On the sides of some mountains which from a distance appeared barren they saw furze-bushes about twenty-six feet high.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
It is partly for the same reason that certain rocks are more barren of organic remains than others.
"Geology"
James Geikie
The barren rocks, the wastes of snow-fields, the mountains stripped of earlier ice-sheets, and every phase of the landscape, assured a new interest.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook