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Then did he bare his white fangs and shake his muscled arms and cry out vengeance against the desert-born enemies of his forest tribe.

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Travel by water was not in the heritage of their desert-born people, and the first experience of the deck of a boat shifting beneath one's feet was as strange as free-fall.

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On the other hand Nophaie is the soul Grey would like to be: primitive, instinctual, desert-born, a scholar, athlete, distinguished war veteran-Native American to the core.

Zane Grey, Romancing the West May, Stephen J. 1997

The meekest of the desert-born would have felt compelled to respond.

The Fire In His Hands Cook, Glen 1984

For five hundred years, or perhaps close to a thousand now no one could rightly say when the first Apache clan had come questing into this territory these canyons and sand wastes, valleys and mesas had been dominated by a tough, desert-born breed who could travel and fight, and live off bleakness no other race dared face without supplies laboriously transported.

Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959

Another specimen of the desert-born, the Western Indian, forms an exhibit as little suited as the improved Arab horse to discussion and award at a session fraught with that "calm contemplation and poetic ease" which ought to mark the deliberations of the judges.

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Ah! The first tribesman to reach the level of the window gave an exultant yell, as though he saw his foe already within his grasp; and on that shout of triumph his desert-born soul was sped to whatever haven awaited it.

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All he does is to stain his eyebrows dark, put on the clothes, and cease to resemble anything on earth except a desert-born Arab.

The Lion of Petra Talbot Mundy 1909

Abe Lee he measured by the standing of his own school-trained engineering friends, demanding that the desert-born and desert - trained surveyor exhibit all the hall-marks of Boston.

The Winning of Barbara Worth Harold Bell Wright 1908

Ninette was a desert-born beauty like her Indian mother, but gray-eyed like her Normandy father, a sweet girl of sixteen, the belle of her set.

Animal Heroes Ernest Thompson Seton 1903