At the side of the road stood a huge oak, on the trunk of which there was a grayish, Barkless strip about the width and length of a medium-sized man, and hanging from a bough above was an uprooted grape-vine.
"Dixie Hart"
Will N. Harben
24. The Barkless dog bites ill.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
The hard, dead trees raised their Barkless and whitened trunks and leafless branches for three or four miles, and the grey and brown grass stood tall between, dying in the first breaths of the coming drought.
"Joe Wilson and His Mates"
Henry Lawson