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It was the edge of a great open, a bit of the Barren that reached down like a solitary finger from the North: treeless, shrubless, the playground of the foxes and the storm winds.

From God's Country—And the Woman by Curwood, James Oliver

Perchance her feet, with furry buskins graced, May shuddering walk the cold Canadian waste, And rest contented with a bleak repose In shrubless climes of never-thawing snows.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, January 1844 Volume 23, Number 1 by Various

But Reuben and Jane saw only the desolate rocks, and treeless, shrubless, almost--it seemed to them--grassless fields, and an unutterable sense of gloom came over them.

From Saxe Holm's Stories by Jackson, Helen Hunt

On the treeless, shrubless prairie one could see the flag miles away, as it rose like a faint fleck of pink against the green of the prairie beyond or the blue sky above.

From The Moccasin Ranch A Story of Dakota by Garland, Hamlin

Vice ever lurks among the fogs and shrubless rabbit-warrens of mid-London.

From Helena Brett's Career by Coke, Desmond