Soulwhere kindred kindness No early promise woke, Barren is thy beauty, As weed upon a rock.

I can also discriminate bulls with auspicious marks, the scent of whose urine may make even the barren being forth child.

Dismally barren and lonesome was that desolate bar between the bay and the ocean.

It must be admitted that the Greek astronomers, however barren were their general theories, laid the foundation of science.