What is "dryland"

Usage examples of "dryland".

Stark recognized the long-legged brutes of the Dryland breed, and as he left a caravan passed him, coming in, with a jangling of bronze bangles and a great hissing and stamping in the dust.

They go hungry and thirsty, while the City-States along the Dryland border hog all the water sources and grow fat.

Its orbit was highly eccentric, causing seasons the monks had found too severe for any sort of dryland life.

Where once there had been pockets of dryland farms, now there were pockets of cattle range.

That was half of the one hundred and sixty acres entitled for homestead, and the only part that was productive at any one time under the dryland method of farming.

Harve Wessel had carefully chosen the place for his lecture on the dryland method of wheat farming.

Still, his gaze swept past the dryland farmer and his horse-drawn plow to follow the trail of newly turned earth until he found its starting point.

Even the shadow of the rocks made Rohana think more of snakes and scorpions than cool, inviting rest, but it was better than the burning glare of the Dryland sun at midday.

She had not even asked any further questions about her home, about their kin, about what lay ahead when they should leave the Dryland country and return to the Domains.

And with that clue to guide him he presently began to catch other syllables which were remotely like syllables from the dryland speech.

They walked through dryland grasses that rustled against their legs like whispers of the land.

Ridenow lived at the very borders of the Dry Towns and were of Dry-town blood, and while they did not follow Dryland customs and chain their women, they did keep them in somewhat greater seclusion than most of the mountain Domains.

Lake Fret revert to prairie, thereby costing the company a fortune for a new air or dryland freighting system.

When he reached the end of the cultivated fields, he pulled off his boots, meant mostly for protection against the stones and brambles of the dryland, fastened them to his belt, and substituted a pair of woven rush sandals he kept with Nera.

Apollo 18, including the Australians, Madagascans, Spaniards, Guamanians, Antiguans and Ascension Islanders who manned stations at their various locations, was a crew-cut Colorado farm boy from the little village of Buckingham in the drylands.