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• From the highest spire of contentment / my fortune is thrown; / and fear and grief and pain for my deserts / are my hopes, since hope is gone.
• "Nonsense, Mina. It is a shame to me to hear such a word. I would not hear it of you. And I shall not hear it from you. May God judge me by my deserts, and punish me with more bitter suffering than even this hour, if by any act or will of mine anything ever come between us!"
• His reputation falls far below his desert.
• Not thus the land appear'd in ages past, / A dreary desert and a gloomy waste.
• The desert storm was riding in its strength; the travellers lay beneath the mastery of the fell simoom. Whirling wreaths and columns of burning wind, rushed around and over them.
• He declared that the country was an intellectual desert; that he was famishing for spiritual aliment, and for discourse on matters beyond mere nuggets, prospectings, and the price of gold.
• So the question that is commonly asked is, why put a media incubator in a media desert and have it managed by a civil servant?
• They were marooned on a desert island in the Pacific.
• He [...] went aside privately into a desert place.
• Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, / And waste its sweetness on the desert air.
• You can't just drive off and desert me here, in the middle of nowhere.
• Anyone found deserting will be shot.