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Switzerland, the bold rocks and rich though narrow valleys of the frontiers of Toorkisth [= a] n offer all the charms of novelty; the lower ranges of hills are gloomy and shrubless, contrasting strikingly with the dazzling, yet distant splendour of the snowy mountains.

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

Tartary, where it is most commonly found in the shrubless plains; in form it is a miniature of the kangaroo, to which in some of its peculiarities it bears a close resemblance, though in size it is very little larger than our common English rat.

A Peep into Toorkisthhan Rollo Gillespie Burslem

The heat was wavering up from the treeless, shrubless expanse; the white sun was over it as hot as a furnace blast.

Trail's End George W. Ogden

Rapidly traversing the shrubless, herbless plains of Mesopotamia, they reached at length the town of Mosul, the point from which travellers proceed to visit the ruins of Nineveh.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

She had conceived of a barren desolate waste, shrubless and treeless; and she saw grassy hillocks, leafy copses, and even, as she thought, patches of dwarfish woods.

The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Anonymous

It was the edge of a great open, a bit of the Barren that reached down like a solitary finger from the North: treeless, shrubless, the playground of the foxes and the storm winds.

God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

It was the edge of a great open, a bit of the Barren that reached down like a solitary finger from the North: treeless, shrubless, the playground of the foxes and the storm winds.

God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

It was the edge of a great open, a bit of the Barren that reached down like a solitary finger from the North: treeless, shrubless, the playground of the foxes and the storm winds.

God's Country—And the Woman James Oliver Curwood 1903

On the treeless, shrubless prairie one could see the flag miles away, as it rose like a faint fleck of pink against the green of the prairie beyond or the blue sky above.

The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota Hamlin Garland 1900

What do the birds find to eat in these treeless and shrubless altitudes?

Birds of the Rockies 1896