These schemes turned both wetland and the parched ground into fertile agricultural land.

It would continue until it dropped some of its water on the parched ground.

It was like the noise of horses' hoofs at some distance on the parched ground.

The dead became more numerous, the parched ground beneath them black with spilled blood.

And now that contact was fully established, her body responded to the flow of vital energy as parched ground responds to water.

Yet already the heat was building, radiating up from the parched ground.

She'd missed the vision, but she'd be close enough to witness water breaking through the parched ground.

Steps that lay hidden under an illusion of parched ground led down under the earth.

The heat from the parched ground came to meet the children as they stepped out of the plane.

"Eppy," he said again, and there she was, miraculously, sitting up a few feet away from him on the parched ground.