For horsemen alone it would have been a hard march, but with cattle and sheep to herd across that waterless waste it became a terrific undertaking.

But she saw nothing that threatened the company except the waterless waste.

It looked as if we either had to fight, facing enemies on both sides, or we had to take our chances in the waterless waste of the sand dunes.

Never in their lives had they seen a waterless waste, a dun drear landscape without shelter or beauty.

It was five hundred miles of terrible going through the waterless wastes.

They traveled all day and night, pushing through that fierce, waterless waste to reach camp on the other side.

No army could survive out in that burning, waterless waste.

On the 10th the force left the Nile at Duem and struck inland across the almost waterless wastes of Kordofan for Obeid.

Gordon was heading straight westward, across waterless wastes, cut by a trace so faint only an Arab or El Borak could have followed it.

He had not come to the limits of his endurance, but he knew another day under the merciless sun in those waterless wastes would bring him down.