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As the OCEL is concerned with language, per se, one would expect such entries to treat the writer's style, and, indeed, the entry on MELVILLE does so; but the treatment is uneven: that for CONRAD, aside from quoting a passage from Heart of Darkness , is barren of comment on language, and that for BURGESS focuses on a quotation of nadtsat' from A Clockwork Orange , with no mention of the author's position (at least in the UK ) as a language guru.
The islands’ barren landscapes and stark white, cubical houses with their blue-shuttered windows bedecked with geraniums represent the Greek islands to many.
Mr. Arthur Lee mentioned some Scotch who had taken possession of a barren part of America, and wondered why they would choose it.
The earliest sediments after the mass extinction that did away with the dinosaurs are barren of fossils: so it is not just that species were going extinct, conditions for life itself were bad.
A major attraction near Datong is the Temple Suspended Over the Void (Xuankongsi), situated a two-hour drive south through a barren sandstone plateau.