Noun

(en noun)

* {{quote-book, year=1591, author=Edmund Spenser, title=The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=So thou both here and there immortall art, And everie where through excellent desart . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1786, author=Boswell, title=Life Of Johnson, Volume 5, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Probably he had been thinking of the whole of the simile in Cato , of which that is the concluding line; the sandy desart had struck him so strongly. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1871, author=James Fenimore Cooper, title=Wyandotte, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=We are like people on a desart island, out here in the wilderness--and if ships won't arrive to tell us how matters come on, we must send one out to l'arn it for us. }}