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
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
Caribou herds in Barren Lands, 255; Indian method of hunting, 259.
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)
I know about that crazy trip of his'n to the Barren Lands, after musk-ox.
From The Last of the Plainsmen by Grey, Zane
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