Crossword-Solution: DESERTA 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Doughty's _Arabia Deserta_, a chronicle at once personal and impersonal, restrainedly subjective and widely objective, of his life with nomadic Bedouins.

But let my lord be pleased to spare what his little handmaid presumes to claim as her peculiar and lawful property.” 14 9 (return) [ Calabriam adeunt, eamque inter se divisam reperientes funditus depopulati sunt, (or depopularunt,) ita ut deserta sit velut in diluvio.

Jamque, relicta tibi, quantum mutata videntur Rura—relicta tibi, cui non spes ulla regressûs! Te sylvæ, teque antra, puer, deserta ferarum, Incultis obducta thymis ac vite sequaci, Decessisse gemunt; gemitusque reverberat Echo.

The locality of the drama is the "Land of Uz," and the geographers agree that the descriptions of the book apply to the region known in the classical geographies as "Arabia Deserta," southeast of Palestine.

Compare, for instance, a passage from "Provincia Deserta": I have walked into Périgord I have seen the torch-flames, high-leaping, Painting the front of that church,-- And, under the dark, whirling laughter, I have looked back over the stream and seen the high building, Seen the long minarets, the white shafts.