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Webster dictionary was developed by Noah Webster in the beginning of 19th century. On this website, you can find definition for Oases from the 1913 edition of Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Define Oases using one of the most comprehensive free online dictionaries on the web.
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- This oasis is mine because I was the only bidder with wealth enough to pay the exorbitant prices demanded, other oases are mine, and villages and tracts of rich lands. - "Desert Love", Joan Conquest.
- It appears then, that the fairest and fruitfulest provinces of the Roman Empire, precisely that portion of terrestrial surface, in short, which, about the commencement of the Christian era, was endowed with the greatest superiority of soil, climate, and position, which had been carried to the highest pitch of physical improvement, and which thus combined the natural and artificial conditions best fitting it for the habitation and enjoyment of a dense and highly refined and cultivated population, are now completely exhausted of their fertility, or so diminished in productiveness, as, with the exception of a few favored oases that have escaped the general ruin, to be no longer capable of affording sustenance to civilized man. - "The Earth as Modified by Human Action", George P. Marsh.
- Of course, it was possible that they were on their way to the village, but it was a poor place, inhabited by very poor people, many of them freed Negroes, who worked in the oases and lived mostly upon dates. - "The Golden Silence", C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson.