Barren Lands
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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 Curwood, James Oliver
And long before the twilight hours of sleep they were sweeping out ahead of him in all their glory--the Barren Lands of the map-makers, his paradise.
From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver
The Barren Lands were bare but for an occasional oasis of trees like an island of refuge in a shelterless sea.
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)
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