Do we say desert or dessert

desert 5440 occurrences

Nor did Saracenic conquests end until the Arabs of the desert had penetrated southward into India farther than had Alexander the Great, and westward until they had subdued the northern kingdoms of Africa, and carried their arms to the Pillars of Hercules; yea, to the cities of the Goths in Spain, and were only finally arrested in Europe by the heroism of Charles Martel.

Expediency would soon make a desert of earth, and there would be no paradise found for those who are unattractive or in adverse circumstances.

He retreated to a desert place in Champagne, where he constructed a small oratory with his own hands.

Cromla answered around, and the sons of the desert stood still.

Behind him he leaves the desert, a deformed and ruined land; for childish desire of destruction or thoughtless squandering of vegetable treasures has destroyed the character of Nature; and, terrified, man himself flies from the arena of his actions, leaving the impoverished earth to barbarous races or to animals, so long as yet another spot in virgin beauty smiles before him.

For if you let the opportunity pass, it will desert one day to the enemy's camp and offer itself there.

Any attempt to make that scanty surplus, by means of overflowing canals, travel across the equator into the opposite hemisphere, through such a terrible desert region and exposed to such a cloudless sky as Mr. Lowell describes, would be the work of a body of madmen rather than of intelligent beings.

All these sources of supply are admittedly absent from Mars, which has no permanent bodies of water, no rain, and tropical regions which are almost entirely desert.

Then, again, the heat that reaches the actual surface is partly reflected and partly absorbed, according to the nature of that surfaceland or water, desert or forest or snow-cladthat part which is absorbed being the chief agent in raising the temperature of the surface and of the air in contact with it.

It is in our great desert regions, and especially on high plateaux, that extreme aridity prevails, and it is in such districts that the differences between day and night temperatures reach their maximum.

In the high desert plains of Central Asia the extremes are said to be even greater.

He dwells, emphatically, on the terrible desert conditions of the greater part of the surface of the planet.

Long enough in pursuing cattle among the desert mountains of Lusitania [Footnote: The ancient name of Portugal.] and Celtiberia, you have seen no emolument from so many toils and dangers: it is time to make rich and profitable campaigns, and to gain the great reward of your labours, after having accomplished such a length of journey over so many mountains and rivers, and so many nations in arms.

Two thousand infantry and two hundred horse, having killed the guards at the gates, desert to Hannibal; whom the Carthaginians having addressed kindly, and excited by the hope of great rewards, sent each to several states to gain over the minds of their countrymen.

We met when she had long been engaged to a friend of her youth, a man noble and true, to whom she owed much, and whom she felt it a kind of murder to desert.

I must desert you.

The doctrine that the loss of the servant would be a penalty adequate to the desert of the master, admits his guilt and his desert of some punishment, and it prescribes a kind of punishment, rejected by the law, in all cases where man took the life of man, whether with or without intent to kill.

The doctrine that the loss of the servant would be a penalty adequate to the desert of the master, admits his guilt and his desert of some punishment, and it prescribes a kind of punishment, rejected by the law, in all cases where man took the life of man, whether with or without intent to kill.

I will never desert you.

The first part of the prophecy was fulfilled by the pipe-line which has brought Nile water (taken from the fresh-water canal) for the use of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force across the Sinai desert to the neighbourhood of Gaza.

The United States of the future will not be a desert, tree-less country.

Full sure I am that God would not desert you, But lend His favor to the righteous cause.

And you desert the common cause so coldly? TELL.

Tell rescues the lost sheep from yawning gulfs: Is he a man, then, to desert his friends?

No trace of human creature met their eye, Save one poor hut upon the desert shore, Where dwelt a lonely man, and kept the ferry.

dessert 545 occurrences

By dessert everything was lively again, and dinner ended by Mr. Doran singing "The hounds of the Meynell," with one foot on the table as gay as a lark.

Lady Doraine had drawn Mr. Pike, who is melancholy-looking, with a long Jew nose; but she woke him up and got him quite animated by dessert, and Mrs. Pike did not like it one bit.

Melt a dessert-spoonful butter and stir slowly into it twice as much flour, add gradually a gill of milk.

Stir in a dessert-spoonful flour and curry powder to taste, and pour on boiling water, stock, or gravy as required.

"La Fleur," said she, "what is the name of that delicious dessert you gave us last night?"

"She will always call the 'sweet' a dessert," she thought; and then she answered, "That was Blarney Fluff, ma'am, with sauce Irlandaise.

" With that he pushed back his plate, stuffed his astronomy paper into his pocket, and left the table, without waiting for dessert.

It also grows abundantly in Europe, and the nuts are used for dessert, pickling, and many other purposes, while the poorer classes often depend largely on them for food.

ENTREMETS, m., mets léger que l'on sert après le rôti et avant le dessert.

] Along toward Dessert Jim was talking in the Tone used by Muggsy McGraw when he is Coaching the Man who is Playing Off from Second.

We passed through a dining parlour, where we saw the remains of a dessert, coffee, &c. and were assailed by the odours of a plentiful repast.

The representative Lejeune solaced his leisure hours in beheading animals with a miniature Guillotine, the expence of which he had placed to the account of the nation; and so much was he delighted with it, that the poultry served at his table were submitted to its operation, as well as the fruits at his dessert!

As we were eating our dessert, a gemischtes compote so rich that it nearly sent us to our eternal rest, Fräulein Therese came and asked us to have our coffee in the kitchen.

When the meal was nearly done Bridget brought in and deposited on each plate a good thick pancake as a dessert.

Much variety may be given this simple dessert by serving it with a dressing of fruit juices; red raspberry, strawberry, grape, current, cranberry, cherry, and plum are all very good.

A little care in forming the stars and filling the molds makes this a delicious and pretty dessert.

If preferred, the dessert may be prepared in one large mold, and a larger number of berries arranged in the form of a cross in the bottom of the dish, covering with rice, and adding as many alternate layers of berries and rice as desired.

It is economical and convenient, because the dessert can be prepared several hours before needed; but it must be stated that it has in itself little or no food value, and there is great liability of its being unwholesome.

As soon as the dessert is melted or eaten, they resume their activity in the body, and may cause sickness.

If one can afford to use orange juice in place of the water in making the syrup, the dessert will be greatly improved.

This dessert is best if made several hours before it is needed and set in the refrigerator to keep cold.

Fresh strawberries, raspberries, or peaches may be substituted for oranges in making this dessert, if preferred.

" Landor acknowledges that he has eaten better pears and cherries in Italy than in England, but that all the other kinds of fruitage in Italy appeared to him unfit for dessert.

Then, if the Boche starts putting over heavy stuff, you can pop down into the basement and have your dessert in bed.

I have already planned a house-warming, and invited them all to it, a house-warming in whichoh, absurd!I shall sit at the head of the table, and father and mother only at the sidesI shall tell the people who they are to take in to dinner, and nod my head from the top when dessert is ended.

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