Example Sentences

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Here were the wreathed and fantastic shapes she remembered too well, the wildly tossed, the bare and herbless rocks.

From Baron Bruno Or, the Unbelieving Philosopher, and Other Fairy Stories by Morgan, Louisa

On leafless grove and herbless lawn Warm lie the yellow beams of moon; 311Yet winter is not gone.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

They gained the herbless ploughed field and took their station in its center just as the flames darted round on each side of them.

From Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" by Fowler, William Worthington

The world was void: The populous and powerful was a lump, Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless; A lump of death, a chaos of hard clay.

From The Cave in the Mountain A Sequel to In the Pecos Country / by Lieut. R. H. Jayne by Ellis, Edward Sylvester

The flies on the other hand began their attacks at early dawn, and whether we were in dense brush, on the open plain, or the herbless mountain top, they were equally numerous and equally troublesome.

From Expedition into Central Australia by Sturt, Charles