Barrenness

Indeed, I have worn out the mortars with beating wool and pounding drugs,186 and I am not to blame; the barrenness is with thee, for that thou art a snub-nosed mule and thy sperm is weak and watery and impregnateth not neither getteth children. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I have said that this condemnation to intellectual barrenness is the strongest proof of the essential servility of woman's position in the eyes of man, and I repeat that statement. ❋ Unknown (1909)

Judea admits of a high state of cultivation, and requires it, in order to be productive; its present barrenness is due to neglect. ❋ Unknown (1871)

How often, gliding by in barrenness, has it cast a shade of unutterable dejection on the dial of a sunless day. ❋ Unknown (1851)

The curse of barrenness is the punishment of the sin of barrenness, as Mark xi. ❋ Unknown (1721)

The sin of barrenness is justly punished with the curse and plague of barrenness; Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. ❋ Unknown (1721)

Now, much of the so-called barrenness of country life is the oak minus the polish. ❋ Unknown (1901)

But hitherto they were not blessed with children, and Mary was jeered at more than once, the people saying that her barrenness was a punishment sent by God. ❋ Unknown (1892)

The infinite lavish fulness of the present quite laughed at the idea of barrenness or want anywhere in time to come. ❋ Susan Warner (1852)

On the northern side are a few scattered dwellings, and some attempts at cultivation; on the southern nothing appears but immense piles of rocks, with bushes, scattered here and there in their hollows and crevices; if their summer appearance conveys the idea of barrenness, their winter appearance must be dreadful in this region of almost everlasting frost and snow. ❋ Benjamin Waterhouse (1800)

Can I ask about your feeling on the barrenness, which is current contract with Hess is expiring fairly soon, what's your accounting factor on keeping fairly seamless utilization for that rig this year? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Thus Italy is very poor in annals, a barrenness which is attributed to the lack of speculative and theological interests in the country. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

They are either incapable of imagining the invisible; or else, in the language of devotion, they are life-long subjects of "barrenness" and "dryness." ❋ Unknown (1902)

The same word is elsewhere in Scripture rendered "barrenness;" He "turneth a fruitful land into barrenness;" -- so that the judgment denounced upon these miry and marshy places is, that the curse of barrenness shall rest upon them, notwithstanding the "waters of the sanctuary overflow them." ❋ 1629-1699 (1856)

"barrenness" and deep "dejection," as the result of drinking, "at the house of a neighbouring clergyman, ... so much wine, that I found some effort and dexterity requisite to balance myself on the hither edge of sobriety." ❋ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1803)

Between stretched the barrenness of sand and alkali and drought. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was too occupied with his own vision, and vividly burned before him the sordid barrenness of a poorhouse ward, where an ancient, very like what he himself would become, maundered and gibbered and drooled for a crumb of tobacco for his old clay pipe, and where, of all horrors, no sip of beer ever obtained, much less six quarts of it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He pushed harder, but the barrenness extended outward in all directions. ❋ Alix Rickloff (2011)

Tuesday: The starkness of the community chapel -- the large wooden cross, the vacancy of the planters, the loss of colors, the sense of barrenness that the loss of the familiar brings--are simply external reminders of the internal emptiness that develops when we barter the real richness of life for the trinkets of living. ❋ OSB Sister Joan Chittister (2011)

[Chavette] one: I heard her doon t' road is barren an' wants a [sprog]. She can have our [Darril] or Chardonnay two...for a price, like.. Chavette two: Innit! ❋ Padawan (2005)

[Nur] [Sabrina] Joe adopted a [sprog] when she learned that she was a barren bitch. ❋ Jackie7826 (2006)

[Look at] Barren being Barren again! [I can’t] [stand] him sometimes. ❋ Bigchuckky (2019)

example of barrens chat barrens [resident] 1: hey guys helpful passerby: yes? barrens resident 1: [THATS WHAT SHE SAID]! barrens resident 2: reported barrens resident 3:reported for [reporting]. ❋ Toxicwhirl (2006)

[Jane]: How was [yesterday night]? [Salinah]: It was great! I had sex with a barren gee! ❋ HairyPotter11 (2013)

Leveling Player: Where's [Mankrik's Wife]? Barrens Mongrel 1: my bedroom Barrens Mongrel 2: you fag Barrens Mongrel 3: reported Barrens Mongrel 4: reported for reporting Mediator: STFU GUYS YOU ARE ALL FUCKING LAME Barrens Mongrel 2: NO U DUMBASS Leveling Player: where's [mankrik's wife] plzzzz pst me Passerby: fucking [Barrens chat]... Barrens Mongrel 4: reported Barrens Mongrel 2: reported for reporting Barrens Mongrel 5: stfu fatasses, Chuck Norris will knock all your teeth out Barrens Mongrel 3: stfu Barrens Mongrel 1: no u Guild Advertiser: is now recruiting! We have 3 bank tabs and a friendly community! pst for invite or more info! Barrens Mongrel 7: stfu nobody cares about ur guild dumbfuck etc. etc. etc. ❋ Trolldestroyer (2009)

The barrens chat was [rather] [lame] [last night]. ❋ Lafinicus (2006)

..I [hate] barrens chat. ❋ SquallStrife (2005)

[Latoi] was w/another guy today. It's not going help her [produce] because she is [a nasty] barren whore. ❋ Pachuco (2006)

I love going to the Pine Barrens on a [cold], [crisp] day and looking at all these Great [Shapes] ❋ LIisinvaded (2010)