Word: barren
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Godhead known, and witness with the blood. 'Tis thine the blood to apply, and give us eyes to see, Who did for every sinner die, hath surely died for me. The favorite Negro Methodist hymn: Joy is a fruit that will not grow In nature's barren soil; All we can boast, till Christ we know, Is vanity and toil...
Isolated in the "Arizona Strip," a barren district near the Utah border, live a people called the Brethren of the United Order, expelled years ago from the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. Quietly and religiously certain Brethren have been practicing polygamy. Bothering no one, they might have continued to do so had not U. S. relief agents found it out last month. Families of Brethren, reported agents, run from nine to 15 children. Specifically, one 18-year-old had three wives. On this information County Attorney Elmo Bellinger charged into the "Strip," began serving warrants...
...hours the lost pair stumbled over the barren Valley floor, their feet blistered, their lips cracked, their tongues swollen. Often crossing their own footprints, they realized they were circling hopelessly. At last, completely exhausted, they lay down beside a dry mudhole to await their fate. There last week a searching airplane pilot finally spied little Agnes feebly waving a blanket...
...stone in Pan American Airways' long strides across the Pacific from San Francisco to Canton. Some 5,000 miles west of San Francisco, Wake consists of three low coral atolls, the largest but four miles long, surrounded by a dangerous reef. There is no drinking water, but, unlike barren Midway Island, the verdure of umbrella and hardwood trees is jungle-thick. Everywhere are coral boulders, hermit crabs, squawking birds. Nowhere is there a harbor for ships...
Queen Victoria's mother belonged to the New Church, as does Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip. present at the Detroit convention. Publishers Clarence Barren of the Wall Street Journal and John Bigelow of the New York Evening Post were members. Contemplation in a New Church church in London inspired Poet William Blake to write his "Songs of Innocence." In formal or spiritual fellowship Swedenborgians also claim Goethe, Wagner, Berlioz, Balzac, Coleridge, Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Emerson, Thoreau, Victor Hugo, Henry James, Andrew Carnegie, Maeterlinck, Yeats, Helen Keller, Elbert Hubbard, Amelita Galli-Curci and Eddie Guest...