Barren Lands
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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He has lived a chapped and manly life in rural Ontario, on the Keewatin Barren Lands and in balky old boats off Newfoundland.
From Time Magazine Archive
Practicing this counsel of perfection, he wandered purposefully to Mexico, California, Alaska, the Barren Lands north of Hudson Bay, the centre of Africa, Siberia, South America, Burma.
From Time Magazine Archive
"That is a bit of the Barren Lands that creeps down between those mountains off there, M'seur," he said.
From The Danger Trail by Curwood, James Oliver
Indian hunters came tramping in from the Barren Lands with toboggan loads of pelts drawn by half-wild husky dogs.
From Pathfinders of the West Being the Thrilling Story of the Adventures of the Men Who Discovered the Great Northwest: Radisson, La Vérendrye, Lewis and Clark by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
They went north—far north, above the Barren Lands, and the curse followed there.
From The Honor of the Big Snows by Curwood, James Oliver
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