Great Indian Desert

noun

1. another name for the Thar Desert

Example Sentences

He breathes on the Earth and one place "became the great Indian Desert, and the other became the Desert of Sahara, and", Kipling says, "you can look them out on the map."

From The Guardian

There may be desolation in the great Indian Desert to the westward, and there is desolation on the open seas; but the desolation of Amber is beyond the loneliness either of land or sea.

From Project Gutenberg

For a night and a day they knew their surroundings; and for a night and a day, skirting the edge of the great Indian Desert on a narrow-gauge line, they remembered how in the days of their apprenticeship they had come by that road from Bombay.

From Project Gutenberg

The Aravalli Hills traverse the S., while the Thar or Great Indian Desert occupies the N. and W. Jodhpur is the largest of the native territories, and the Rajputs, a proud and warlike people are the dominant race in many of the States.

From Project Gutenberg

Then I headed for the Great Indian Desert upon the proper date, as I had promised, and the night Mail set me down at Marwar Junction, where a funny little, happy-go-lucky, native-managed railway runs to Jodhpore.

From Project Gutenberg