A rainless month. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The use of this article in rainless lands dates from ages immemorial, and formed the outer walls of the Egyptian temple. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
And for the last few days, rainless, which is just weird. From Wordnik.com. [What? Another Snow Day? « Whatever] Reference
So I've spent most of my 'rainless' time checking out the small ancient city found behind the Ancient City Walls. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
BWI's virtually rainless streak also goes back to Aug. 23. From Wordnik.com. [Drought getting closer to D.C. area] Reference
Every hundred feet of ascent from the rainless, fervid beach of. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
RAMBERG (voice-over): Another rainless day in LaSalle County, Illinois. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2005] Reference
Perry, though he has long left the dry rainless plain for somewhere tender. From Wordnik.com. [Calabash, The Third Day : Kwame Dawes : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
The outside air, after all those rainless months, was as dry as Prohibition. From Wordnik.com. [Smokescreen]
Summer proceeded hot and rainless, and sucked the water from unattended glasses. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Game] Reference
The farmers stopped cultivating the land as they went through the rainless years. From Wordnik.com. [Building Bridges and Business Through International Development] Reference
The rainless desert, or southeastern corner of our state, is the hottest region of all. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of California] Reference
Still another characteristic of the Plains is their tremendous rainless thunder-storms. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
Basins with no outlets drain into shallow playa lakes that dry up during rainless periods. From Wordnik.com. [Chihuahuan Semidesert Province (Bailey)] Reference
All day long a white, scintillating sun blazes out of a deep blue, rainless, cloudless sky. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Tibetans] Reference
But I am glad that this is impossible; that in the moral world there are no Andes, no rainless regions. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It was stifling hot in the dusty jungle, and there were always mutterings of faraway, rainless thunder. From Wordnik.com. [Burmese Days] Reference
Mean annual rainfall is less than 50 millimeters (mm), and several consecutive rainless years can occur. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian Oryx Sanctuary, Oman] Reference
The nobleman must have had diligent gardeners, to keep moss flourishing in the rainless summers of Allaxios. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
It is possible to collect a tiny amount of dew overnight even in a rainless desert, if you know how to do it. From Wordnik.com. [Umbrella Design Harvests Desert Moisture for Childrens’ Hospital] Reference
Trees and shrubs must withstand the severe summer drought -- 2 to 4 rainless months -- and severe evaporation. From Wordnik.com. [Mediterranean Division (Bailey)] Reference
The climate of the Sierras is beyond an adequate description: the beautiful summer days are mild and rainless. From Wordnik.com. [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference
It has never become endemic there, as it is a rainless country and generally too dry for the cholera germ to thrive. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 483, April 4, 1885] Reference
The dry weather came back; the thigh-high grass dried out completely and baked to a silver crisp in a rainless summer. From Wordnik.com. [The Thorn Birds]
In some regions there is a moderate amount of summer rainfall, while others may be nearly rainless during this period. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 4] Reference
This desert is a sparsely populated virtually rainless plateau, running east from the Pacific Ocean to the Andes Mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Atacama desert] Reference
The climate of the ecoregion is characterized by long, hot, rainless summers with northerly winds, often bringing sandstorms. From Wordnik.com. [Persian Gulf desert and semi-desert] Reference
It was only the mirage that tantalizes travellers in these scorched valleys, all the long eight months of the rainless season. From Wordnik.com. [Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern] Reference
Through the unglassed and unshuttered window, he can see the high, hazy gray clouds that promise yet another hot and rainless day. From Wordnik.com. [The Towers of the Sunset]
The grass was dry and bleached after an almost rainless autumn, but the sky was overcast and heavy with the foreshowing of change. From Wordnik.com. [A River So Long] Reference
He spoke of the trouble the long rainless spell (since broken) had caused, with only one good cut of hay rather than two or three. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Dorset] Reference
In regions enjoying relatively rainless springs or where agriculture depends on irrigation, this system may result in quality hay. From Wordnik.com. [Organic Gardener's Composting] Reference
March or April, for then we should have been likely to meet with pools of rain-water, which always dry up during the rainless winter. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Desert plants survive the long rainless periods with three main adaptive strategies: succulence, drought tolerance, and drought evasion. From Wordnik.com. [Adaptations of desert plants] Reference
Although fires can occur during any rainless period, most savannas burn at the end of the dry season, when conditions are most favorable. From Wordnik.com. [Trans Fly savanna and grasslands] Reference
Libya, the country is uninhabited, without water and without wild beasts, rainless and treeless, and there is no trace of moisture in it. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Herodotus] Reference
Trees planted years ago still produce green leaves, but strangely their roots have begun to reach out of the sand toward the rainless sky. From Wordnik.com. [There's a Famine in Chad] Reference
Its source was a mystery, and its annual rise in its rainless valley was so beneficent, that it was given the worship which belonged to the. From Wordnik.com. [Usury A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View] Reference
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