Syrian Desert

Desert Golfing is the gaming equivalent of putting TV on in the background.

After we had passed over this desert, we found several garisons to defend the caravans from the violence of the Tartars.

After the battle of the Pyramids he fell sick, and before the Syrian expedition, applied to return to France.

The leaves were motionless, the river crept past without a murmur, the dark hills rose out of the distant desert like a wave.

The author of the life of St. Francis Xavier, asserts, that "by one sermon he converted ten thousand persons in a desert island."

Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high: and the desert shall be as a charmel, and charmel shall be counted for a forest.