But worry still clouded the parson's long face as he looked out over the parched plains from which emanated a deceptive peacefulness.

Anyway, what good could a lone blue qheuen do, in the middle of a parched plain?

Beneath that torturous sun and sky, the landscape was a flat, parched plain in every direction except south.

A line of hesitant, lumbering trucks and cars was picking its way uncertainly from the gate, streaming rustily out onto the parched plain.

Sinai's rugged interior is filled with rows of barren mountains, wind-sculpted canyons and parched, dusty plains.

Across the parched plains of eastern India, weary sharecroppers harvest wheat under a blazing sun.

He saw himself crossing that parched purple plain that had darkened his sleep in Pidruid.

From across the parched plain he heard the wails and Screams of hundreds he wouldn't begin to be able to help.

At the coast there was little drinking water, and the group embarked on a walk across the parched plain with a single wheelbarrow to carry their belongings.

All across the parched and barren plains, for as far as the eye could see, wildflowers were blooming in the sunlight.