barrens

Finally, we came to a little ditch which some forgotten cranberry-grower had dug through the barrens to a long-deserted bog.

Started as soon as daylight; about seven miles more of barrens without a house or trace of civilization.

On the hillsides facing the river, where there were barrens, we found more.

The journey proved a long and trying one, through swamps and barrens, and over rock-tumbled knolls.

We bes four poor men from 'way to the nor'ard, sir, a-huntin' deer on the barrens.

Never had the thought of sacrificing Fleur as a last resort entered the mind of Marcel in the lean days on the barrens.

There were only two settlements in The Barrens, and depots were to be erected there.

For some reason they were unwilling to leave a small chain of barrens.

The word spread all up and down the river and into the back settlements, and folks would come from out of the barrens to see it.

The bottom-lands through which the river wound to the southwest were more inviting than the barrens he had traversed.