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North African desert that is the largest in the world (3.5 million square miles - 7 times larger than the next largest desert and almost as large as the entire USA).- ON February 13, 1960, France tested a nuclear weapon in the Sahara.John Hersey -- Hiroshima
- She felt the thirst of the Sahara and called out for water.Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
- "Even if I have to live in the deserts of the Sahara, I need her eyes open; I won't be able to live without her.Malala Yousafzai -- I Am Malala
- I see Bedouins in the Sahara and the French Foreign Legion, cowboys on the American prairie.Frank McCourt -- Angela's Ashes
- But what did Psyollos expect, planting crops at the edge of the Sahara?Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
- 'Desert of Sahara,' sighed another.Johann Wyss -- The Swiss Family Robinson
- Perhaps you will think it passing strange this regret for a savage who was no more account than a grain of sand in a black Sahara.Joseph Conrad -- Heart of Darkness
- The gushing fountains which sparkle in the sun, must not be stopped in mere caprice; the oasis in the desert of Sahara must not be plucked up idly.'Charles Dickens -- David Copperfield
- Archie asked, getting down to business without preliminaries, keeping his voice flat and dry as the Sahara.Robert Cormier -- The Chocolate War
- If we don't get burped to death by the cows we'll end up like the Sahara Desert, says my father cheerfully, finishing up the meatloaf.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- Everybody cheered because, otherwise, we would have had a lesson on the Sahara Desert.Sharon M. Draper -- Out of My Mind
- On the edge of the Sahara we ran into a plague of locusts and the chauffeur explained kindly that they were bumble-bees.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night
- CHRIS HUNTINGTON has worked in France and Taiwan and has taught English in the Sahara and Gabon for the Peace Corps.Jay Allison, et al. -- This I Believe II
- But black-faced Mount Zion, across the tracks in Texana, North Carolina, was as different as the Rocky Mountains are from the Sahara.Peter Jenkins -- A Walk Across America
- Once she had seen a band of nomad robbers in the Sahara, and somehow was reminded of them by this motley outlaw troop.Zane Grey -- The Light of Western Stars
- I was thinking of heading to the Sahara kickoff thing.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- I'll do anything if you'll let me stop a bit, for it's as dull as the Desert of Sahara down there.Louisa May Alcott -- Little Women
- It resembled the fearful phenomenon of a similar character known to the travelers in the desert of the great Sahara.Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
- "You have to cross the entire Sahara desert," said the young man.Paulo Coelho -- The Alchemist
- And in general it's all quite pointless-writing, Sahara, and all that.Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
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