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• A feeling of loneliness now crept involuntarily over them which deepened by finding the desert bestrewed with bones bleached in the sun, of those who had probably been lost in this barren waste, and had perished with hunger and thirst. —  The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
• "Your land looks rather barren, and you have no houses That night while the people slept he caused birch, spruce, and cottonwood trees to spring up in the low places, and when the people awoke in the morning they clapped their hands in delight, for the birds were singing in the tree-tops and the green leaves with the sunlight flickering through them made it seem like a fairy land. —  A Treasury of Eskimo Tales
• We now entered another pine-barren, stretching away to the eastward, which must be crossed before we could reach the river. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• I knew that the Saint John River, in many places, consists of a chain of small lakelets, connected by a narrow stream; but of their position or extent I was very uncertain The next day found us wandering on across the pine-barren, as did the following, while the mist hung heavily over the country. —  In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting
• His apology for the present work is ingenious The richness of the ground is gone and spent Men's brains grow barren, and you raise the rent Ibid. A collection of about thirty letters are addressed, for the most part, to the fair sex, and sparkle with wit and gallantry. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2 No 4, October, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

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