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This was a long, low line of green, indicating a ditch, or slough, edged with saw-palmettoes and bay bushes, that began at some indefinite northwestward point and diagonally crossed the prairie until it passed around our Oasis scarcely more than a hundred feet away.
A thrill of joy shot through him, for Polykarp's lips were indeed not cold, he moved his hand, and now the Lord be praised! he actually opened his eyes. "And I am not a murderer!" A thousand voices seem to sing with joy in his heart, and then he thought to himself, "First I will carry him down to his parents in the oasis, and then go up to the brethren."
The plowman leaves his plow, and in long strides approaches the life- renewing spot, while his team, that cannot follow, look wistfully after him. Here the cattle love to pass the heat of the day, and hither come the birds to wash themselves and make their toilets. Indeed, a spring is always an oasis in the desert of the fields. It is a creative and generative centre.
It was clear to me that the Oasis of Clarens is the spot in which I should like to rest. Here I am surrounded with memories; here death is like a sleep a sleep instinct with hope. Hope is not forbidden us, but peace and submission are the essentials. September 1, 1874. On waking it seemed to me that I was staring into the future with wide startled eyes.
Even the garden at Friars' Holm, usually a coolly green oasis in the midst of the surrounding streets, seemed as airless as any back court or alley, and Coppertop, who had been romping ever more and more flaggingly with a fox-terrier puppy he had recently acquired, finally gave up the effort and flung himself down, red-faced and panting, on the lawn where his mother and Magda were sitting.
Podgorica lies like an oasis of green trees on the rolling, but treeless, plain. The Albanian border is but a rifle-shot away, and the village of Dinoš and the fortress of Tusi are plainly to be seen. We decided to spend the night here and hear Kećo's story, though Podgorica was only three hours' distance.
They made a détour in the oasis to give their Bedouins time to pitch their camp in the sands, and Ibrahim an hour or two to prepare everything for their arrival.
The best resistance made to Sapor was by Odenatus, a Syrian chief, and his beautiful Arabian wife Zenobia, who held out the city of Palmyra, on an oasis in the desert between Palestine and Assyria, till Sapor retreated. Finding that no notice was taken of them by Rome, they called themselves Emperor and Empress.
A stream brought water from a spring close by: in front of the house rare sight in that thirsty land spread a garden of flowers. It was an oasis in the desert. But the desert itself stretched grimly all round. I could never quite decide how far the oasis was caused by the water from the spring, and how far by Hilda's presence. "Then you live here?"
"And yet the hot sand of the desert, and the cool of the night, and the occasional patch of miserable, languishing green, with the little kindly spring in the camel-trodden oasis, seemed all so delightful in the past life that one was quite content, never suspecting the existence of better things. But now I could almost laugh to think of it.
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