Over and over again I looked out of small windows at the bleak land.

I could make out a bleak land of white and jagged peaks.

The higher they climbed, the more the bleak land spread out below them.

And then we can all flee this bleak land.

The bleak land could not have been more different from the lush mountain home they were forced to give up.

Many of them looked to have been worked by hands, though now they lay tumbled and ruinous in a bleak, barren land.

But in this bleak land, no spot seemed preferable to any other.

The men who planned this are from a cold bleak land in the north, they do not understand the African soul.

Nothing except the grass moved anywhere in the bleak, empty land.

A melancholy people in a bleak land that suffers a dreary climate, he told himself.