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Meanings of barren rock in English

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Usage of barren rock in English
1
The cold and heat upon its absolutely barren rock must be alike intolerable.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
2
The barren rock islands on the east rose blue-gray from a blue sea.
Septimus
3
On this barren rock they had now existed for nine days.
The Mysterious Island
4
My dearest neighbour, why preferrest thou that dry barren rock to feed on?
Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories
5
They were on a barren rock in the Gulf Stream.
Golden Days for Boys and Girls, Vol. XIII, Nov. 28, 1891
6
The mountain which we had passed was a barren rock of flint and chalk.
Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
7
They reached the barren rock outcrop shortly, and the two Dillians unhitched the wagon.
Quest for the well of souls
8
Had they not slowly murdered his Emperor on their barren rock in the sea?
Castle Nowhere
9
Napoleon died upon the barren rock of his exile.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Fr...
10
Nothing but barren rock, hot sun, and whining wind.
Jurassic Park
11
The aspect of the barren rock, engulfed in the fumes, was only what he had expected.
As It Was in the Beginning
12
The faintly beaten path disappeared at times on the barren rock, or under some recent land-slide.
Led Astray and The Sphinx / Two Novellas In One Volume
13
But surely Halsskär was just a barren rock?
Depths
14
The walls and floor were still barren rock.
Earth Afire
15
All dead, the world a hot, barren rock.
The mammoth book of the best of best new sf
16
Mount Misery is one barren rock without a blade of grass on all its dark iron-like surface.
Cord and Creese
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