Then, when he was five-and-twenty, he found himself at the edge of the world gazing in timorous starkness down into the abyss of the Great War.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
The young mountaineer was trudging along one day through a gracious woodland, which even, in the starkness of winter, hinted at the nobility that summer leafage must give to its parklike spaces.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
That strange feeling of starkness never belonged to a human body soft with the pulse of life.
"The Maid of the Whispering Hills"
Vingie E. Roe