Deliberately he looked away, squinted across barren sands toward the mountains fifty miles inland.
"Outside the domes there is only barren sand and air that living people can't breathe."
The area around the ship is mostly barren sand with occasional conch and hogfish.
"1 employ it in a good cause, against the wicked creatures that turned the old forests into barren sand."
Then he let the fragments drop back to the barren sand.
If anyone came, they'd come from there-the other way there was only barren sand.
He could see the magic glistening like streams of gold dust among the barren sand that had been his life.
The ground below was barren gray sand, clear of refuse and raked smooth.
I stormed across the wet barren sands towards the thin line of sea on the distant horizon.
The increased plant life over the barren sand provides shelter for small mammals.