Frozen swamps across which the storm wind swept with hurricane force were succeeded by high, rocky barrens devoid of game, unsheltered, with barely enough stunted shrubbery for the whittling of chips that cooked the morning and night meals.
He climbed the path to the edge of the barrensand turned to the north.
The skipper pictured him in his clear mind as lying somewhere out on the barrens with the red-bound casket clutched in a frozen hand.
The skipper was overtaken and joined by his young brother at the edge of the barrens above Chance Along.
Children who were playing a game called "deer-hunting" on the barrens behind the harbor were the first to know of the priest's approach.
East and southeast winds brought fog and mild rains, the ice rotted along the land-wash and the snow dwindled from the barrens and left dripping hummocks and patches of black bog exposed.
The girl turned and entered the house, and the skipper went up the path at the back of the harbor and wandered over the snowy barrens for hours.
He gazed abroad over the sodden, gloomy barrens and reflected bitterly that the treasure lay there in some pit or hollow, in a dead man's pocket, perhaps within shouting-distance of where he stood.
He had made four miles of his journey when he halted, turned and looked back along the desolate barrens and the irregular edge of the cliffs.
As they reached the broken edge of the barrens above Chance Along she spoke for the third time.
The three searched thebarrens all day, from sun-up to dark, north, south and inland.
Have you ever crossed the barrens straight north--between the Mackenzie an' the Bay?
Already they were in debt to the company, and until the debt was paid they could expect nothing, and a long trip into the barrens would call for much in the way of supplies.
Would ye send ye're man to die in the barrens for the gold that ain't there?
They were a degenerate lot and old Wananebish had grown weary in trying to get them back into the barrens where there was gold.
The sun came out and the barrensglared dazzling white.
Mile after mile he swung across the barrens that lay trackless, and white, and dead, skirting towering rock ledges and patches of scraggly timber.
Cranes are less aquatic than Herons and are often found feeding on the prairies or pine-barrens where worms, grasshoppers, lizards, roots, etc.
The little establishment at theBarrens was for many years in a pitiable condition of destitution.
The institution at the Barrens was deeply in debt.
Mr. Timon was accustomed to make a regular missionary circuit of fifteen or twenty miles around the Barrens in company with Father Odin, afterward Archbishop of New Orleans.
They passed high above snow-barrens and seal-rookeries and colonies of penguins, the inhabitants of which latter cocked their heads up inquiringly at the big bird flying by far above them.
Yet the path to the tilt at Poor Luck Barrens lay across and beyond Ha-ha Shallow of Rattle Water.
It was a situation that appealed to the imagination of two chivalrous boys--a woman all alone on Poor Luck Barrens with a madman.
T' get t' Poor Luck Barrens a man would have t' skirt the Arm t' Rattle Water an' cross the stream.
They goes trappin' on Poor Luck Barrens in the winter.
No; what was alarming at Poor Luck Barrens was not a frenzy of insanity--it was the delirium of pneumonia.
No progress was made among the whites, except in the white counties among the hills of north Alabama and in the pine barrens of the southeast.
For months after the end of the war the inhabitants of the hill and mountain districts of north Alabama and of the pine barrens of south Alabama were on the verge of starvation, and a number of deaths actually occurred.
They say the barrens are full of mayflowers," said the Story Girl.
When we finished our lunch the barrens were already wrapping themselves in a dim, blue dusk and falling upon rest in dell and dingle.
It was a "tote road" merely, cutting across these barrens by the directest possible route.
What would he have done with that baggage out here in this lonesome wilderness of unbroken barrens and mud?
With it he felt out the rocky barrens for a landing-place.
Stern shuddered, and with redoubled haste once more pushed through the vague path he and Beatrice had made from the barrens to Settlement Miffs.
It will be something of a task, but I don't dare leave them out there on the barrens till night, when the men themselves could bring them in.
It was a strange tree, weird and black, free of stub or bough for a hundred feet, and from far out on the barrens those who traveled their solitary ways east and west knew that it was a monument shaped by men.
The next day it was Croisset who went along the edge of the Barrens for meat.
It was on one of these days that Jean had gone along the edge of the caribou swamp that lay between the barrens and the higher forest.
He plunged into it now, picking his tangled way until he stood upon a giant ridge, from which he looked out through the white night into the limitless barrens to the north.
Jan Thoreau, I've never seen you drive like that since the night we were chased in from the barrens by the wolves!
I'm going to prospect the big swamp along the edge of the Barrens this summer," he explained soon, laughing to relieve the tension.
In the last days of the second week, he spent much of his time skirting the edge of the barrens in search of caribou, that there might be meat in plenty when the dogs and men returned a little later.
From all its gorges, precipices and barrens there came not a single sound.
Another time, as the old wolf ranged along the edges of the barrenswhere the caribou herds were gathering, he would hear the challenge of a huge stag and the warning crack of twigs and the thunder of hoofs as the brute charged.
To be caught out on thebarrens meant to be lost; and to be lost here without fire and shelter meant death, swift and sure.
Like a shadow the big wolf that Mooka was watching changed his place so as to head the game, while two of the pack on the open barrens slipped around the caribou and turned him back again to the woods.
After the plover came the ducks in myriads, filling the ponds and flashets of the vast barrens with tumultuous quacking; and the young wolves learned, like the foxes, to decoy the silly birds by rousing their curiosity.
On this March morning he had started with Mooka at daylight to cross the mountains to some great barrens where he had found tracks and knew that a few herds of caribou were still feeding.
It was fortunate she was ahead of time, for scarcely was she done when Le Beau came into the edge of the clearing, and with him was Durant, his acquaintance and rival from the edge of the Barrens farther north.
In the open barrens no living creature could stand upon its feet.
They were getting tired of the dry moss and lichen of the barrens which lay a week's journey northward from the clearing.
Now it chanced that all the way down from the barrens Ten-Tine and his little herd had been hungrily pursued, although they did not know it.
For a moment the Master stood there with blank eyes, peering out over the burning, tawny desolation of the great sand-barrens that stretched away, away, to boundless immensity.
Over blood-colored stretches swept by the volcano-breath of the desert, through acacia barrens and across basaltic ridges the two lonely figures struggled on and on.
The Congaree River, flowing southeast out of the Blue Ridge, intersects the extensive Pine Barrens of South Carolina, and here on the railway route from Asheville via Spartansburg to Charleston is the South Carolina State capital, Columbia.
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 sandbarrens along the Atlantic coast usually are forest areas.
Bordering the sand-barrens is a belt of land that produces grain and the sugar-beet.
The coast sand-barrens have been converted into pasture-lands that produce draught-horses, beef cattle, and dairy cattle.
The Flemish horses, like those of the sand-barrens of Germany and France, are purchased in the large cities, where heavy draught-horses are required.
But you can go into the pinebarrens any bright summer day and capture for yourself a real live saurian.
They are the aborigines, the primitive people of the barrens; and it is to the lean, sandy barrens you must go if you would see the swifts at home.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barrens" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: barrens; brush; bush; desert; desolation; heath; waste; wasteland; wild; wilderness
