Plains now rich with harvests would have remained barren moors.

Of course he found simple houses, simple people, barren moors, heather-clad mountains, wild flowers, calm lakes, plain, rugged simplicity.

The devil might have taken the barren moors and drawn off the royal caligae for anything I would have minded.

The house had a strangely homelike look after the barren moors, and Foster, feeling tired and cold, longed to ask for shelter.

The spring was advancing, and brought its soft hues even to the barren moors of Gethin, and bathed its gray rocks in sunshine.