Meanings of sterile soil in English

They were sterile soil; Thou hast made them the rose-garden of significances.

The seeds of ill grow best in the most sterile soil.

But the task of bringing forth computers from sterile soil proved too difficult.

The suspect spots in the main room yielded only sterile soil.

The sterile soil would at least have been proof against a low-land degeneracy.

There are rocks and clefts and patches of sterile soil.

When seeds are cast upon sterile soil, no growth follows.

Things that hold death within them include all weapons, sterile soil, bitter cold, and fire.

The first had yielded nothing but sterile soil.

Because of the comparatively rocky, sterile soil the woods were thinner here, and the undergrowth was greater.

Here they were out of the sands, and upon hard, sterile soil covered with small stones embedded in the earth.

It is this which makes the garden soil different from sand, or the rich soil different from the sterile soil.

Arrived in Russia the French were soon disappointed; gloomy forests and sterile soil met the eye, all was sad and silent.

Experiments were executed in 2 years, and comprised clonally propagated plants of each genotype grown in sterile soil, inoculated with G. intraradices or non-inoculated.

Its very roughness of outline, and its sterile soil, explained the barrenness and desolation- ano-man'sland, impossible of cultivation, it remained neglected and unused.

So the Powers are poor farmers, scratching a difficult living out of sterile soil, instead of being well-to-do proprietors of a profitable estate of wood-land.