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Wotton Wade, this old manor, timberless and bare, was all that remained, and its master rarely visited it.

For the term of his natural life 2004

At five and a half miles changed course to 355 degrees; at ten miles first part over firm, small, stony plains, good country; then at four miles crossed a salty timberless creek; and then over a succession of salt swampy flats with grassy plots intervening.

McKinlay's Journal of Exploration in the Interior of Australia John McKinlay

Both of them are remote timberless places in the center of swampy regions.

The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan

The state contains vast tracts of waterless and timberless regions, forming arid and monotonous plains, and in some cases appalling deserts, but is nevertheless rich elsewhere in agricultural, forest, and grazing resources.

Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

From my vantage-point on the ridge I had an unobstructed view of the encampment, a great circle of tepees and tents three miles in circumference, cradled in a sag of the timberless hills.

Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Early one December afternoon there entered upon this trail from the timberless hills far away to the northward a weary team of six dogs, driven by two men.

The Silver Horde Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

Even the timberless mountains that rose sheer from the westward plain into a tumbling purple-shadowed rampart were Mexican.

Heart of the Sunset Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

The bleak, timberless shores of the bay; their tiny tent, crouched fearfully among the willow tops; the silent nights, when in the clear, cold air the stars stared at him close and big, like eyes of wolves beyond a camp fire; the days of endless gabblings from the sinking man, and the all pervading cold.

Pardners Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

To her right towered timberless mountains, unpeopled, unexplored, forbidding, and desolate -- their hollows inlaid with snow.

The Spoilers Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

It was a slow and tiresome trip, along the dreary shores of Behring Sea, over timberless tundras, across inlets where the new ice bent beneath their weight and where the mail-carrier cautiously tested the footing with the head of his ax.

Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913