It seemed to him the click echoed out across the parched land like the gunshot itself.

Fires on such deeply parched land can smolder for days, he said, threatening any time to burst back into flame.

Who had ever thought that this parched land could yield up so many variations on green?

Microfinance is like irrigating a parched land with the promise of life and growth.

They gingerly stepped from the squib onto parched and highly arid land.

At one point he was in an airplane, looking down over parched land and blue sea.

Is it proper to watch someone die, perching on hills and sitting on parched land?

This is a post-apocalyptic place of felled cities, parched land and downtrodden people.

It was indeed breathtaking, an eerie transformation from the parched land found during the day.

A bumper crop, such as never seen before, came up in the parched land.