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Barrenness Bashfulness (See TIMIDITY.) Andermatt, Christiane takes series of baths hoping to cure childlessness. [Fr. Lit.: Mont-Oriol, Magill I, 618–620] novel portraying a woman’s emotional sterility and her harsh labor on a farm. [Am. Lit.: Barren Ground] symbol of unfruitfulness. [Color Symbolism: Jobes, 357] sterile, arid basin in Nevada and California. [Geography: EB, III: 417] Virgin’s kinswoman, blessed with pregnancy as old woman. [N.T.: Luke 1:5–25]
vast desert in the Arabian peninsula. [Geography: EB, VIII: 703] barren wife; prays to Lord who grants her a son, Samuel. [O.T.: I Samuel 1:6] vast north African desert. [Geography: EB, VIII: 768] Abraham’s wife; unable to bear children. [O.T.: Genesis 11:30] portrays sterility and chaos of the contemporary world. [Br. Lit.: “The Waste Land” in Hart, 899–900] How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| From various points of the mountain they commanded boundless prospects of the lava plain, stretching away in cold and gloomy barrenness as far as the eye could reach. He was too occupied with his own vision, and vividly burned before him the sordid barrenness of a poorhouse ward, where an ancient, very like what he himself would become, maundered and gibbered and drooled for a crumb of tobacco for his old clay pipe, and where, of all horrors, no sip of beer ever obtained, much less six quarts of it. I remember to have heard it, then and there, said, that the Blessed Land was once fertile as the bottoms of the Mississippi, and groaning with its stores of grain and fruits; but that the judgment has since fallen upon it, and that it is now more remarkable for its barrenness than any qualities to boast of. |
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