desert.

Let us now put aside our storm clothes and journey, in imagination, far away to where it seldom rains -- to that land which we call the desert.

Conservation Reader

Of the specification, Guilty, except the word desert.

General Orders, No. 12 Confederate States of America. Army. Dept. of North Carolina 1864

"desert" or "wilderness", and usually rendered by the Vulgate desertum, "solitude", or occasionally eremus, have not the same shade of meaning as the English word desert.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Frome thought might more properly be called a desert.

Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1 2004

The great ancestral people, who would have shuddered at our black trees, and the corruption of the damp graves, liked to place its embalmed dead in the midst of this luminous, changeless splendour of death, which men call the desert.

Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886

Our sphinx by its size and mysteriousness recalls the desert.

The Pharaoh and the Priest An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt Boles��aw Prus 1879

Where there are no leaves and no earth-worms, therefore, there can be no soil; and under those circumstances we get what we familiarly know as a desert.

Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Grant Allen 1873

The former publisher said he first confided his ambition to Jorge Luis Borges, who characteristically told him the world's largest maze already existed and was called a desert.

Mail & Guardian Online 2010

Telescope also added an arm option to its armless chaise and a 10th frame finish in a light brown shade, called desert.

unknown title 2009

[671,817 square miles; about four times the size of California], is now classified as desert.

NYT > Home Page 2009