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barrenness
1. Almost as though observing from a distance, I watch my other self flounder as doubts about my chances of concluding the quest with any degree of success become definite, bottomless failure; my perennial loneliness becomes an old age of isolation in a world slowly spiralling down into barrenness and desolation as I eek out my days, hated by those who remain here … the few who could not escape across … Berndt’s face stares at me, full of the loathing he feels for my failure
2. Barrenness, so frequent among women of fashion, is very rare among those of inferior station
3. Some coal mines, advantageously situated, cannot be wrought on account of their barrenness
4. It is limited by the local situation of the country, by the proximity or distance of its different provinces from the sea, by the number of its lakes and rivers, and by what may be called the fertility or barrenness of those seas, lakes, and rivers, as to this sort of rude produce
5. The quantity of the precious metals which is to be found in any country, is not limited by any thing in its local situation, such as the fertility or barrenness of its own mines
6. Their quantity, in every particular country, seems to depend upon two different circumstances ; first, upon its power of purchasing, upon the state of its industry, upon the annual produce of its land and labour, in consequence of which it can afford to employ a greater or a smaller quantity of labour and subsistence, in bringing or purchasing such superfluities as gold and silver, either from its own mines, or from those of other countries; and, secondly, upon the fertility or barrenness of the mines which may happen at any particular time to supply the commercial world with those metals
7. The quantity of those metals in the countries most remote from the mines, must be more or less affected by this fertility or barrenness, on account of the easy and cheap transportation of those metals, of their small bulk and great value
8. The fertility or barrenness of the mines, however, which may happen at any particular time to supply the commercial world, is a circumstance which, it is evident, may have no sort of connection with the state of industry in a particular country
9. It is a proof only of the barrenness of the mines which happened at that time to supply the commercial world
10. Such taxes, when they have grown up to a certain height, are a curse equal to the barrenness of the earth, and the inclemency of the heavens, and yet it is in the richest and most industrious countries that they have been most generally imposed
11. Before the barrenness of his carved barrack
12. 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it
13. I have sworn to you, you sinners, as the mountain has not become the slave, and a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman; Even so sin has not been sent on the Earth, but man of himself has created it, and under a great curse shall they fall who commit it; And barrenness has not been given to the woman, but on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children
14. I have sworn to you you sinners as the mountain has not become the slave and a hill does not become the handmaid of a woman; Even so sin has not been sent on the Earth but man of himself has created it and under a great curse shall they fall who commit it; And barrenness has not been given to the woman but on account of the deeds of her own hands she dies without children
15. How do you exist knowing that it is because of my barrenness
16. 10 But watch, lest any of you look with disdain upon the children of Abraham because they have fallen on these evil days of traditional barrenness
17. that her barrenness she not forget
18. 8 At this time Jesus sought to expose the spiritual barrenness of the first two practices, while he reserved his remarks designed to rebuke the Pharisees' refusal to engage in social intercourse with non-Pharisees for another and subsequent occasion when he would again be dining with many of these same men
19. If I may add that this is quite a terrible affair and one that is very destructive, leaving in its wake barrenness and death
20. In the barrenness of the terrain, he spied a single
21. Hagar became pregnant as a result of Sarah’s barrenness
22. He informed the audience that all efforts in the past to uncover the cause of their barrenness proved abortive, and that something mysteriously shielded the source of their predicament from the vision of diviners, seers and prayer houses they had visited in the past
23. blessing from God, while barrenness was considered a curse and
24. But I have walked the barrenness
25. “ The red candles on the right signify ripeness and abundance and the white candles on the left signify the barrenness of the coming winter months
26. Because they had poisoned their own seminal seed with the barrenness of their own evils
27. Unconcerned by the barrenness of these parts, a thick canopy of foliage
28. the lush terrain succumbing to the encroaching barrenness of the south
29. love to hide in the barrenness of the south with little chance of returning, or should they
30. Idumea is a complete picture of barrenness
31. It is because of its extreme barrenness that it descends to such expedients
32. the world saying, for aught they knew, the big wind of last February a year that did havoc the land so pitifully a small thing beside this barrenness
33. Thus temperance makes men lords over those pleasures that intemperance enslaves them to: the one, parent of health, vigour fertility cheerfulness, and every other desirable good of life; the other, of diseases, debility, barrenness, self-loathing, with only every evil incident to human nature