Wotton Wade, this old manor, timberless and bare, was all that remained, and its master rarely visited it. ❋ Unknown (2004)
At five and a half miles changed course to 355 degrees; at ten miles first part over firm, small, stony plains, good country; then at four miles crossed a salty timberless creek; and then over a succession of salt swampy flats with grassy plots intervening. ❋ John McKinlay (N/A)
Both of them are remote timberless places in the center of swampy regions. ❋ John M. Garvan (N/A)
The state contains vast tracts of waterless and timberless regions, forming arid and monotonous plains, and in some cases appalling deserts, but is nevertheless rich elsewhere in agricultural, forest, and grazing resources. ❋ Martin [Editor] Hume (1919)
From my vantage-point on the ridge I had an unobstructed view of the encampment, a great circle of tepees and tents three miles in circumference, cradled in a sag of the timberless hills. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
Early one December afternoon there entered upon this trail from the timberless hills far away to the northward a weary team of six dogs, driven by two men. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
Even the timberless mountains that rose sheer from the westward plain into a tumbling purple-shadowed rampart were Mexican. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
The bleak, timberless shores of the bay; their tiny tent, crouched fearfully among the willow tops; the silent nights, when in the clear, cold air the stars stared at him close and big, like eyes of wolves beyond a camp fire; the days of endless gabblings from the sinking man, and the all pervading cold. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
To her right towered timberless mountains, unpeopled, unexplored, forbidding, and desolate -- their hollows inlaid with snow. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
It was a slow and tiresome trip, along the dreary shores of Behring Sea, over timberless tundras, across inlets where the new ice bent beneath their weight and where the mail-carrier cautiously tested the footing with the head of his ax. ❋ Rex Ellingwood Beach (1913)
So they crawled on persistently, and eventually, ahead of them over the desert, white tents glowed pink in the sunlight like toadstools in a great timberless pasture, and their first trip was nearing its end. ❋ Arthur Preston Hankins (1906)
The terrible position to which loss of supplies had reduced the traders of Kadiak when his own vessel was wrecked at Oonalaska on the way out, demonstrated to Baranof the need of more ships; so when orders came from his company in 1793 to construct a sailing boat on the timberless island of Kadiak without iron, without axes, without saw, without tar, without canvas, he was eager to attempt the impossible. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Again and again, when we landed on the level or rocky shore and all hands set out to pick up the few pencil-thick stems of creeping birch, roots of annual plants, or wisps of grass to boil the kettle, old Weeso would wander off by himself and in five minutes return with an armful of the most amazingly acceptable firewood conjured out of the absolutely timberless, unpromising waste. ❋ Ernest Thompson Seton (1903)
Countless canoes drove past the slower and mightier scow brigades; huge York boats with two rows of oars heaved up and down like the ancient galleys of Rome; tightly woven cribs of timber, and giant rafts made tip of many cribs were ready for their long drift into a timberless country. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)
Here at an altitude of 11,000 feet or more (3354 meters), along mountain ranges of primitive rock yielding only a scant and sterile soil, terraces are laboriously constructed; their surfaces are manured with burnt remains of animal excrements, which must first serve as fuel in this timberless land before they are applied to the ground. ❋ Ellen Churchill Semple (1897)
The highlander of Armenia or northern Mesopotamia floats down the current in his skin boat or on his brushwood raft, to sell his goods and the wood forming the frame-work of his primitive craft in timberless Bagdad and ❋ Ellen Churchill Semple (1897)
Manifestly the country was well populated, and therefore presumably practically timberless; consequently the flood water would rapidly pass away and the streams not be choked by drift and other débris as is the case at present. ❋ Gerard Fowke (1894)
The mountains embrace probably twenty thousand acres of open, timberless lands producing considerable pasture. ❋ Unknown (1882)
On the north-west border of the log-pavement a massive ladder of oak was found, one end resting on the margin of the log-pavement and the other projecting obliquely into the timberless zone between the former and the outer woodwork. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
The importation of lumber from Florida, Louisiana, and Northern ports, employs a large number of vessels yearly, for Galveston stands in a timberless region; there is not an acre of forest land for miles on miles around. ❋ Unknown (1875)
