As the desert began to expand, the population headed South.

He came down the side of the pass on the other end, and looked out over the far reaches where the desert began.

The place was on the far side of Mission, where irrigation stops and the desert begins.

He had been traveling through Tull, the last town before the desert began.

Not far south of it a desert began, and continued to the sea.

The desert began to crawl with wanderers out of the east.

That is all they can possibly get, for after the rain comes the heat again, and the desert begins to dry.

The desert was beginning to shift and tilt beneath their feet.

The desert began about five miles to the east and nearly a mile below Blade.

In another hour or so the desert would begin to heat up.