| 单词 | barrenness |
| 例句 | The barrenness of Stamps was exactly what I wanted, without will or consciousness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And when I brooded upon the cultural barrenness of black life, I wondered if clean, positive tenderness, love, honor, loyalty, and the capacity to remember were native with man. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z For weeks after, I arrived early, left late and tried very hard to make up for her barrenness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Deborah, black, her body as shapeless and hard as iron, looked on with veiled, triumphant eyes, cursing the Florence who had mocked her in her pain and barrenness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Given the barrenness of the terrain, he may stand a little taller.” Eliot Spitzer?s Long Road to Redemption 2010-04-07T22:51:00Z I wonder if the belief itself will be enough to end the barrenness. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z She mentioned other influences in this “polyglot nation,” not least its landscape: “its exciting strange contrasts of barrenness and fertility — its great sweep of distances — its monstrous architecture — and the divine machinery of invention.” Review: In Megan Pugh’s ‘America Dancing,’ a Focus on Where the Moves Came From 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z And given the barrenness of the landscape, and of the subject matter, that's a lot to ask. 'Empty Quarter': A movie about nothingness 2011-04-07T19:09:04Z The title of the episode, "Menses," announces that this installment is about cycles -- cycles of fertility and barrenness, of life and death. "Rescue Me" recap: Season 7, Episode 2: "Menses" 2011-07-21T14:30:00Z She rebooted by reading, and being with friends, so that, “When I put something out again, it’s from a place of fullness, rather than barrenness.” Zoe Kazan: ‘There’s so much sexual harassment on set' 2017-07-08T04:00:00Z When emissaries from Israel visited Villanueva’s congregation, they were aghast at the barrenness of the place: dirt floors, no plumbing, a windowless, roofless temple lit by candles. One Man and His Followers Sought Salvation. Did It Exist? 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z The Woman rustles awake, distressed by the barrenness of the reality she encounters. Review: A Powerful Opera of Eastern and Western Allure 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z He asks God, in his mercy, to take away her barrenness and make her fertile. How I met my real father 2010-05-22T23:01:00Z Standing on its own, the last line declares the final barrenness, and saint-like perfection, of her extinction. Poem of the week: St Brenhilda on Sula Sgeir by David Wheatley 2010-12-13T12:26:00Z Elsewhere, Aqua's evil genius lay in crafting hyper-idiotic songs that revelled in their own emotional barrenness, before watching the world's nine-year-olds take them at face value. Is this the most depressing Europop anthem of all time? 2010-05-06T14:20:00Z Meghan Raham’s set deliberately cramps the actors in a grubby little wedge of a room, with plenty of American West barrenness outside. ‘Fool for Love’ at Round House, taking the edge off Shepard Except for those weird outcrops, barrenness lay in every direction. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Two new characters, a baker and his wife who’ve been cursed with barrenness, help to tie everything together. Why “Into the Woods” Matters 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z As with many of her species, Cora’s life overflowed with the opposite of barrenness: that 21st-century saturation of play dates, art projects, bike rides, Netflix. In California Desert, Father and Daughter Find the Sublime 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Crossing the unending plains of Nevada, we scoffed at its barrenness. My Marriage: A Course in Desert Survival 2014-05-16T04:00:00Z A mega drought across the Western U.S. has sucked moisture from the land, leaving cracks and barrenness in its wake. Navajo sheep herding at risk from climate change. Some young people push to maintain the tradition 2023-10-30T04:00:00Z Bone-dry, bitterly cold and bathed in cosmic radiation, the surface of Mars may well be dead, with not so much as a single microbe breaking its state of barrenness. ‘Monster Quake’ Hints at Mysterious Source within Mars 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z Squinting into the inexpensive telescopes my parents bought me, I gasped at the sight of Jupiter’s swirling red storm, Venus’ greenish glare, distant star clusters, Halley’s Comet and the pitted barrenness of the moon. With a Black Californian headed to the moon, many see cosmic justice for a whole race 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z There were hardly any trees on the property, so it had this sort of barrenness to it, which was in line with the Evelyn Cameron photographs’ look. How a weathered, western authenticity comes through in the 'Power of the Dog' design 2022-03-09T05:00:00Z But Antonioni cast her against type in a cycle of acclaimed films about emotional detachment and spiritual barrenness. Monica Vitti, multifaceted actress who symbolized Italian mystique, dies at 90 2022-02-02T05:00:00Z After 15 months of sports settings in barrenness, then a little less barrenness, this felt a little more like life and, as a bonus, nobody harassed any alligators. At a breezy PGA, normalcy beckoned — in the galleries, if not the top of the leader board 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z This annual sequence, it seems, is a triumph over barrenness. At the Renwick Gallery, four artists conjure Mother Nature out of fabric, metal, glass and paper 2021-05-10T04:00:00Z “It speaks to something deep inside us, and, I think, it is a kind of rebellion against the ugliness and barrenness of modernity.” Opinion | Christianity Gets Weird 2020-05-08T04:00:00Z Dwelling on barrenness and death may not be enjoyable, but it prepares us: both to endure the inevitable hardships of the world and to appreciate the good times more, such as the upcoming holidays. Editorial Roundup: New York 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z As well as being less picturesque, the new city centre is colder: flatter, windier and more exposed, though presumably the new buildings will mitigate that barrenness. The Arctic town that must move – and the reindeer herders in the way 2018-12-02T05:00:00Z She taught a new generation of young queer people how to drag up an identity out of a barrenness around them, by looking to history and pop culture. 10 years of Lady Gaga: how she queered mainstream pop forever 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z “The stone images at first caused us to be struck with astonishment,” Roggeveen wrote, because the land was of such “singular poverty and barrenness.” Opinion | A Parable of Self-Destruction 2018-03-17T04:00:00Z He is acutely sensitive to the earth, its fruits, its barrenness and the changing seasons. Why Juan Rulfo’s fiction of fear is still revered in Latin America 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z It’s now decidedly after lunchtime, and my final goal for the day remains, well, nearly 200 miles to the northwest of Hulett in the barrenness of southeast Montana. TRAVEL: Wyoming, Montana wonders Devils Tower, Little Bighorn bear history of U.S., American Indians 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z “Our own generation has gained new vitality,” wrote Tigerman, “through its desire to find formal meaning in our cultural origins now that the barrenness of Modernism is behind us.” Rocket ships, eagles and wedding cakes: the Chicago contest that led to a skyscraper explosion 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z Eventually, they move to Arkansas, where Wright broods on “the cultural barrenness of black life”. 100 best nonfiction books: No 36 – Black Boy: A Record of Childhood and Youth by Richard Wright (1945) 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z This barrenness, even on the most famous of East Coast tracks once known for specimen trees, is the inevitable and probably necessary look for golf in a water-starved 21st century. At U.S. Open, Oakmont offers only pain and suffering, in equal abundance. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z It was a cultural barrenness and a total lack of emotional connection. How Woody Allen Got His Nickname 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z But if Clinton was not flawless she and her debating partners managed one distinct achievement: they accentuated the chaos, the intellectual barrenness, and the general collapse of their rivals in the Republican Party. A Turning Point for Hillary Clinton 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z In both, the outback isn’t just stunning in its barrenness, it’s also mystical. ‘Strangerland’ sets a frightening tone 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z It rises almost as if in apology for the barrenness around it. In Las Vegas, Defying the Odds of Reality 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Or the one who hints of a gated community to replace the barrenness on Lincoln Way. In Clairton, Pa., a High School Football Team Keeps a Town’s Heart Beating 2012-11-22T04:32:35Z There is no great difference after all in a desert of sand and a desert of houses, when both by a law of association suggest eternal sameness and barrenness. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z Wherever the waters come, there is greenness and fertility; at the point where they cease, there is barrenness and desolation. From Egypt to Japan 2012-04-19T02:00:28.147Z May this country never be invaded by the stranger, nor by hostile armies, nor by barrenness, nor by evil! The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z And so, in certain parts of the world, arose sex worship, the idea being that by the worship of the organs of generation the misfortune of barrenness might be avoided. The Masculine Cross A History of Ancient and Modern Crosses and Their Connection with the Mysteries of Sex Worship; Also an Account of the Kindred Phases of Phallic Faiths and Practices 2012-04-11T02:00:31.327Z Great fecundity had been promised to the race; but instead of that there had been a remarkable and perplexing barrenness, so that after two centuries one tent could contain the whole male population. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis 2012-04-08T02:00:21.793Z The highways and byways would not be cursed with barrenness and dust, but fringed with the mulberry and apple, with silent salutations for every weary traveler who would put forth his hand and eat. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z We have a flower which we call a daisy, a weed coarsened by our fierce sun, betraying barrenness of soil, and suggestive of careless culture. Caricature and Other Comic Art in all Times and many Lands. 2012-04-04T02:00:59.277Z May Aurâmazda protect this country from hostile armies, from barrenness and evil! The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z He does not himself object to its barrenness of vital meaning, so long as the barrenness of failure is prevented. The Psychology of Arithmetic 2012-03-31T02:00:28.817Z At others there is a deadness and barrenness which words cannot describe. Edward Hoare, M.A. A record of his life based upon a brief autobiography 2012-03-28T02:00:25.040Z There are dormant seasons—periods of infertility—when the chemistry of heaven and earth is needed to overcome this barrenness. