barrenness
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In the Last Essays of Elia there is one by Charles Lamb entitled Barrenness of the Imaginative Faculty in the Production of Modern Art.
From Promenades of an Impressionist by Huneker, James
Barrenness and Sterility When a cow persistently fails to breed and bear young, she is said to be barren.
From Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry by Pratt Food Co.
Barrenness and cold have descended on all the body of the earth.
From Light by Wray, Fitzwater
Barrenness in the personal life is the price many a man has paid for public honours.
From Roads from Rome by Allinson, Anne C. E. (Anne Crosby Emery)
Of the Green-Sickness in Virgins, with its causes, signs and cures; together with the chief occasions of Barrenness in Women, and the Means to remove the Cause, and render them fruitful.
