Meanings of small oases in English

She enjoyed these small oases in the desert of work.

In deserts of gold frames appeared small oases of oil-painting.

But, these are small oases, and I am soon back again in metropolitan Arcadia.

For occasionally we stopped at the water-holes or small oases, where the camels drank and rested.

Here and there we traced picturesque courtyards and gardens that were small oases of green in this wilderness of red-roofed buildings.

Happily there have always been small oases, neglected for some time by the vulture; and here we learn what intensive agriculture can produce for mankind.

The recorded coral β-diversity among the shoals supports the hypothesis that these habitats behave like small oases of hard substrata interspersed in a muddy bottom.