barrener

The country under Sofaid-Koh presents a long strip of cultivation, with many villages: hills barrener than ever, chiefly limestone.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Here, indeed, was a man on whom his fellows might lean, a man in whom the generation of spiritual force was so strong and continuous that it overflowed of necessity into the poorer, barrener lives around him, kindling and enriching.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

Here, indeed, was a man on whom his fellows might lean, a man in whom the generation of spiritual force was so strong and continuous that it overflowed of necessity into the poorer, barrener lives around him, kindling and enriching.

Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885

The lonely shores were yellow with drought; the islands grew wilder and barrener; the course of the river was for miles at a stretch through country which gave no signs of human life.

Complete March Family Trilogy William Dean Howells 1878

The lonely shores were yellow with drought; the islands grew wilder and barrener; the course of the river was for miles at a stretch through country which gave no signs of human life.

Their Wedding Journey William Dean Howells 1878

You could not conceive how anything could be barrener than these serrated outlines, or gloomier than these shattered mountains -- until you looked at the plain that encircled them.

All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866

By day engrossing deeds and copying long-winded papers, about the quarrels and wrongs of Mr.A. and Mr.B. – and at night digging into parchment-covered books, a dryer and barrener soil than any near Wut-a-qut-o or on the old mountain itself, and which must nevertheless be digged into for certain dry and musty fruits of knowledge to be fetched out of them.

The Hills of the Shatemuc 1856

By day engrossing deeds and copying long-winded papers, about the quarrels and wrongs of Mr.A. and Mr.B. -- and at night digging into parchment-covered books, a dryer and barrener soil than any near Wut-a-qut-o or on the old mountain itself, and which must nevertheless be digged into for certain dry and musty fruits of knowledge to be fetched out of them.

Hills of the Shatemuc Susan Warner 1852

In a word, he is a pest and a monster; greedier than the sea, and barrener than the shore; a scandal to religion, and an exception from common humanity; and upon no other account fit to live in this world, but to be made an example of God's justice in the next.

Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. III. 1634-1716 1823

a beautiful object, Rhododendron minus ceases with the barrener tracts.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith