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
What fool had given to it the name of Barren Lands?
From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver
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
The very moss of the Barren Lands may yet prove to be of value, and be shipped to England as a fertilizer.
From Through the Mackenzie Basin A Narrative of the Athabasca and Peace River Treaty Expedition of 1899 by Mair, Charles
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