Frank Herbert saga

Usage examples of dune.

There were still some addax antelope down in the dunes, but mostly the local sheiks had sportingly shot them out, using high-powered rifles with telescopic sights from the backs of Land Rovers.

Saul walked out from the top of a dune on to the surface of an aqueduct that rose twenty-five feet above the sand and stretched for miles towards the cluster of ruins and new buildings near the sea.

The sun was getting lower in the southwest, throwing the intricate shadows of their aqueduct farther across the dunes.

Never, in anything that had happened to him, had Bunning been so terrified as he had been by this visit to Dune.

We will delve into the most ancient records, into the very myths of Dune, into the time of the Great Revolt, more commonly known as the Butlerian Jihad.

Le Coq, on the other hand, is in that part of the dune country which has least historical interest, and is chiefly known as the place where the Royal Golf Club de Belgique has its course.

My whole future depended on getting my diabetic ecology equalized within the shifting sand dunes of my bodily functions.

Lawrence looked straight down, he could see nothing but dunes of slick auburn mud, their crests dusted white.

The dunes and hills came and went, colorless and enlarged by the veils of fog: Sunlight struck bright on the body of Orm Embar, magnificent in death.

The Euphonic Mountains were more rugged than the dunes they had just crossed, but not enough for his tastes.

Dogtails and Hard Fescue, Fiorin and Clover, not to mention Smooth-stalked Meadow Grass and Perennial Rye Grass grew where it had no business to grow at all thrusting through the cobblestones of the streets, choking the harbors and running riot across the dunes of Ostend and Scheveningen.

She looked back toward the sand dunes, possibly for a sight of the old fishwife, but no one was in view.

A little later, when school began for Eduard Amsel, it was Herr Olschewski, the young schoolmaster in Nickelswalde -- for Schiewenhorst did not maintain a school -- who was obliged to stand still when his freckliest pupil planted him, insubstantial as a scarecrow, on the great dune to the right of the river mouth.

Haynes had postulated that the dune seas of this world had tides and movements, exhalations and fumaroles that hinted at mysteries far beneath the surface.

When Jesse finished, the planetary ecologist stared at the chamber wall, his gaze distant, as if his imagination was roaming across the dunes to rich spice fields and worm sands, to gasping fumaroles and hidden tunnels beneath the desert, running like blue veins through a living planet.