We are told that there are rainless zones on the earth and regions of everlasting summer: it is hard to believe that the dwellers in such places can ever think a new thought or do a new thing.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
He wanted to shake from his feet for ever this dry dust of the rainless west coast.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Aden, the important peninsula commanding the entrance of the Red Sea, now held and fortified by England, is situated in a rainless zone, so that the inhabitants see no fall of that invaluable element sometimes for two years together, though when it does visit them it comes in floods.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou