Now came the days of respite, the days of grass and water before the waterless desert.

A long march to the reputed treasure region ensues, including a harrowing journey through a waterless desert.

Also nobody knows how many died trying to get to Halls Creek across the waterless desert, or how many simply turned back.

Here wells could be sunk to obtain water, in the otherwise waterless desert, during the rest of the year.

From the twenty-second to the sixteenth parallel of north latitude we are faced with waterless desert.

They usually occur in close proximity to water sources, but are also able to live year-round in waterless desert.

One lone palm, a giant of its kind, had invaded the rim of the waterless desert.

They were not far from the river, but this seemed like the deep desert, waterless and forbidding.

The things he said, the paint upon his face, his walk into the waterless desert in the middle of the night, all speak of madness.

While the immediate area of the battlefield was waterless desert, where a failure to capture water could result in retreat.