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z As to my barrenness of invention, I have at least glanced over a number of subjects—painting, poetry, prose, plays, politics, parliamentary speakers, metaphysical lore, books, men, and things. Winterslow Essays and Characters Written There 2012-03-27T02:00:25.647Z To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z From its junction with the Saone to the Mediterranean, the Rhone is one stretch of barrenness. Pencillings by the Way Written During Some Years of Residence and Travel in Europe 2012-03-19T02:00:26.650Z It is difficult to convey an adequate conception of the barrenness of this coast. Dr. Grenfell's Parish The Deep Sea Fisherman 2012-03-15T02:00:30.867Z The unclothed land going so near to barrenness shall surely be clothed upon in the coming spring-time. A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. 2012-04-23T02:00:29.820Z But in the day its ugliness and barrenness were a proverb. Starvecrow Farm 2012-03-15T02:00:29.617Z The periodical invasion of these hordes of needy adventurers has been like the march of the locusts of Egypt—before them was fertility and beauty; behind them was barrenness and desolation. Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland 2012-03-12T03:00:20.310Z Thus he gets the Stoic strength without its hardness, the Stoic universality without its barrenness, the Stoic exaltation without its pride, the Stoic integrity without its formalism, the Stoic calm without its impassiveness. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z Beyond was barrenness; not another tree, not another bit of pasture-land was in sight. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z The soldiers bitterly cursed the government who had sent them to that land of barrenness and desolation. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. 2012-02-24T03:00:24.390Z The English colonies of Virginia, New England, and Jamaica are striking examples of barrenness of resource when confronted with unforeseen privations. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z The scenery all round us was of a soft and pleasing character, very strange to us after the dreary barrenness of the mountain slopes beneath this elevated and almost inaccessible garden. The Cruise of the 'Alerte' The narrative of a search for treasure on the desert island of Trinidad 2012-02-17T03:00:29.247Z But if sympathy is nil--never existed at all--what flowers of joy can spring from utter barrenness? The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z For all things turn to barrenness In the dim glass the demons hold, The glass of outer weariness, Made when God slept in times of old. Poems 2012-02-15T03:00:33.707Z We were above the line of vegetation, where not a tree grows, nor a blade of grass—where all is barrenness and desolation. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z What risk was there in the dream which was worse than the inevitable barrenness and premature fading of the sweat-shop? Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Nothing has shown more clearly the intellectual barrenness of the pulpit than baccalaureate sermons lately delivered. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:03:58.623Z Yet it is this very barrenness which has produced the materials of fertility for other lands in the form of guano and nitrate deposits. South America and the War 2012-02-10T03:00:17.163Z It was a pitiful sight to see the country, it presented such a scene of barrenness. Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day 2012-02-09T03:00:15.267Z But when the autumn rains descend, we can well believe that all this barrenness is turned into beauty, as these slopes are then green, both with olive and with orange groves. From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn 2012-02-15T03:00:25.610Z Still more astonishing than our past fecundity in invention would be future barrenness. Inventors 2012-02-08T03:00:16.647Z For a time I endured this servitude in an extraordinary barrenness of mind. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z The small amount of soil found upon the surface, as well as the barrenness of the rock, indicated no distant period of time when this volcanic plain had been formed. A History of Oregon, 1792-1849 Drawn From Personal Observation and Authentic Information 2012-01-20T03:00:11.607Z How can I lose myself in the magnificent forest of darkness when night is only a thin scattering of the trees of shadow with barrenness of lights between! The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z It is like the Roman Testaccian Hill in this respect, the only interesting feature of whose barrenness lies in its mysterious origin. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Kimberley, with its barrenness and huge dumps of dark, diamond-washed soil comes next, and finally the Great Fish River is crossed to the grassy plains of the Orange Free State. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z He marries while he is young—and his spouse is not cursed with barrenness. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z The barrenness of the soil, and the want of water, render agriculture a desperate resource, and there is no spontaneous product of the earth to sustain life. The Captive in Patagonia 2011-12-27T03:00:10.803Z The world was a barrenness, And the gardens were as the waste. The Star-Treader and other poems 2011-12-27T03:00:09.977Z These laws are "a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth, and the inclemency of the heavens." Religion In The Heavens Or, Mythology Unveiled in a Series of Lectures 2011-12-24T03:08:03.360Z Back of this are the bare mountains, rugged and naked in their rocky barrenness. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z For it is not only the difficulties and dangers due to Nature's barrenness that have to be guarded against. By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z If there was no money, the barrenness was accepted even cheerfully. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z Mines, distinguished by their fertility or barrenness, 70. An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 2011-12-05T03:00:41.403Z He obliges them to see their own barrenness. Practical Religion Being Plain Papers on the Daily Duties, Experience, Dangers, and Privileges of Professing Christians 2011-11-30T03:00:13.313Z As you ride across the high veldt you are struck by its utter barrenness and the thousands of ant-hills on all sides. Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer 2012-01-01T03:00:06.887Z The barrenness extends into the mountains themselves, where there are bare rock cliffs, stony slopes and a general absence of vegetation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z In spite of the emptiness of life and barrenness of these homes, they were on the whole better than the homes of the preceding generation. The Leaven in a Great City 2011-12-05T03:00:48.150Z When you see the ground covered with Heath, Broom, Bracken, Gorse and such like, they be most apparent signs of infinite great barrenness. The Adventures of a Grain of Dust 2011-11-22T03:00:12.257Z Germany has no reason to feel ashamed of her barrenness in fiction, so pre-eminent is she in many other and perhaps nobler forms of art. Essays on Modern Novelists 2011-11-22T03:00:10.817Z Like the majority of hybrids, though blossoming freely it yields a scant crop of nuts, one or two annually on a single tree, and this only after twelve years of persistent barrenness. The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States 2011-11-12T03:00:31.793Z Gotham Hill, once a sand-bank, piled up by the ocean, and long defeating, by its barrenness, the ingenuity of his culture, he at length clothed with a green garment of beautiful clover. Homes of American Statesmen With Anecdotical, Personal, and Descriptive Sketches 2011-11-04T02:00:19.293Z The corpse of Latona gave birth to a new vestal fire tended by new vestals, vowed no longer to barrenness, but to fertility and sacrifice. The Woman Who Vowed The Demetrian 2011-10-24T02:00:18.500Z Gone are the days of dole and widowhood, The days of barrenness that brought thee scorn; Thy wilderness now weds, thy desert blooms. Elias An Epic of the Ages 2011-10-13T02:00:41.923Z Objectionable modes of expression generally pass muster among them, simply because they labor under the great disadvantage of the national barrenness of intellect and the acknowledged poverty of colloquial literature. The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal 2011-10-13T02:00:35.977Z It operates like the east wind, causing blasting, barrenness, and desolation, wherever it goes, and nothing but the herculean arm of this young and vigorous republic can check its progress among ourselves. Popery! As it Was and as it Is Also, Auricular Confession; And Popish Nunneries 2011-10-12T02:00:50.077Z Among peoples in both hemispheres it has been the practice to free fields from the demons of barrenness by lighting huge fires. Great Inventions and Discoveries 2011-10-01T02:00:30.900Z But the barrenness of the next morning drove a point home: the Mets’ season, long and trying, was over. Alderson Takes a Look Ahead, and a Look Back 2011-09-30T04:10:21Z Indeed I had so over-estimated its quantity that our new abode was almost as bare as a barracks, and, occupied as I was with important business, I had almost got used to its barrenness. The Debit Account 2011-09-21T02:00:33.753Z "Men who know the Moon know that its barrenness is poison, and not right for people!" he growled. Comet's Burial 2011-09-19T02:00:15.417Z Here and there in the crevices of the black volcanic rocks, over which they hurried, a stunted sagebush or a dwarf cactus suggested the awful barrenness of the place rather than told of vegetation. Lost in the Ca?on 2011-09-19T02:00:14.387Z The mind is defended against the deadening influence of many isolated particulars and also against the barrenness of a merely formal principle. How We Think 2011-09-16T02:00:18.973Z We blindly feel through all the barrenness of the world for something into which our roots may plunge that we may be nourished and firm. The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon 2011-09-09T02:01:07.157Z The tragic story of poor Jo illustrated the poverty, the ignorance, the destitution, the hopelessness, the barrenness, and the dreadful environment of a London street boy. Dickens As an Educator 2011-09-02T02:00:22.320Z Men who had lived so long in the lunar silence and barrenness, soon saw that these raw materials of life need not only be used locally, but could be piped anywhere. Comet's Burial 2011-09-19T02:00:15.417Z Instead of "proving" Him, we "limit" Him, and therefore we are shorn of our strength and left in barrenness and desolation; or, what is worse, we betake ourselves to the miserable provisions of human expediency. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z Some see in it beauty, and others only barrenness—but always it is impressive. The Shadow of the Past 2011-08-31T02:01:36.547Z Bleached bones of cattle strewed the ground in places, and about the farms, springing up occasionally out of the barrenness, the lean stock moved listlessly, feeding on the insufficient vegetation. The Bigamist 2011-08-31T02:01:34.797Z Through the woman by his side came the white, searching light of a pure soul within, shining upon his own and revealing the barrenness of life without earnestness. An I.D.B. in South Africa 2011-08-31T02:01:33.733Z If it failed, it would at least point a powerful moral; and, therefore, when only leaves appeared upon it, Jesus cursed it with perpetual barrenness, and passed on. The Gospel According to St. Mark 2011-08-20T02:00:14.427Z We cannot—nor do we desire to—shut our eyes to the fact that deadness, coldness, and barrenness seem, as a rule, to characterize our prayer-meetings. The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z Its character, its growth, fecundity, or barrenness, depends upon elementary principles of far greater importance. The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind 2011-08-19T02:00:11.867Z The men of the present day seem to entertain a dream of universal peace, so perhaps the women are excusable for entertaining a dream of universal barrenness. The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z I cannot imagine why bees should be attracted to the barrenness of a boat, unless by a curiosity to explore such strange floating islands, though their dry wood promises neither leaf nor bloom. