barrens

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When we finished our lunch the barrens were already wrapping themselves in a dim, blue dusk and falling upon rest in dell and dingle.

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  • But once the forest began to encroach on the pukpuk barrens, the burns began. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Away beyond are the barrens, and rivers of no name, and then the Polar Sea, and the country where only the white bear and the musk ox live. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • Tundra and barrens, a land of stunted spruce men cut and drew away. —  The Shipping News
  • She was seeking her mother through endlessly interlinked rooms filled with Victorian furniture As Bremen crossed the pine barrens, the images of the dreams slid between the evening shadows of reality. —  Prayers to Broken Stones
  • His afternoon excursions into the barrens were merely a ruse to mislead the other miners. —  AHMM,April2008
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