Stuart said the land was "...dreary, dismal, dreadful desert."

Without other mishap than the rupturing of a wine-skin from the force of the new vintage it contained, they came to the verdurous pasture-lands beyond that dreary desert.

Was it maybe him who carried news of Louie's approach out on to dreary desert?

He vowed that life without Blakeney would be but a dreary desert.

I vow, Madam, that this life would be but a dreary desert without your smiles and his sallies.

He looked out a window at empty, dreary desert under the dawn sky.

She was my oasis of mystery in the dreary desert of knowledge.

God had left him as a lonely pilgrim in a dreary desert.

He looked out of the windows at empty, dreary desert under the dawn sky.

"At least," he added with meticulousness-thinking of the dreary deserts he had explored before finding this inhospitable oasis-"at least-not a commercial one."