From Charles M. Doughty's "Travels in Arabia Deserta" (1888): "The day is done....The moon rises ruddy from that solemn obscurity of jebel like a mighty beacon; and the morrow will be as this day, days deadly drowned in the sun of the summer wilderness." jebel = a range of hills ("Days deadly drowned in the sun." That's the desert, all right. And check out the straightforward, vivid vocabulary and the degree of unobtrusive alliteration throughout.)
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