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Meanings of Arabian Desert in English

A desert in Egypt between the Nile River and the Red Sea.

Usage of Arabian Desert in English
1
Jones, in turn, told Storm more about what they had just witnessed taking place above the Arabian Desert.
Wild Storm
2
Oil, shopping malls and skyscrapers long ago upstaged the vast Arabian Desert from which the city of Dubai grows.
BBC
3
He started his advance on a line extending from Haifa on the coast, across Palestine to the Arabian Desert.
Winning a Cause: World War Stories
4
Thirty-five hundred years ago, the Hebrews were a pastoral, primitive people inhabiting the wilderness known today as the Arabian Desert.
The Necessity of Atheism
5
He had travelled far and wide in the great Arabian Desert and he had also helped at the excavations at Tel-el-Amarna.
There was a King in Egypt
6
Jerusalem was about five hundred and fifty statute miles from Babylon, and the vast Arabian Desert shifted its sands between them.
New Tabernacle Sermons
7
But, oh, he says, that pyramid, that would have been quite a sight rising from the sands of the Arabian Desert.
The Irish Times
8
This table-land, which is mostly fertile, extends eastward about twenty miles, and terminates in the Arabian Desert, which is still higher.
A Trip Abroad / An Account of a Journey to the Earthly Canaan an...
9
A little Bedouin boy tags along when his brother guides a British soldier through the Arabian Desert during World War One.
Radio NZ
10
Nothing can be more incorrect than the vulgar idea of an Arabian Oasis, except it be the popular conception of an Arabian Desert.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volu...
11
Returning to Bagdad, Ibn Batuta crossed the Arabian Desert a second time, and took up his residence in Mecca for the space of three years.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862
12
Except by what he could see for himself, or hear of by uncertain rumor of speech in the obscure Arabian Desert, he could know nothing.
On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
13
Except by what he could see for himself, or hear of by uncertain rumour of speech in the obscure Arabian Desert, he could know nothing.
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in...
14
Bedouins of the Arabian desert, who resort hither in summer for pasturage.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
15
A stranger was riding a lazy camel across the lonely Arabian desert.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
16
The Arabian desert approached the sea in a series of plateaux or steps.
The Yoke / A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Chil...
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