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These desert storms take up from the verdureless earth great quantities of sand and other fine débris, which often so clouds the air as to bring the darkness of night at midday.

From Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography by Shaler, Nathaniel Southgate

The air was clear and the verdureless shapes of the monstrous peaks stood sharp as steel against the sky.

From They of the High Trails by Garland, Hamlin

Nothing but savage, awful precipices of naked granite, snowy fields, and verdureless wastes!

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

It had become an entrenched camp, lying silent, sullen, verdureless, under a gray sky.

From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 by Various

These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.

From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Stowe, Harriet Beecher