Which preposition to use with oasis
Here and there in the residential road are little oases of shops, patronised by the neighbourhood, and some of the children may live over these.
"Seems as though we had come upon an oasis in this desert of stone," muttered Tonnison, as he gazed interestedly.
Some day the world will understand that, and the little oases on the windy tops of hills will harbor for healing its ailing, house-weary broods.
Some of them dwell in villages, and some wander from oasis to oasis.
The cars of this beneficent institutionsurvivors of a Europe that once seemed divided between tourists and hotel-keepersoutdash the most dashing war correspondents, insinuate themselves wherever civilians are found at all, and once aboard you carry your oasis with you as you do in a Pullman through our own alkali and sage-brush.
They were walking together in a secluded lane that led from behind the Farm Hospital barns to a little patch of woodland through which a clear stream sparkled, a silent, intimate, leafy oasis amid an army-ridden desert, where there was only a cow to stare at them, knee deep in young mint, only a shy cardinal bird to interrupt them with its exquisite litany.
It was Drayton who said of Marlowe, that he "had in him those brave translunary things that the first poets had;" and there are brave things in Drayton, but they are only occasional passages, oases among dreary wastes of sand.
The place was a curious little oasis from the noonday heat.
but we mean at least to make it an oasis for our friends who are weary of the whirling of the pool.
The date-harvest is expected with as much anxiety by the Arab in the oasis as the gathering in of the wheat and corn in temperate regions.
The bottom is a bright green oasis through which flows the rapid Majes River, too deep to be forded even in the dry season.
At midday we were refreshed by the sight of the little oasis around the military-post of Settat.
Sefrou is a military outpost in an oasis under the Atlas, about forty miles south of Fez.
It seemed like the good inn after the bleak high-road, the oasis after the sandstorm, shade after glare, the dressing after the wound, sleep after insomnia, surcease from unspeakable torture.