barrenest

Only James adds: "Even late in life some thaw, some release may take place, some bolt be shot back in the barrenest breast, and the man's hard heart may soften and break into religious feelings."

William James, part 4: The psychology of conversion Mark Vernon 2010

Those who live here know how to avoid the sun, find food, and even water in this barrenest of lands.

One Night in Scotland Karen Hawkins 2010

She was much given to the carrying about of small bags with snaps to them, that went off like little pistols when they were shut up; and when full – dressed, she wore round her neck the barrenest of lockets, representing a fishy old eye, with no approach to speculation in it.

Dombey and Son 2007

"If it were not," he writes, "for that sort of pleasure which results from the discovery even of the barrenest spot upon the globe, this coast of New Holland would not have charmed me much."

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

The first is, that we chuse the North, for the main Store-House of the Kingdom, where we have not only the barrenest

A Dialogue Between Dean Swift and Tho. Prior, Esq. In the Isles of St. Patrick's Church, Dublin, On that Memorable Day, October 9th, 1753 Anonymous

The former belong to magical superstition -- the barrenest of all aberrations of the savage imagination -- which, being founded only on fear, acts merely as a bar to progress and an impediment to the free use of nature by human energy and industry.

Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926

QUOTATION: The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

Quotations 1919

The barrenest of all mortals is the Sentimentalist.

Paras. 1-19 1909

We live here in a very dull town, every valuable creature absent, and Cad says he is weary of it, and would rather prefer his coffee on the barrenest mountain in Wales than be king here.

All About Coffee 1909

A few acres of the barrenest land in the whole archipelago -- and the fellow talked as though he were being dispossessed of an Eden!

Major Vigoureux Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903