How often, gliding by in barrenness, has it cast a shade of unutterable dejection on the dial of a sunless day. From Wordnik.com. [Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times] Reference
Now, much of the so-called barrenness of country life is the oak minus the polish. From Wordnik.com. [Chapters in Rural Progress] Reference
The infinite lavish fulness of the present quite laughed at the idea of barrenness or want anywhere in time to come. From Wordnik.com. [The End of a Coil] Reference
Thus Italy is very poor in annals, a barrenness which is attributed to the lack of speculative and theological interests in the country. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize] Reference
Young women who are very fat are cold and prone to barrenness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
For all that I have said about the barrenness of these great moors. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
The summer bounty hid the castle; the winter barrenness revealed it!. From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Then upon the earth did there come dearth and drought and barrenness. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
They are illustrations of barrenness dependent on different circumstances. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
The first is the only form of barrenness which responds readily to treatment. From Wordnik.com. [The Veterinarian] Reference
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms The Challoner Revision] Reference
The immediate impression that the boys received was one of cave-like barrenness. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
These two things shall come upon thee suddenly in one day, barrenness and widowhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
As I drove over the road to the club, the bleak barrenness of the country struck me anew. From Wordnik.com. [32 Caliber] Reference
Away with all the false notions that are circulating about the barrenness of this country. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
The poverty, barrenness, unevenness of this part of the country perhaps was never surpassed. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819] Reference
'I don't think the children were prepared for the barrenness and dreariness of an English winter. From Wordnik.com. [Bulbs and Blossoms] Reference
(O) Certain temperamental conditions may be associated with barrenness: lack of affinity, frigidity. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
If married before the age of twenty the statistics prove that barrenness exists in one woman in every twelve. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
(N) Certain diseases may be associated with barrenness: cancer, diabetes, consumption, Bright's disease, etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Utne seems to have tapped a deep wellspring of loathing for the intellectual barrenness of many American cities. From Wordnik.com. [Talk About My Generation] Reference
There are, however, very few causes of barrenness that cannot be removed when the patient is perfectly developed. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
The children of thy barrenness shall still say in thy ears: The place is too strait for me, make me room to dwell in. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
The barrenness may be dependent upon some physical defect which will quickly respond to the proper medical treatment. From Wordnik.com. [The Eugenic Marriage, Vol 2 (of 4) A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies] Reference
Another reason why barrenness is disgraceful, is, that it is considered to be brought on by incontinence or wilful abortions. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3)] Reference
It will be found a great relief in both health and sickness, and in many cases cure barrenness and other diseases of the womb. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
People like you have come to that place in the road where you know intuitively that too much 'me,' brings with it spiritual barrenness. From Wordnik.com. [Dr. Cara Barker: Love Is Not a Spectator Sport] Reference
But if not metalliferous, much of the parish is exceptionally fertile and verdant, in contrast to the barrenness of the Goonhilly Downs. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
On the instant of offering hospitality to this dainty new friend, and acute perception of the barrenness of it overswept and dismayed her. From Wordnik.com. [Glory and the Other Girl] Reference
Until then, lower bushes, more water and garden-like areas that offer respite from the barrenness and heat of the Mall are entirely welcome. From Wordnik.com. [On the National Museum of African American History and Culture: A little green around the edges] Reference
What city, after its destruction, was sown with salt, as a sign of the barrenness and desolation that its enemies wished to see come upon it?. From Wordnik.com. [Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young] Reference
Active brain and toiling hands had won from mother earth rich stores and transformed the apparent barrenness of the ground convenient to where. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
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