1 IN the central portion of the great North American Continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert, which for many a long year served as a barrier against the advance of civilisation.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 2 This was obviously impossible in these arid wilds.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 3 Evening had fallen when he woke and the sand and arid grasses of his bed glowed no longer.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 4 4 I slipped through one of these cracks, went up a swept and ungarnished staircase, as arid as a desert, and opened the first door I came to.
5 Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.
6 Only some thirty arid summers had he seen; those summers had dried up all his physical superfluousness.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 7 The night promised to be as arid as the day had been.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—APPARITION TO FATHER MABEUF