Gaudy weeds present a more encouraging spectacle than utter barrenness.

The trees fell behind them, and they seemed to streak upward through an utter barrenness.

The fruit of desolation, it gave back to desolation a quality more melancholy than utter barrenness.

But those only show up in painful relief the utter barrenness of the "region beyond."

The little moisture that remains falls upon the highlands of the Great Basin, and so relieves its surface from utter barrenness.

For a while there is a profit-"itwill serve me my time," the owner says-butthe end is utter barrenness.