Usage examples for oasis:

• " Yes, indeed," replied the Arab sadly; " on a distant oasis there dwells my aged father and my blooming bride. "The Two Captains" – Friedrich de La Motte-Fouque

• Let us try to reach them; perhaps we shall see the oasis as we go." "Queen Sheba's Ring" – H. Rider Haggard

• Andrews Creek was not more than a mile from Medora, and after the day's work was done, the cowboys naturally adjourned with much enthusiasm to that oasis for the thirsty. "Roosevelt in the Bad Lands" – Hermann Hagedorn

• The air was oppressive, the wind blew hot from the desert, and shoals of tiny green birds were chattering before roosting in the oasis of tall date palms that cast long shadows over the sun- baked stones of the Place du Gouvernement at Algiers. "The Great War in England in 1897" – William Le Queux