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Deserts See also environment. a religious hermit living alone, often in the desert. — eremitic, adj. the systematic study of desert features and phenomena. an abnormal fear of dryness and dry places, as deserts.
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deserts plural noun just deserts due, payment, reward, punishment, right, return, retribution, recompense, come-uppance (slang), meed (archaic), requital, guerdon (poetic) At the end of the book the bad guys get their just deserts. Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The Mule, groaning beneath his heavy burden, said to himself: "I am treated according to my deserts. A gigantic eruption, like that of Krakatoa a few years ago, with the accompanying earthquakes, tidal waves, and clouds of volcanic dust, changes the face of the surrounding landscape beyond recognition, bringing down the high lands, elevating the low, making fair lakes where deserts had been, and deserts where green prairies had smiled before. It often basely and cowardly deserts those paragons for whom the men are all wishing, sighing, dying, and spreading, every net in their power; and constantly attends at the heels of that higher order of women for whom the other sex have a more distant and awful respect, and whom (from despair, I suppose, of success) they never venture to attack. |
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