocks were all but naked of vegetation, for a never very flourishing growth of heather had recently been burnt right down to the unkindly-looking earth, leaving a dwarf black forest of charred sticks very grim to the eye and heart; while the dull surface of a small lifeless-looking lake added the final touch to the Dead-Sea mournfulness of the prospect.

Quest of the Golden Girl, a Romance Richard Le Gallienne 1906

There was, after all, in the entire world no faith which could stand unalterable, and in all the world no reward that could be a better thing than Dead-Sea fruit, without the love of that barefooted girl back there in the log cabin, whose sweet tongue could not fashion phrases except in illiteracy.

The Call of the Cumberlands Charles Neville Buck 1904