Meanwhile, in treeless Isengard, the evil wizard Saruman uses his own orcs to generate the wealth he uses to support his pipe-weed habit. From Wordnik.com. [Workers of Middle-earth, unite!] Reference
This was in a wide, treeless, trackless wilderness. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
Still rough -- like those which men in treeless plains. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference
We feel pity for the people who live in treeless deserts. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
Well, they say, how about the prairies that are treeless?. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 13th Annual Meeting Rochester, N.Y. September, 7, 8 and 9, 1922] Reference
Both streets suddenly disappeared in a sandy, treeless plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
The wattle will readily grow on the treeless plains of Texas, New. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
The land, more broken and treeless, seemed very wonderful to them. From Wordnik.com. [Short Stories of Various Types] Reference
Behind lay the treeless pasture; in front the bank fell away steeply. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
They rode off through a deep forest, and then across a wide, treeless plain. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur and His Knights] Reference
In the treeless desert, Iraq's troops could be exposed to relentless aerial pounding. From Wordnik.com. [Air Power Faces Its Biggest Test] Reference
Over the first rise of the hills was a long dreary waste -- treeless, awesome, desolate. From Wordnik.com. [The McBrides A Romance of Arran] Reference
To the right and down the river a treeless bank extended, devoid of wharves and buildings. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
Because of the high altitude, it was like a desolate moonscape: treeless, grassy and rocky. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Fogwell: A Dizzying Drive Over Switzerland's Furka Pass] Reference
CA's headquarters is a huge glass-box tower, rising starkly from what used to be treeless farmland. From Wordnik.com. [No Sex, Just Sales] Reference
The high plateaus are generally treeless, but are covered with such shrubs as greasewood and sage-brush. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
It thrives in desolate, treeless, barren grounds, not even being driven from its haunts by the extremest cold. From Wordnik.com. [The Tree-Dwellers] Reference
The country is naturally treeless, except for the tamarisk, which grows by the swamps and along the river-beds. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
Carnac ranged in their eleven lines, on a treeless plain, the Morbihan, and the long dreary peninsula of Quiberon. From Wordnik.com. [Brittany & Its Byways] Reference
The Spokane River divides the great treeless plain on the south from the timbered mountainous country to the north. From Wordnik.com. [Life at Puget Sound: With Sketches of Travel in Washington Territory, British Columbia, Oregon and California] Reference
The heat was wavering up from the treeless, shrubless expanse; the white sun was over it as hot as a furnace blast. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Still farther to the east, they could make out irregular elevations on the plain, which appeared to be treeless ridges. From Wordnik.com. [On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland] Reference
From the top one of the ridges such as billowed like swells of the sea that gray-green, treeless plain, Morgan looked back. From Wordnik.com. [Trail's End] Reference
Nebraska route will be more monotonous, running across the level and treeless valley of the Platte for three hundred miles. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
It stands in the midst of a desert -- a dusty, treeless plain covered with sparse low sage brush and enclosed by rocky ridges. From Wordnik.com. [South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899] Reference
On passing out from the suburbs of the town, charmingly embowered in fruit orchards, we struck across the open, treeless plain. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
There need be no complaint just here that Cornwall is treeless, though beyond and above the land stretches unwooded and desolate. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Thus they came out upon the edge of the barrens, a vast, treeless country which few care to penetrate during the snows of winter. From Wordnik.com. [Followers of the Trail] Reference
It is difficult to understand why the town has been built so far from the mountains, situated as it is on a sandy, treeless plain. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
Compared with treeless, brown, arid Omdurman, Khartoum wore an air of romance and loveliness that well became such historic ground. From Wordnik.com. [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference
The road from Point Isabel to Matamoras is over an open, rolling, treeless prairie, until the timber that borders the bank of the Rio. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
The scenery along its shores, low and treeless in the eastern part, elsewhere is mountainous and heavily wooded -- mainly with beech. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Luckily there were many boulders scattered along the grassy treeless slope they had to advance across to reach the foot of the cliff. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
Photos from that time show steep-roofed, austere buildings clustered around central courts and surrounded by flat, largely treeless lots. From Wordnik.com. [Where We Live: Fairlington, in Northern Virginia] Reference
As one drives over the State it is evident that many farmers practice "clean" agriculture which means clean fence rows and treeless fields. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Wooster, Ohio, September 3, 4, 5, 1946] Reference
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