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The riverless island has always depended for her water supply on rain.

From Time Magazine Archive

The town of Palo Alto is situated in the Santa Clara Valley—a riverless area of bottomland lying between San Francisco bay and the Santa Cruz range.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard

In the sandy, rocky and riverless islands the natives are content with surface-water when deep wells might easily be sunk.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

The shallow upland valleys, moorland with their intense summer sun and the riverless, boggy behaviour of the water breed the pest inevitably.

From Sea and Sardinia by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

The region of the east and south is a level and uniform expanse, consisting for the most part of the riverless but fertile plain of Beauce, sometimes called 901 the “granary of France.”

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various