It had become an entrenched camp, lying silent, sullen, verdureless, under a gray sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference

Huron lovers reside, and the frozen and verdureless heath appointed to the cowards of all the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference

The whole island is but a verdureless sand-drift, of which the outlines are constantly changing under the influence of winds and waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference

Owing to causes which we need not explain, rain is almost unknown; the consequence is, the coast presents a dreary, verdureless, forbidding appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prehistoric World; or, Vanished races] Reference

But for some reason or other, the last of the echoes was the loudest, and the name came back to him as clearly as he had spoken it, from a hill of verdureless rocks some two thousand yards distant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boy Nihilist or, Young America in Russia] Reference

Far away across the Wonsits Tiravu rose the red cliff land up and up to the eastern sky; behind was the great bulk of Trumbull, together with scores of the smooth, verdureless heaps of volcanic cinders.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference

The surrounding plains were endless and verdureless.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains] Reference

We try to analyze the satisfaction there is in such a bald, treeless, verdureless mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

High hills, verdureless and enfiladed with dark canadas, cast their gaunt shadows on the tide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers] Reference

Baku looks the inartistic, business-like place it is, occupying the base of brown, verdureless hills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

After a dozen miles the country develops into barren wastes, as dreary and verdureless as the deserts of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

The hitherto verdureless land bears the green flush of vegetation; and there are creeping things among the trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

Five and one-twentieth miles over a rough, red, and verdureless country brought us to the Rio Puerco of the West.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captured by the Navajos] Reference

Yet where winds blow over verdureless surfaces the effect of the sand which they sweep before them is often considerable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Outlines of the Earth's History A Popular Study in Physiography] Reference

These reft and splintered crags stand, the dreary images of patient sorrow, existing verdureless and stern because exist they must.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2] Reference

At other points were gray, verdureless slopes and rocky buttes, or saline mud-flats that looked like the old bed of some ancient sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

Mountains, beyond the circumscribed area of cultivation about the villages, is that of a desert, desolate, verdureless, and forbidding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

They prospered under his hands, and he also prospered, for next to gold, vegetables were highly prized in that dry, almost verdureless country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

None of us had seen this miserable, desolate country, treeless and verdureless, which the railway was now crossing on its road to the northeast.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of a Special Correspondent] Reference

This is the Annamite cemetery, and the mournful appearance of the scene is increased by the treeless and almost verdureless character of the landscape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference

Situated where it can derive the most benefit from these streams is the village of Sherifabad, and beyond Sherifabad stretches a verdureless waste to Aivan-i-Kaif.    From Wordnik.com.  [Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama] Reference

North and east great barren sun-beat plains stretch their verdureless wastes, intersected by ranges of sterile hills, both extending into the neighbouring States of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development] Reference

They are not expected to give even the doubts that may suggest themselves, but are required to walk in the narrow, verdureless path trodden by the ignorance of the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cynical-C Blog] Reference

For the first half hour, the water was smooth and swift, sweeping between walls that were abrupt and verdureless and offered not so much as a finger hold for a landing place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Enchanted Canyon] Reference

Oahu in the distance, a group of grey, barren peaks rising verdureless out of the lonely sea, was not an exception to the rule that the first sight of land is a disappointment.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference

Sometimes, in the glens, we came upon luxuriant orchards of figs, apricots, pomegranates, and such things, but oftener the scenery was rugged, mountainous, verdureless and forbidding.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Innocents Abroad] Reference

Along the sides occasional shade-trees stifled, and beyond these gaunt, verdureless fields widened away, though we were told that in the spring the fields were red with flowers and green with young wheat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Familiar Spanish Travels] Reference

On one side, the land sloped to the valley of the Mismit, utilized for the sheep farming; and across the river, or run, rose grassy fields, climbing one above another till they ended in rocky, verdureless soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dorothy on a Ranch] Reference

Vert, "however, is a misnomer; for though seated at the foot of a steep mountain, it is not green, but sterile, rocky, and verdureless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Huguenots in France] Reference

Herbless and verdureless; low swampy moss.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference

A bald, treeless, verdureless mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saunterings] Reference

Maaleia, a neck of sandy, scorched, verdureless soil, and at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference