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If the stars shone clear through the night on mountains and table-lands, in the pure and vapourless atmosphere of Iran, sand-storms and mist lay on the northern desert.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

September 20.—The morning was cloudy and cool; but the clouds broke away about nine o'clock, and the sun shone from a vapourless sky, as usual.

From What I Saw in California by Bryant, Edwin