desert

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If we follow the analogy of the language, either French or English, it should be pronounced with the accent on the penult, Mount Désert, and not on the last syllable, as we sometimes hear it.

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)

La Fille aux Yeux d'Or and Une Passion dans le Désert have not the least need of their "indexable" qualities to validate them.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

We lingered for a moment at the narrow entrance to Le Désert, where the rushing river Guiers foams through the throttled gorge, giving barely room for the road scored along the lace of the cliff.

From The Princess Passes by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)

From No. 8 to No. 14 are the old canons' lodgings, where220 more of Jeanne's judges lived, and especially Canon Guillaume le Désert, who survived the trial longer than any of his companions.

From The Story of Rouen by Cook, Theodore Andrea, Sir

But the line of division at last adopted was that of the Montreal and Menominee rivers, by the way of Lake Vieux Désert.

From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold