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
Heming, the artist who accompanied Mr. Whitney in his journey towards the Barren Lands, and the data may be accepted as correct, as they were secured from the Hudson Bay officials.
From Klondyke Nuggets A Brief Description of the Great Gold Regions in the Northwest by Joseph Francis Ladue
A second expedition through the Barren Lands of northern Canada.
From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Francis Harper
In all this great country between here and the Barren Lands, where the musk-ox lives, there is not one Indian in a hundred who would steal another Indian's trap, or the game in it.
From The Gold Hunters A Story of Life and Adventure in the Hudson Bay Wilds by James Oliver Curwood
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