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Meanings of seemed barren in English

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Usage of seemed barren in English
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This liberty is more freely taken in parts which would have otherwise seemed barren.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
2
Our lives in Sparta seemed barren in comparison to Priam's.
Helen of troy
3
The torn-up plain, between, seemed barren of life.
Bruce
4
The summits of the hills seemed barren; and the highest lies between Port Sandwich and the S.W.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume...
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Here and there vast forests extended to the shore, but otherwise the country seemed barren and uninviting.
The Mariner of St. Malo : A chronicle of the voyages of Jacques ...
6
Looking out of the left side of the gondola, the balloon's basket, everything seemed barren and dead.
Mistress of the game
7
Sometimes my efforts seemed barren of results, but only in eternity may we learn of the good accomplished through faithful seed-sowing.
Fifteen Years with the Outcast
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The novel particularly seemed barren and unprofitable to them, more and more an instrument of science than a branch of literature.
Young Lives
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He could neither think of the happy past without pangs of pain, nor yet face a future which seemed barren of hope and promise.
French and English: A Story of the Struggle in America
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Spencer stared out the side window at a landscape that seemed barren in spite of the many trees and murky in spite of the sunshine.
Dark rivers of the heart
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