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z The appalling grey barrenness, the height of the frowning ramparts which surrounded him on all sides, except the narrow opening to the sea. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z Do we mourn over the coldness, barrenness, and death around us? The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z The desert land of heathenism has been explored, and the result is a discovery of fertile plains instead of barrenness. The Cradle of the Christ A Study in Primitive Christianity 2011-07-19T02:00:18.297Z Three thousand feet above the sea, a sheet of snow in the mid-winter, it is a prairie waving with giant grasses when remorseless suns are scorching the heart of the continent into barrenness. Nevermore 2011-07-08T02:00:23.973Z The failures were due to the barrenness of the country and to the fact that colonizing was made secondary to pearl fishing. The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 2011-07-06T02:00:47.077Z But alas! "it was no go;" there was not a living thing in sight—barrenness, barrenness, and desolation. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 3, October, 1851 2011-07-02T02:00:11.323Z Are our souls cast down by the barrenness, dullness, heaviness, and low tone of all our reunions, whether at the table of our Lord, before the mercy-seat, or around the fountain of holy Scripture? The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III 2011-09-01T02:00:17.707Z In view of the connection with them, the apparent barrenness of the Arakan Hills goes to show that little may be expected from the Andamans in the way of mineral products. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z Good and evil go hand in hand—death and life travel close together—and a few years of prosperous harvests are almost invariably followed by blight, barrenness, and scarcity. On the cattle plague: or, Contagious typhus in horned cattle. Its history, origin, description, and treatment 2011-06-24T02:00:18.093Z Diodorus Siculus tells us that the Egyptian priests pretty generally predicted the years of barrenness or abundance, the contagions, the earthquakes, inundations, and comets. Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens 2011-06-24T02:00:15.873Z There was now only the glaring sunlight showing up in all their barrenness the shabby little cottages with their dooryards strewn with tin cans and bits of paper, and swarming with half-clothed, crying babies. The Turn of the Tide The Story of How Margaret Solved Her Problem 2011-06-14T02:00:18.357Z It was a sense of the barrenness of my own future that had made me so restless. Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life 2011-06-12T02:00:07.963Z Fertility is, as you justly observe, the essence of high rents; and low rents are the necessary result of barrenness however scarce corn may be. Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 2011-06-09T02:00:21.460Z The inanity of that race— Of gentlemen who wrote with ease, and made such free use of “the full-resounding line,” void of all thought, only betrayed their barrenness by this additional extension of their weakness. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z He felt it was a noble work, this patient proving to ignorance and prejudice of what could be done with barrenness if only you mixed it with brains. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z It is probable that in the country district, where the family of Elkanah dwelt, that the barrenness of Hannah was a matter of notoriety. The Bible: what it is 2011-05-31T02:00:29.687Z It would be proof of great blindness and great barrenness. Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good 2011-05-25T02:00:17.943Z There have been periods of greater and periods of less prosperity and fruit; but wastes of marked suspension and barrenness there have been none. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z We see at once all the embarrassments and barrenness of this wearying and perplexed fancy. Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z Daylight crept wearily over the timber belt and spread itself slowly over the barrenness, and struck the highest rise of ground, running crosswise through the barrens, which men called “Hog-Back Ridge.” The Snow-Burner 2011-05-17T02:00:21.527Z All Egypt depends upon the Nile; where the Nile does not flow all is barrenness—nothing but sand and rock. Cities of the Dawn 2011-05-13T02:00:10.047Z Again:— “Even the earth itself, which teems with profusion under the cultivating hand of the free born laborer, shrinks into barrenness from the contaminating sweat of a slave.” The Impending Crisis of the South How to Meet It 2011-05-10T02:00:59.100Z Nothing makes a man appear more contemptible than barrenness, pedantry, or impropriety of expression. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z As will be shown below, the barrenness and desolation of this arid tract is not so great as it seemed to those who first invaded its primeval solitude. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Yet along the Andes, there is a branch of the Auraucanos that is still recalcitrant, and whose freedom no government has thought fit to challenge, because of the apparent barrenness of that mountainous country. The Radio Boys' Search for the Inca's Treasure 2011-04-30T02:00:12.743Z If the dining-room and drawing-rooms represented tropical luxury, the bedrooms cooled down into a temperate zone; and the top region of all was arctic in its barrenness. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z He had but one prayer now, and it cried in its barrenness of hope, "Let me never leave this place!" The Deemster 2011-04-08T02:00:08.197Z It is not barrenness of art or invention makes us borrow from the French, but laziness; and this was the occasion of my making use of L’Avare.” History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I 2011-04-03T02:00:22.843Z The second is a sort of compendium of the first, and the same ideas and expressions are slavishly repeated; which implies a barrenness of invention, and sterility of language, that cannot be supposed in Cicero. History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II 2011-04-03T02:00:18.677Z You will love it through all its barrenness, and never part with it. Luttrell Of Arran Complete 2011-04-01T02:00:31.290Z Every change in the soil and climate of Africa is in extremes, and barrenness and unbounded fertility border on each other with a suddenness whereof the denizens of temperate climes can form no conception. The Highlands of Ethiopia 2011-02-25T03:01:07.193Z The farm was rugged and not very fertile; it is said that granite rocks visible in every direction, gave an air of barrenness to the scene. Stories of Great Men 2011-02-21T03:00:07.643Z But records seem to indicate that it flourished especially during this period of supposed barrenness. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z While we can but admire the picturesque situation of the capital, yet, even at first sight, we cannot fail to notice the great barrenness of the scene. The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa 2011-02-13T03:00:17.920Z In this work the author has corrected the erroneous opinion which has long been held, of the barrenness of the Sahara. The Progress of Ethnology An Account of Recent Archaeological, Philological and Geographical Researches in Various Parts of the Globe 2011-02-12T03:00:34.983Z Another point in which they show a constitutional divergence from their forefathers is in the singular barrenness that has fallen upon their women. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z There the flat barrenness of the Crau becomes fertile slopes and watered fields. The Car That Went Abroad Motoring Through the Golden Age 2011-01-27T03:00:39.880Z The sheer barrenness of the islet on which they were now stranded was its vital defect. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z The Race seemed threatened with intellectual barrenness; it had dropped its great blossoms, and stood amidst the pile of their wilting but still showy petals, budless and bare. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z Notwithstanding the barrenness of the country, it abounds with a variety of unknown plants, and gave sufficient employment to the botanists of the Resolution. Narrative of the Voyages Round the World, Performed by Captain James Cook : with an Account of His Life During the Previous and Intervening Periods 2011-01-12T03:00:35.190Z Surveying its present condition or appearance of barrenness, a modern visitor wonders how the ancient inhabitants contrived to exist, or find food, within the withered, unfruitful chasm. Ancient Chinese account of the Grand Canyon, or course of the Colorado 2011-01-12T03:00:34.043Z "Consider the loneliness, the barrenness, the want of all comfort and of all aid, should aid be needed." The Man from Archangel and Other Tales of Adventure 2011-01-01T03:00:24.903Z Thus we are to understand the words, “A fruitful land turneth he into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.” True Christianity 2010-12-25T03:00:12.817Z And then the commonplace aspect of the houses, with all their whitewash and their rows of fragile and meretricious flower-pots; the parched barrenness of the vegetation, the dirt of the natives! The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Surely those grim dwellers of a grim land should thank thee for thy touch of softening splendour and beauty amidst grey barrenness,—the carpet of a king amongst briers and rock, thistle and waste. A Blot on the Scutcheon Nature appeared anxious to make amends for the barrenness of the preceding years. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 And if I wandered but a mile and a-half up the glen, I was in the midst of barrenness and solitude. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 Now then, you’ve been reconnoitring, have you, and spying out the barrenness of the land?” A Double Knot It is easy to exaggerate greatly the barrenness of an arid country. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" The deeds done, and the sufferings endured, commanded, and still command admiration, yet withal there was an element of barrenness in the work; it was magnificent, but it was not colonization. A Historical Geography of the British Colonies Vol. V, Canada—Part I, Historical Aridity and barrenness characterize both high and low grounds, and the date-palm is often the only representative of vegetable existence. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli Where the natures of both are as God intended, sterility and barrenness would be alike a great disappointment for either. What a Young Husband Ought to Know A few spiny green shrubs struggled through at intervals, but their presence only intensified the barrenness about them. The Reclaimers For Sophia was a born creator, and the seeming futility of all she was undergoing, and the barrenness it bound her to, filled her with a sense of waste. Beggars on Horseback Its barrenness was formerly much exaggerated, when it was popularly described as the “sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire.” Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" Amid the poverty, barrenness, and discouragements of most Chinese lives, the gift of a wholly new relationship of the sort which Christianity imparts is to be reckoned among the choicest treasures of existence. Village Life in China A Study in Sociology If the food is insufficient, either in quantity or quality, to maintain good physical conditions, or if it is too abundant or too rich, a tendency to sterility and barrenness is alike the result. What a Young Husband Ought to Know "Nay, nay, you must not be offended; I was rather jesting on my own barrenness of patronage than upon your proposal." Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) As Sophia felt the anguish of the Person who had absorbed her, she realized it was the same as hers—the fear and pain of barrenness. Beggars on Horseback Hence, the barrenness of modern analytical speculation, which has been complained of by high authorities, the mathematical sciences having run into a luxuriant growth of foliage, with comparatively small quantities of fruit. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. Nothing in the way of desert barrenness, or elevated temperature, unless it be those of Sahara, can exceed the deserts about the head of the Arabian Sea and Persian Gulf. The Philosophy of the Weather And a Guide to Its Changes Sometimes there is barrenness for a period of years, and this is followed by a period of quite frequent childbearing. What a Young Husband Ought to Know It is due to the barrenness of their first principle itself. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy She knew that to those to whom the joy of making a living body with its corresponding soul is denied, creation is not stilled, that there need be no barrenness in a garden enclosed. Beggars on Horseback After that there is nothing but barrenness and desolation. The Unveiling of Lhasa The days of dearth and barrenness will come, must come, to those who sow their seed upon the stony ground. Under the Mendips A Tale The cure for barrenness is found in remedying the cause. What a Young Husband Ought to Know On the contrary, all priests were the sons of priests, and the case of Elizabeth shows that here, as throughout the Jewish people, barrenness was considered a disgrace. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" Towards the north, where the hills of Thuringia, and the Pine Mountains are less productive, its comparative barrenness is compensated by its riches in minerals and wood. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 383, September 1847 It will help to relieve the tedium and barrenness of classical study, as too often conducted, and to give some living features to languages which are too generally looked upon as “dead.” Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes Wasted lives, neglected opportunities, withered hopes, how thick they lie strewn upon our paths as the autumn of life is sinking into the days of winter barrenness and dearth. Under the Mendips A Tale Marriage, either at too early or too late a period, tends to barrenness. What a Young Husband Ought to Know From the same fiery temper proceeds the loftiness of his expressions, and the perpetual torrent of his verse, where the barrenness of his subject does not too much constrain the quickness of his fancy. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 There were piers and band houses and refreshment stalls built over the solid grey levels of the lake, but they only accentuated the utter barrenness of the place. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel She is in your wild and savage land, like a lovely and tender flower growing in the cleft of a rock—a sweet and gentle thing, blooming alone in the midst of rudeness and barrenness. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 Life, which a few minutes ago had seemed so dreary in the flat barrenness of outlook, became suddenly illumined with interest. A Question of Marriage While the question of food is very important, it is not the only cause of barrenness. What a Young Husband Ought to Know Moralists have often found a fruitful theme in the utter barrenness of all the appliances men employ for their pleasures. One Of Them This was a Titanic task indeed, for during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries intellectual barrenness, spiritual corruption, and luxuriant debauchery prevailed. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Fertility also smiled by the sides of the rivulet, though the rising and setting sun threw the shadows of barrenness over it. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 These women were products of the time; they had to be, to compensate for the general sterility and barrenness, to equalize the inequalities, and to pay the tribute of vice and debauch. Women of Modern France (Illustrated) Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 7 (of 10) The desire for children is natural both to men and women, and in the home, as in universal nature, unfruitfulness and barrenness are a great misfortune. What a Young Husband Ought to Know As the Deity can suddenly send or withhold rain or drought, barrenness or birth, life or death, so the inference is that the man of God can do the same with his prayer. Jewish Theology No other ancient people so highly prized chastity in woman; motherhood was regarded as an evidence of divine favor, while barrenness was considered a curse. Oriental Women It is said that Carvilius, though he loved his wife, divorced her on account of barrenness, he having, with many other citizens, made a vow to marry for the sake of offspring. Roman Women The abundance and beauty of the plate on the sideboard might partially redeem in his eyes the barrenness of the place. Women of England Among the Israelites barrenness was regarded as one of the greatest of misfortunes. What a Young Husband Ought to Know But the unpopularity of so great a man succeeding upon so considerable a technical success sufficiently proves at what a price the barrenness of that success was estimated in England. Malplaquet But barrenness was probably not more common among the Hebrews than among other peoples. Oriental Women His primary task, to pitch upon a theme, is almost wholly selective, unless he is cursed with a paucity of observation or barrenness of imagination, in which case he has mistaken his calling. The Technique of Fiction Writing He covered with a kindly hand some of her barrenness, planting English elms beneath her fortress. Cathedrals of Spain Their very crudeness, their nakedness, their barrenness of accessory, their sharp, brilliant coloring, cause them to stand out in strong relief. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. The problem of this delay is one which the historian must anxiously consider, for the answer to it explains the barrenness and political failure associated with the name of Malplaquet. Malplaquet Where the barrenness of the repetition shows the lack of content all the more strongly. Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" In antiquity, if a field was barren, the owner of it would probably assume that the barrenness was due to pollution, or offense somewhere. The Next Step in Religion An Essay toward the Coming Renaissance For, be it this town’s barrenness—or else The Man had something in the look of him— His case has struck me far more than ’tis worth. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse The king, however, appeared to have no forebodings, but trotted along with great complacency, commenting now and then on the barrenness of the landscape. A Prince of Good Fellows "I assure you," he says, "I have felt really oppressed with a sort of fearful loneliness when looking around these naked towering ridges of desolate barrenness." In the Border Country Dulness and barrenness of thought is the original of it in both these sects, and they differ only in constitution: the low is generally a phlegmatic, and the high a choleric coxcomb. The Tatler, Volume 3 So that a limestone landscape is apt to be dull, and cold in general tone, with some aspect even of barrenness. Modern Painters, Volume IV (of V) His journey would be an arduous one, and nobody knew better than he the barrenness of that Northwestern land while the icy grip of winter still clings. In the Brooding Wild Rivers of gladness water all the earth, And clothe all climes with beauty; the reproach Of barrenness is gone. Studies in Prophecy The barrenness of the place seemed to be sufficient guarantee for the honesty of its usual occupant. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch From your too much green of wealth, a barrenness of friendship? The Kempton-Wace Letters It is a kind of love without love; a feast of barrenness undisguised. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages The barrenness is emphasized by skeleton-like trees of such size as no man has ever seen before. In the Brooding Wild It was rough almost beyond believing, but its very barrenness had made it useful. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers We were just commenting on the barrenness of this place, but your presence causes it to blossom as the rainbow. The Wide Awake Girls in Winsted From the barrenness of the Gobi to the rank vegetation of the Edzina valley, where the grass and grain were actually falling over from excessive weight, was a most relieving change. Across Asia on a Bicycle Through all that century the desire, the need for barrenness grew more and more. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages He brought together every element of dread and terror,—barrenness, brokenness, dreariness, fearful cold, blinding fog, crushing ice, sudden savage change. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 She received her familiar visitor where only intimate friends were allowed to come, in the morning-room, to which its new distinction gave something of the barrenness and rigidity of a room of business. A Country Gentleman and his Family Mighty towns and spacious cities will shrink into obscure villages; smiling and fertile districts relapse into original barrenness; kinsfolk and acquaintance be put nearly out of sight. Old Roads and New Roads We may here, therefore, close our inquiries into the subject of construction; nor must the reader be dissatisfied with the simplicity or apparent barrenness of their present results. The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) Such charms were supposed to bring good luck and prosperity to the owner and they were used particularly as a charm against barrenness in women. The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races An Interpretation It is the sea that dooms Labrador, and the relation of the coast to this does much to determine its fertility, or rather its barrenness. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 91, May, 1865 I will appeal to all who know the flatness of his style, and the barrenness of his invention, whether he doth not grossly prevaricate? Calamities and Quarrels of Authors It was no season to look upon the heath in the beauty of barrenness, yet I purposely diverged from the main road. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative I would like very much to comprehend fairly the reason of the barrenness, the failure to attain content or satisfaction, in all those years of my London life. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography During earlier times barrenness was regarded as a curse, and many charms were in use to counteract this calamity. The Sex Worship and Symbolism of Primitive Races An Interpretation Indeed, it is so absolutely new that it has not yet reached the raw barrenness of a new place. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 There will be barrenness where "the water is nought"! The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching Against this explanation there is, in addition, the circumstance that the barrenness of the country is not at all pointed out in the preceding context. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 To complain of intellectual barrenness in any given environment must surely be to confess intellectual barrenness in the complainant. