Example Sentences

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We sailed for some hours along a lava coast, streamless, rainless, verdureless, blazing under the fierce light of a tropical sun, and some time after noon anchored in the scorching bay of Kawaihae.

From The Hawaiian Archipelago by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)

Now suddenly I dropped to the level of nature unadorned, down to the ugly unkempt lanes I knew so well, back to the pungent realities of the streamless plain.

From A Son of the Middle Border by Garland, Hamlin

Indeed, the traveller in this territory of the Mayas is rarely out of sight of crumbling pyramid or temple, as he traverses the dense forests of these curious flat and streamless limestone regions.

From Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development by Hume, Martin

Now when the swords stood thick and white As the mace reeds stand in the streamless bight, There rose a man on the mound alone And over his head was the grey mail done.

From Poems By The Way & Love Is Enough by Morris, William

For there she lieth, like a streamless river That stagnates in its bed.

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew