Example Sentences

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They died around him every day; the fearless, fiery blood of France watered in ceaseless streams the arid, harvestless fields of northern Africa.

From Under Two Flags by Ouida

Loth, they obey'd him; and pass'd by the rim of the harvestless ocean, On to the Myrmidon tents and the black-hull'd ship of Peleides.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 by Various

The scene is a tawny desert, once sown to oases of flowers, and billowing grain, and stately palm-tree, and olive-groves, now harvestless, flowerless, palmless.

From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)

Homer calls the sea the barren, the harvestless!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 by Various