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography This beautiful prospect was over a volcanic district, and with the sandstone which they were just leaving, they were bidding farewell to barrenness and desolation. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants She was lonely and oppressed, and hungry for kind words, but it was not this stranger’s office to make green the barrenness of her life. The Bondboy How often we hear of the intellectual barrenness of the modern sermon! The Message and the Man: Some Essentials of Effective Preaching It gave him time to walk about among the gigantic stones which cast their curse of barrenness over that broken stretch, Agnes with him, and make a further investigation of the land’s mineral possibilities. Claim Number One The sunshine was not shed on rough barrenness; it fell on soft bloom. Shirley Scattered round the shores of New Holland at various distances are many small islands and rocks, the prevailing appearance of which is that of extreme barrenness. Australia, its history and present condition containing an account both of the bush and of the colonies, with their respective inhabitants The trespass of time he resented; the barrenness of his hope he grieved. The Rustler of Wind River The country there, partly from the barrenness of the soil, and the inclemency of the season, and partly from other causes which I will not now enumerate, is unfavourable to the existence of its inhabitants. The History of Sandford and Merton The Valley lay before him in all its barrenness. A Captain in the Ranks A Romance of Affairs In antiquity, if a field was barren, the owner of it would probably assume that the barrenness was due to 'pollution', or offence somewhere. Five Stages of Greek Religion Purple funereal from rifted skies Swept down across their proud sterility, Only to die as here all glory dies, On barrenness I did not dream could be. Many Gods A withering bud Brews barrenness thro all the verdancy Of Spring. Nirvana Days How much rather would I inhabit the stormy top of Lebanon, amid eternal snows and barrenness, than wallow in the vile sensuality of such a country, or breathe an air infected by its vices!' The History of Sandford and Merton They would leave their fruitful land to barrenness, and would prefer sleeping under their trees, to the simplest operation of agriculture in a soil that never requires the plough. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 Directly ahead was a land of desolation, radiant in its barrenness. Two Thousand Miles Below Familiarity with the words had not yet trampled the sacred writings into practical barrenness. Bunyan Save thy soul from sandy barrenness, Let it blossom with roses and gleam with the living waters. Dreamers of the Ghetto Only far off might be had the glimpse of other hills and of patches of cultivation on them; the near landscape was all barrenness and blackberries. Diana We are struck with the aspect of barrenness caused by the absence of vegetation. Aztec Land The barrenness of the room smote him acutely with the memory of those performances, and he laughed ironically to himself that he should thus revert to them. The Strollers Surrounded by aridity and barrenness, its surface presents the aspect of a huge caldron, boiling and steaming perpetually, while its margin trembles, and resounds with the furious explosions from below. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. But even this way the road required negotiation, for the same bald rocks and barrenness offered no sure foothold. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills The fields were abandoned to weeds and barrenness. Henry IV, Makers of History The Tajo, Tagus, which the fancy of poets has sanded with gold and embanked with roses, tracks much of its dreary way through rocks and comparative barrenness. A Supplementary Chapter to the Bible in Spain In the evening it would all become an amusing, bright-colored reality, but now the barrenness of the scenes was forcibly apparent. The Strollers On the north side only was there barrenness—for that seemed but a tongue of low land and black rock thrust straight out into the sea. The House Under the Sea A Romance We find it composed of a loose debris of granitic water-rolled pebbles and ferruginous sand, that seemed destined to perpetual barrenness. Leading Articles on Various Subjects As a butterfly thou didst sport through the spring-time and summer without for a moment thinking of providing food and refuge against the wintry barrenness and wintry cold. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 6 June 1848 Scores of cattle-paths were twisting and interlacing all around us, giving, in fact, to the scene, notwithstanding its barrenness, a picturesque appearance. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 These statistical indications of declining productivity of the soil are supported by the overwhelming evidence of the poverty of the fourteenth century peasantry—poverty which can be explained only by the barrenness of their land. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction You see, O Greece, your barrenness of words, sometimes, though you think you are always so rich in them. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero And there was an almost sudden edge, beyond which the blades thinned out quickly to barrenness. Happy Ending To the south, a ranch at Willow Spring, where a stubborn cattleman hung on in spite of growing barrenness due to the hated sheep, was forty miles away. Louisiana Lou A Western Story There is a struggle to overcome the natural barrenness, and the end not attained, an appearance of something doing or imperfectly done, a passing with labour from one state of society into another. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 It has already been seen that the acreage under crop was steadily decreasing, as more and more land reached a stage of barrenness in which it no longer repaid cultivation. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction It was all of the same unesthetic barrenness, and not overly clean at that. A Son of the Middle Border This sudden transition from barrenness to fertility, from the sublime to the beautiful, from irregularity to uniformity, could not fail to please, as all strong contrasts usually do. Travels in China, Containing Descriptions, Observations, and Comparisons, Made and Collected in the Course of a Short Residence at the Imperial Palace of Yuen-Min-Yuen, and on a Subsequent Journey through the Country from Pekin to Canton And the old man slouched away full of indignation at the barrenness of the heavenly promises. Oklahoma Sunshine This valley seemed to have less of the appearance of barrenness or imperfect cultivation than any of the same character we had passed through; indeed, we could not discern any traces of it. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 The barrenness and low productivity of the common fields is explicitly recognised by contemporaries, and is given as the reason for the conversion of arable to pasture. The Enclosures in England An Economic Reconstruction Unlike most other great deserts, however, the land is very elevated, and it is to this elevation that its barrenness is, in a great measure, due. Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series He wondered that the plain had not impressed him more deeply with its desolation and barrenness when he came out to the ranch. With Hoops of Steel I never saw a more uncompromising bit of barrenness. Nobody The whole scene was a combination of natural wildness, loveliness, beauty, and barrenness, or rather bareness, yet not comfortless or cold; but the whole was beautiful. Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 There were remedies for barrenness, she thought, and sometimes they worked. The Saracen: The Holy War He smiled on the vanity of my youth, and personally conducted me to the barrenness whither it led. The Belovéd Vagabond The most useful services we render are those which, like the sweet fruits of the wilderness, spring from hours of barrenness. Days of Heaven Upon Earth Silence, where the babble of voices had been; emptiness, where young feet and old feet had gone in and out; barrenness, where the fruits of human industry had been busily gathered and dispensed. Nobody He had ridden past a tiny, partly caved-in dugout, months ago, where some wandering prospector had camped while he braved the barrenness of the bills and streams hereabout. The Ranch at the Wolverine Then there was a great change from fertility to barrenness. A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France The barrenness that afflicts all countries which are the seat of a false religion is a public testimony of the Divine indignation against idolatry. Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge Beloved, is it the dark hour with us? the winter of barrenness and gloom? Days of Heaven Upon Earth Wherever this pan occurs, we find the superincumbent soil doomed to barrenness,—arid and sun-baked during the summer and autumn months, and, from the same cause, overcharged with moisture in winter and spring. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland Jase would have stopped there and called home the sheltered little green spot in the gray barrenness. The Ranch at the Wolverine The general appearance of Aden from the sea, though picturesque, is not inviting, giving one an idea of great barrenness. Due West or Round the World in Ten Months In that single moment it seemed to me that I realized with something like complete despair the barrenness of the days to come. The Master Mummer It was not until the despatch of this force that the true barrenness of the land came to be revealed, and melancholy was the outlook it presented. History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 v. 1 (of 4) Compiled by Direction of His Majesty's Government The relative barrenness of our faith during past centuries in India was largely, if not entirely, due to its foreign ecclesiastical forms and its shibboleths pronounced in foreign tongues. India, Its Life and Thought It is, then, upon the streams, and upon them alone, that the soil has to depend for its fertility; all those lands to which they never reach are doomed to barrenness and death. A History of Art in Chaldæa & Assyria, v. 1 Two of the worst faults which a variety may have are partial barrenness or shy bearing and poor filling quality. The Pecan and its Culture Indeed, their exceeding ignorance and the barrenness of their invention are the best excuse for their murders and robberies. Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) On the instant of offering hospitality to this dainty new friend, and acute perception of the barrenness of it overswept and dismayed her. Glory and the Other Girl The general aspect of Aden from the sea, though picturesque, is not inviting, giving one an idea of great barrenness. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands For the happiness of man is in his fertility, and of barrenness comes the worst despair. Apologia Diffidentis In the life of the mystic the states of love and aspiration for God alternate with those of spiritual helplessness and barrenness. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts The absence of menstruation almost always induces barrenness. Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction The infinite lavish fulness of the present quite laughed at the idea of barrenness or want anywhere in time to come. The End of a Coil Suez is reached at last, a place which is all waste and barrenness, so we hasten on by railway to Cairo, a distance of two hundred miles. Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Habits of patient industry were induced in the Athenian character by the poverty and comparative barrenness of the soil, demanding greater exertion to supply their natural wants. Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles 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? Little Folks (July 1884) A Magazine for the Young Then she spoke to him about the barrenness of her existence, as there was nobody she could go to see, and nothing to amuse her or distract her thoughts. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man Yet every now and again, as if resentful of this inequality of wardrobe, an old hen pheasant will assume male plumage, and this epicene raiment indicates barrenness. Birds in the Calendar From Villars Coterets, the road lies over a high plateau, covered with grain, and exhibiting more than ordinary barrenness and desolation. Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes. The mountains have the gloomy barrenness, the slate-grey colour of volcanic ranges; they encircle the town in a gigantic amphitheatre, rugged and overbearing like Titans turned to stone. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Paul compares it to a resurrection—like as when the barrenness and desolation of a Winter is supplanted by the fruits and beauties of Summer. The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882 The poverty, barrenness, unevenness of this part of the country perhaps was never surpassed. Narrative of Richard Lee Mason in the Pioneer West, 1819 Now, much of the so-called barrenness of country life is the oak minus the polish. Chapters in Rural Progress The house was barrenness itself—no shades, no curtains, no decorations of any kind. The New Education A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) But if not metalliferous, much of the parish is exceptionally fertile and verdant, in contrast to the barrenness of the Goonhilly Downs. The Cornwall Coast But He would not suffer you to linger in this state of worthless barrenness. Memories of Bethany We travelled from Killarney to Tarbert, on the Shannon, by the stage-coach, passing through several old, but uninteresting towns, and seeing a great deal of barrenness and wretchedness on our way. Stories and Legends of Travel and History, for Children To the uninitiated a clod of dry earth is the most unpromising of objects—it is cousin to the stone, and the type of barrenness. Chapters in Rural Progress She could not tell whether it was the barrenness of the room, or Milt's carefulness, that caught her. Free Air The stony barrenness of the inland country is compensated by a real grandeur of coast-line, invisible from the road and therefore often left unexplored. The Cornwall Coast Yet its very barrenness of ruins made it dearer to my heart, for one never clings more fondly to the memory of a dear friend than when all mementoes of him are lost. Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 In spite of the terrible barrenness of this side of the island, the spectacle of the grotesque assemblage of men and women was not without grandeur and beauty. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century Active brain and toiling hands had won from mother earth rich stores and transformed the apparent barrenness of the ground convenient to where Gotown sprang up into the nucleus of a flourishing city. A Pirate of Parts Infidelity.—There is but one thing without honor; smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,—insincerity, unbelief. Pearls of Thought At the season when vegetation is elsewhere at its richest, the dominant features of the landscape are barrenness and desolation. The Huguenots in France Wilton tried to laugh, but his heavy lips merely worked in a crazy barrenness of sound. No Clue A Mystery Story Young women who are very fat are cold and prone to barrenness. The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources They are particularly efficacious for curing barrenness, on which account it is frequently visited by those who are very desirous of offspring. Chronicles of Strathearn Every girl born into the world was destined for a heritage of love or of barrenness—yet she was forbidden to exert herself either to invite the one or to avoid the other. Virginia There the barrenness of the soil, the inhospitality of the climate, and the comparative inaccessibility of their villages, proved their security. The Huguenots in France They had risen out of the desert barrenness and gloom, the sudden twilight, and silently appeared. The High Calling In the same way I should dispose of the objection, that this habit leads to barrenness in preaching, and the everlasting repetition of the same sentiments and topics. Hints on Extemporaneous Preaching He had not risen yet to the conception of the real barrenness and squalor of the life he had lived. A Spoil of Office A Story of the Modern West Nothing but the infinite barrenness of the plain, the ridges on either side, the long, straight, endless road cleaving through this abomination of desolation. The Joyous Adventures of Aristide Pujol They were also liable to be divorced for barrenness, which, if it could be construed into a fault, was at least the fault of nature, and might sometimes be that of the husband. Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World The hideous barrenness of the place seemed an outrage to her delicacy and made the refinement of her beauty seem cruelly out of place. A Beautiful Alien He dressed the poem out in elegant phrases in order to hide the barrenness of the original. The Translations of Beowulf A Critical Bibliography It may be triploid, that is, with 3 sets of chromosomes instead of the normal double set, and this would account for its barrenness. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952 Ages flower thus but once, and then years of barrenness! John the Baptist He held his course courageously to the west, but the country was of such appalling barrenness that, after penetrating half-way to the western coast, he was forced to abandon the attempt and return. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 Is it some obscure and occult cause? a mysterious interference of heaven,' inflicting barrenness at certain periods? or 'a cause open to our researches and within our view?' The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill As he bent down toward the creature he noticed its loss of fur, that its skin, seen through the multiple spots of barrenness, was flaking, and that its eyes were still and sunken. An Apostate: Nawin of Thais I have told you so before, and it may be a proof of the barrenness of my resources to tell you so again, but it is true. Vagabondia 1884 In the chronic form of the disease, especially where barrenness exists, Macrotin, Podophyllin and Hydrastin, given morning, noon and night, in the order named, will, in nearly all cases, afford relief. An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time Following Cooper’s Creek for many miles, they entered a region of frightful barrenness. History of Australia and New Zealand From 1606 to 1890 These seedling trees are paying at present under our present high prices after many years of barrenness. Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Fifteenth Annual Meeting New York City, September 3, 4 and 5, 1924 The Earth Mother needed light that her eyes might be opened, that she might bear children and escape the disgrace of her barrenness. In the Time That Was But if such persons were strong enough to live an even life, and not to seek to do more in seasons of abundance than in times of barrenness, they would satisfy every one. Spiritual Torrents Sir Walter Scott makes him say: “A scene so wild, so rude as this, Yet so sublime in barrenness, Ne’er did my wandering footsteps press, Where’er I happ’d to roam.” A Yacht Voyage Round England This fact, together with the stupidity of the regulations and the inexperience, or worse, of the medical staff, accounts for the waste of life and the barrenness of these tedious campaigns. William Pitt and the Great War They are illustrations of barrenness dependent on different circumstances. Elements of Agricultural Chemistry If married before the age of twenty the statistics prove that barrenness exists in one woman in every twelve. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies The fact is that every life has a background, if we will but take the trouble to see and understand it: all the barrenness is in our own imaginations. Friendly Visiting among the Poor A Handbook for Charity Workers As he softly tiptoed around, seeking the outfit he needed for his great adventure, the barrenness of the house, the poverty of it, struck him for the first time. Labrador Days Tales of the Sea Toilers Still more desert regions exist, which may vie with those of Africa in barrenness. The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America It is this barrenness of invention that the ingenious Goldoni has so well exposed in one of his plays, in the following speech, addressed to a young man. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing It will usually be found in such cases that a displacement or laceration, or at most, some cause easily remedied is immediately responsible for the apparent barrenness. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies When I forget this I am visited with that barrenness of mind, and hardness of heart which are always the companions of those who live at a distance from God. The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Dung the fig-tree hopefully, and not until its barrenness has been demonstrated beyond a doubt let the sentence go forth, 'Cut it down, why cumbereth it the ground?' Fragments of science, V. 1-2 No wonder that the chroniclers were obliged to account for the barrenness and weakness of the land by exaggerating the already certain slaughter at Fontenai.... The Story of Rouen Away with all the false notions that are circulating about the barrenness of this country. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 The barrenness may be dependent upon some physical defect which will quickly respond to the proper medical treatment. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies I had never loved her so much as I loved her that instant—never so fully realized what the barrenness of my life would be without her. The Cryptogram A Story of Northwest Canada As regards workmanship, moreover, he will not fail to bear in mind, that fruitfulness may be due to errors of manipulation, while barrenness involves the presumption of correct experiment. Fragments of science, V. 1-2 Our barrenness and leanness hath negligence written upon it. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning The route to the south was spotted by great strips of sandy barrenness, torn by winds that swept the grains of sand into the troopers' eyes and crept into the chinks of their armor. Despoilers of the Golden Empire There are a great many cases on record where, conditions having remained the same, women have become fertile after years of seeming barrenness. The Eugenic Marriage, Vol. 2 A Personal Guide to the New Science of Better Living and Better Babies "Not much of a farming country around here," remarked Dave, as he looked at the general barrenness of the aspect. Dave Porter in the Gold Fields or, The Search for the Landslide Mine It is a well-known fact that frigidity is a frequent cause of barrenness, as well as a barrier to matrimonial happiness. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother I beseech you, know the original of your miseries, doubts, barrenness, and darkness. The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning She was not in the least afraid; she had forgotten for the moment the barrenness of the streets that awaited her outside, and the fact that she had come to the end of her hopes. Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories Across the sands of Syria, Or, possibly, Algeria, Or some benighted neighbourhood of barrenness and drouth, There came the Prophet Sam-u-el Upon the Only Cam-u-el— A bumpy, grumpy Quadruped of discontented mouth. The Book of Humorous Verse The barrenness of intellectual scholasticism 532is in sharp contrast with the overflowing love and simple transparency which reveal the image of God in every man, and as an incidental result, possible health and harmony. The Arena Volume 4, No. 23, October, 1891 Then, looking out of the many-paned window, while the shame of his barrenness clothed him even as a garment, he beheld Lady Calmady pacing slowly over the gray quarries of the terrace pavement. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance The floor was black, the fireplace empty, the walls without a picture, and yet it was neither from this grayness nor from this barrenness that one recoiled. The Forsaken Inn A Novel Seneca failed to anticipate that, in spite of the barrenness of Corsica, it would some day produce a man who would jostle his Roman Cæsar for first place on history's page. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 It will be found a great relief in both health and sickness, and in many cases cure barrenness and other diseases of the womb. 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 The living waters that shall be "a river to swim in," are very shallow yet; and where the fishers are to stand and cast their nets, it is a waste of barrenness. The Gold of Chickaree This barrenness, I have shown, is not attributable to the poverty of the soil, but to the want of due cultivation. Rookwood But Nature has provided a wonderful law of compensation for this waste, which would, without such provision, parch the earth to barrenness in a single rainless month. Farm drainage The Principles, Processes, and Effects of Draining Land with Stones, Wood, Plows, and Open Ditches, and Especially with Tiles In the mare barrenness is equally due to a variety of causes. Special Report on Diseases of the Horse With respect, however, to the attributed barrenness of great part of the territory, so peremptorily insisted on by many, there is some excuse for the earlier travellers from whom that opinion is derived. Handbook to the new Gold-fields So, if we neglect the soul, how shall it escape the natural retrograde movement, the inevitable relapse into barrenness and death? Natural Law in the Spiritual World The summer bounty hid the castle; the winter barrenness revealed it! My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year I rejoice to find that the fumier I have been forced to fling on my worn-out ancestral estate is fertilizing its barrenness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Among them are dumbness, blindness, barrenness, possession, scrofula, dyspepsia, a broken leg, deformities of limbs, lameness, gout, diseases of the eyes, cataract, ulcer, and dropsy. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing S. I found it by the barrenness; hard in the palm 120 of the hand. The Comedy of Errors The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] There have been periods of greater, and periods of less, prosperity and fruit; but wastes of marked suspension and barrenness, there have been none. Classic French Course in English We return from the land of pride to the home of lowliness, from hard indifference to gracious sympathy, from the barrenness of sin to the beauty of holiness. My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year In every direction all was desolation and barrenness. The History of Little Peter, the Ship Boy It should be recollected that the comparative barrenness of civil law in archaic collections is consistent with those other characteristics of ancient jurisprudence which have been discussed in this treatise. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society It was not only the dryness of the method and the barrenness of the system which revolted Erasmus. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation None of these, for my soul; Only to weep is given to me, To nourish my heart's crop For the scythe of barrenness to reap. Sandhya Songs of Twilight It is when reading the story of her after-life, and learning from it how, despite her masculine intellect, she possessed a heart truly feminine, that we fully appreciate the barrenness of her early years. Mary Wollstonecraft Its attributes are all gigantic: it has the picturesque ruggedness of the Appenines, without their barrenness; since the valleys lying between the ridges, wherever they have been cleared, give evidences of the richest soil. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. As I drove over the road to the club, the bleak barrenness of the country struck me anew. 32 Caliber For all that I have said about the barrenness of these great moors, Exmoor is the land of sweet waters. Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland For several years she had borne no children, and Henry was urged to put her away on the ground of barrenness. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 Then upon the earth did there come dearth and drought and barrenness. A Book of Myths On the view of 'furfural-yielding' being co-extensive with 'pentose or pentosane,' not only were a number of important facts obscured or misinterpreted, but there was a barrenness of suggestion of genetic relationships. Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900 Jesus pronounced upon that tree the sentence of perpetual barrenness. Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern They left their sweet lives or dragged themselves on in misery; Sirius scorched the fields into barrenness; the herbage grew dry, and the sickly harvest denied sustenance. The Aeneid of Virgil “Consider the loneliness, the barrenness, the want of all comfort and of all aid, should aid be needed.” Danger! and Other Stories And if at times one reflected on the barrenness, the wastefulness of war, there still remained the satisfying of the instinct to do one's work well. Pushed and the Return Push It makes the difference between fertility and barrenness; it makes the difference between a cheerful and a melancholy landscape. Impressions of South Africa The little moisture that remains falls upon the highlands of the Great Basin, and so relieves its surface from utter barrenness. The Western United States A Geographical Reader She forgets all the cruel words that have been said, while a terrible compassion for the loneliness, the utter barrenness of his drear old age, grows within her. Molly Bawn Whatever may be our experience of failure and barrenness, He is never defeated. The Calvary Road And not only with the barrenness of our souls can God deal with His quickening breath, but with our difficulties as well: with those things in our surroundings that seem the most unfavourable. Parables of the Cross The mixture of these two give rise to soils of an infinite variety, almost, having many differing degrees of fertility, down to barrenness. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside The way was long; the road ill-formed, leading for the most part across a sere and desolate country, with nothing to relieve its barrenness except long stretches of the great spear-headed reeds. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida Sterility or barrenness is a condition of inability to have children. Woman Her Sex and Love Life As yet, a boyish delicacy had kept Opdyke from seeking to invade what he knew could not fail to be the barrenness of Scott Brenton's quarters. The Brentons She was sitting on a window-sill in the corridor, pondering on the general barrenness of things, when she suddenly remembered her friends the freshmen in study 321. When Patty Went to College Through the panelled transparent floor, I watched the country changing as we advanced; vegetation dwindling; the soil changing to rocky barrenness at the border of the Cold Country. Tarrano the Conqueror He was also disgusted with the barrenness of the huntress Diana, who was only delivered every year of abortions. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 One generation is not sufficient to remove these feelings; the barrenness of his marriage bed, or the weakly state of his children, are successively speculated upon by the presumptive heir. Newton Forster The Merchant Service Tezcuco, surrounded by barrenness, is not deleterious to life, while the fresh-water lagunas, though continually changing their volume, render Mexico unhealthy in summer by the gases which they exhale from decaying vegetation. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited From the barrenness and formalism of the earlier period, we now have the demand made that the school should throughout take into account the real and practical necessities of life. The Children: Some Educational Problems But this long barrenness was atoned for by a burst of inspiration which came on him, in the fall of 1790, and struck off at one heat the matchless Tale of Tam o' Shanter. Robert Burns But, for all that, their brains wither under luxury, often by their own vices or tomfooleries, and mental barrenness is the result. Pushing to the Front There was not a single tree, nor a scrap of foliage anywhere in sight, to afford a moment’s shelter:—all was barrenness; parching heat; death! She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. With the sea washing it on either side, it is a country of drought and barrenness. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited It has changed people from selfishness to unselfishness; from cowardice to courage; from despair to hope; from vulgarity to decency; from barrenness of life to fruitfulness. The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book Upon this hill she seated herself, and was occupied in bewailing her fatal misfortune of barrenness, and in praying the Great Spirit to avert it, when some one whispered at her shoulder, "Namata-washta!" Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 Another reason why barrenness is disgraceful, is, that it is considered to be brought on by incontinence or wilful abortions. Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 Behind these solid dams the water from the rains and the melting snow of the mountains was backed for miles, and was at once ready to change barrenness into fruitfulness. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition Wherever irrigation was possible at small expense, there an oasis made its appearance, which was in striking contrast to the general barrenness that prevailed. Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited If we are right, it is no more than a first furrow in the crust of a soil which hitherto the historians have been contented to leave in its barrenness. Short Studies on Great Subjects Hanging never had been popular in Ascalon, mainly because of the barrenness of the country, which offered no convenient branches except on the cottonwoods along the river. Trail's End There was the same general barrenness: only a few hackberry trees, willows, and a cottonwood or two along the margin of the river made up the vegetation. 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 We could have produced the same barrenness and frenzy of nothingness in people, perhaps, by dinning it into them that every man is just a charnel-house skeleton of unclean bones. Fantasia of the Unconscious She recalled, dully, the strange sequence of events that had transformed her from a squatter's brat and lifted her out of the bleak barrenness of life in the shack. The Secret of the Storm Country Not a solitary vestige of anything green was there to enliven the barrenness. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught It has found its way down here: and oddly enough does your Italian scenery, painted, I believe, very faithfully upon my inner eye, contrast with the British barrenness of the Field of Naseby. Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1 Here the ploughing-ceremony was to induce fertility for the benefit of the witches, while the draught animals and all the parts of the plough connoted barrenness for the owner of the soil. The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology They are very old-fashioned, and they are very happy: they consider barrenness the greatest possible misfortune. Women's Wild Oats Essays on the Re-fixing of Moral Standards It appears certain that the barrenness of this desert land necessitated these wandering tribes to migrate to adjacent areas of greater fertility. The Necessity of Atheism Lacking images, however, imagination is handicapped, and its meager products reveal in their barrenness and their lack of warmth and reality the poverty of material. The Mind and Its Education The landscape looked hard in the fiery sunshine, the shapes of the mountains fierce and relentless, the dry watercourses almost bitter in their barrenness. The Call of the Blood Their place is beside the old stone-flagged path, and I picture them rising tall against the side of the woodshed, whose barrenness I have besides more than half covered with honeysuckle. More Jonathan Papers To neglect these throws one off the ring; and, with rare exceptions, isolation is barrenness and death. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 There is such a thing as a conceited simplicity, and there is a technical simplicity, that in its barrenness and insipidity is worthy only of a simpleton. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 The Teuton wife is ashamed of barrenness and considers it proper for women to be fully sexed in feeling. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Half-way through the wadi the road has on one side a deep, gloomy gorge, while on the other stretch gaunt hills terrible in their desolation and stony barrenness. With Our Army in Palestine Even the elevations of this volcanic island had their barrenness alleviated by growths of greenery which seemed entirely to cover them. Around the World in Ten Days Many teachers already recognize the necessity for it and see before them a land of plenty as compared with the half-desert barrenness revealed in our present school course. The Elements of General Method Based on the Principles of Herbart Babylonia to utter barrenness and desolation; but a different and still more incredible doom is pronounced in the Bible upon Judea and its people. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity The lowest caste who are not privileged, and indeed have no disposition in the native barrenness of their minds to study the sacred Vedas. Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems Disillusionment came later, as it does everywhere in the East, yet on that spring morning Khan Yunus, shining like an emerald, came as balm to eyes weary with the aching barrenness of the desert. With Our Army in Palestine The Syrian women still employ it as a charm against barrenness, as did the devotees of Mithras and Saba-Zeus. Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry The log cabin had been sheathed to keep it warm and tight, and to conceal its barrenness on the walls had been tacked a few gaily colored prints. The Story of Porcelain The barrenness of Judaism is done away in him, and the emptiness of Rationalistic criticism is successfully met by the fullness found in Christianity. History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology The utter bleak barrenness of the man and his life came home to her, struggling with her gratitude, her sense of duty. The Sagebrusher A Story of the West It does look pretty well—much better than I should have thought it could, when I first saw it in its barrenness. On Christmas Day In The Evening They had come from the land of bleakness and barrenness—from the place of leafless trees—into the region of Summer, almost in a day and night. The Outdoor Girls in Florida Or, Wintering in the Sunny South The former has spent its force, demonstrated its falsity and barrenness, lost irretrievably its opportunity, and is hurrying to its doom. The Promised Day Is Come Rarely did I pass here without seeing two or three childless wives on their knees, praying to the goddess to remove from them the sin of barrenness. An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma In climate it is subtropical; in character of soil it shows a contrast of comparative barrenness and abounding fertility; and in topography it is a plain, with hardly any perceptible natural elevations or depressions. The Seminole Indians of Florida Fifth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1883-84, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1887, pages 469-532 Everywhere in nature, fog and fire, fertility and barrenness, were in conflict; everywhere in society, law and crime were contending. The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life "Where is the house?" she asked, bewildered by the barrenness of the spot on which the topsy turvy house had stood for so many years. The Way of the Wind The very barrenness of the soil, the ring of enemies, the soft moral and social texture of the population, have, so their little knot of rulers think, made necessary these harsh, artificial forcing methods. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View It was a choice little harbor, a good way north of the Arctic Circle,—fairly within the realm of hyperborean barrenness,—very near the northernmost border of civilized settlement. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 117, July, 1867. It was a period of barrenness in both countries. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Dexter Allison had left brilliant men of cross-examination panting impotently at the barrenness of their efforts; he had known it and enjoyed it to the full. Then I'll Come Back to You A bony face, with a high narrow forehead and steel-blue inexpressive eyes, suggested a barrenness of mind. The Four Feathers Simplicity, urged almost to the extreme of barrenness, would not be out of place in Othello, and McCullough, in his treatment of the part, testified to his practical appreciation of that truth. Shadows of the Stage Such barrenness of arrangement cannot be relieved by any architecture, nor was there ever a building so good that it could not be improved by a setting of foliage. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 4, April, 1864 And if a woman neither conceives nor bears, she suffers from the defect of barrenness, which outweighs the aforesaid punishments. Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Clumps of evergreens stood out in full disclosure against the white ground; the bare branches of neighbouring trees in all their barrenness, had a wild prospective or retrospective beauty peculiar to themselves. Queechy, Volume II Here and there tufts of grass grew beside the stony track, but they were brown and scorched, and served only to emphasise the barrenness of the land. The Swindler and Other Stories I seemed to see its barrenness and desolation, the cruel deception of its poisonous springs, and its insurmountable walls. I Married a Ranger Sometimes sloth takes on an acute form known as aridity or barrenness in all things that pertain to God. Explanation of Catholic Morals A Concise, Reasoned, and Popular Exposition of Catholic Morals How sad the contrast between the home where nestle happiness, love, contentment, offspring; and the abode of suspicion, deceit, infidelity or barrenness. Manhood Perfectly Restored Prof. Jean Civiale's Soluble Urethral Crayons as a Quick, Painless, and Certain Cure for Impotence, Etc. If we are right, it is no more than a first furrow in the crust of a soil, which hitherto the historians have been contented to leave in its barrenness. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc I was glad of shelter, glad to find a work of human hands, after I had gazed so long on nature's drear barrenness; so I entered, and ascended the rough winding staircase into the guard-room. The Last Man You have clothed the barrenness of the dreary plain with gardens, orchards and forests. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 To redeem them from barrenness, to do the sort of work which our friends have done in the Imperial Valley, is pioneer work. Under Handicap A Novel It is probable that the neglect of this duty is one of the principal causes of spiritual barrenness in the church. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister To me, this unexpected silence and dreary barrenness were astounding; I gazed about me fairly bewildered, almost dreaming for the moment that our foes had lifted the long siege and departed while I slept. When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country It was one of those lovely winter-days which assert the capacity of nature to bestow beauty on barrenness. The Last Man Poverty and dirt and barrenness; those three facts struck the visitor's eye and heart. Wych Hazel As in the flat land below here, there was only barrenness and desolation and solitude. Under Handicap A Novel Thus, like a steady stream, let your graces flow, unaffected by the drought or barrenness of others, melting the icy hearts around you. A Practical Directory for Young Christian Females Being a Series of Letters from a Brother to a Younger Sister There was nothing to guide them, no mark of identification; merely lorn barrenness in the midst of which they wandered, dragging their half-frozen horses. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier Bereft of man, O little isle! the ocean waves will buffet thee, and the raven flap his wings over thee; thy soil will be birth-place of weeds, thy sky will canopy barrenness. The Last Man This became our last permanent camp, and its advantages made up for the barrenness and discomfort of our camp on Calf Creek. The Extermination of the American Bison But you should remember the other critics of art, who ascribe the barrenness of our painting and the necessity of importing continental artists, also to the Reformation. Masques & Phases For, be it this town's barrenness—or else The Man had something in the look of him— His case has struck me far more than 'tis worth. Men and Women Hesitating, his eyes searching the barrenness above to where the stream bent northward and disappeared, he turned at last and tramped downward along the edge of the stream. Molly McDonald A Tale of the Old Frontier The King disavows it; yet he has sayed in publick, he knew not why a woman may not be divorced for barrenness, as a man for impotency. Andrew Marvell To do this reduces life to barrenness; it makes it meagre in energy and pleasure; it makes work a disease. The Quest of the Simple Life Moreover, in the long sittings, to which Ingigerd submitted from vanity, she betrayed the narrowness, the attenuation, the barrenness of her mind. Atlantis But the immediate barrenness of much patient and careful reasoning should not make us think that it is lost labour. Is Life Worth Living? Just what Bob had expected to find in the cabin he could not have told, but its severity and barrenness disappointed him. Bob Chester's Grit From Ranch to Riches Infidelity.—There is but one thing without honor, smitten with eternal barrenness, inability to do or to be,—insincerity, unbelief.—Carlyle. Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age Do not let the new home proclaim by its barrenness that it is the abode of a poor young man asking sympathy and aid of his friends. The Young Man and the World If once that order were overstepped then would be disorder, strife, confusion, barrenness. Ancient Art and Ritual If you continue to bless me with an occasional nosegay when I move into my house, I shall not so bitterly suffer from the barrenness of the garden. Juliana Horatia Ewing And Her Books |
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