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==English==

===Noun===
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#* {{RQ:Spenser Complaints|poem=Time|sig=C2|verso=1|page=19|passage=And novv thee vvorſhip, mongſt that bleſſed throng / Of heauenlie Poets and Heroes ſtrong. / So thou both here and there immortall art, / And euerie vvhere through excellent '''deſart'''.}}
#* {{RQ:Dryden Virgil|chapter=The Eighth Book of the [[w:Aeneid|Æneis]]|page=441|lines=252–255|passage=See, from afar, yon Rock that mates the Sky, / About vvhoſe Feet ſuch Heaps of Rubbiſh lye: / Such indigeſted Ruin; bleak and bare, / Hovv '''deſart''' novv it ſtands, expos'd in Air!}}
#* {{RQ:Newton Prophecies|chapter=Of the King who Did According to His Will, and Magnified Himself above Every God, and Honoured Mahuzzims, and Regarded Not the Desire of Women|pages=197–198|pageref=198|passage=[T]his profeſſion of a ſingle life vvas propagated in ''Egypt'' by ''[[w:Anthony the Great|Antony]]'', and in ''Syria'' by ''{{w|Hilarion}}''; and ſpred ſo faſt, that ſoon after the time of [[w:Julian (emperor)|''Julian'' the Apoſtate]] a third part of ''Egyptians'' vvere got into the '''deſarts''' of ''Egypt''.}}
#* {{RQ:Boswell Johnson|passage=Probably he had been thinking of the whole of the simile in ''Cato'', of which that is the concluding line; the sandy '''desart''' had struck him so strongly.}}
#* {{RQ:Lamb Essays of Elia|version=Last|page=76|passage=Farewell with him  all that made sickness pompous—the spell that hushed the household—the '''desart'''-like stillness, felt throughout its inmost chambers—{{...|nospace=1}}}}
#* {{RQ:Cooper Wyandotte|volume=I|chapter=VIII|page=126|passage=We are like people on a '''desart''' island, out here in the wilderness—and if ships won't arrive to tell us how matters come on, we must send one out to l'arn it for us.|footer=Probably {{glossary|eye dialect}}.}}

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