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
What fool had given to it the name of Barren Lands?
From The Alaskan by Curwood, James Oliver
"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
An expedition through the Barren Lands of northern Canada.
From The Barren Ground Caribou of Keewatin by Harper, Francis
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