He looked out at the lifeless sunset of the world that sported the bare minimum of vegetation so it couldn't be insulted with the word "barren".
"For Every Man A Reason"
Patrick Wilkins
Even then, unless you have brought a mind in harmony, there is little to see, for the spot is so deserted and so lifeless that you seem to have stepped back through centuries, and to be moving in some old-world time.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
We were alone-alone in a lifeless world.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook