Eudaemon III: Rebirth / Act II, Part 6
And seized zerrex's ankle in a tight grip, then dragged him downwards with enough force to tear the drakkaren through the solid cement and into the earth below, zerrex covering his face with his arms as he cried out in agony, tasting dirt and rock and barren earth
Enochian: Book 2, Chapter 19
This place was like the hell people imagined when the topic was brought up: pools of magma, cracked, barren earth, and enormous rocks with dead soldier demons chained all over them... and zerrex snarled furiously as ose hissed: "you can't flee now, lord zerrex
The Broken Road - Chapter 1
The other, who stood more than a head above the cheetah had also removed the visor, a tiger, who had a long scar trailing from beneath an eyepatch, like a ruin of red barren earth going clear to his chin.
Extinction 1 - Of Fathers and Sons
Skidded down the slope, landing back on the cold streets where carcasses of steel remained with broken headlights dimly glinting, shining the way briefly through a crossing beside a twisted park, trees now stunted with splintered cracks through the barren earth
The Promise 4 - To Her Love
It was not a warmth, but an evil eye that seethed upon their heads and left an eerie impression on the deathless wastes, the barren earth stretching to eternity with only a small camp of two tents and a fire.
Journey to Eden
A slow, hesitant smile spread across nick's face, a fragile, hesitant thing, like the first shoots of green pushing through the cracked, barren earth of a long winter.
Lost Legend of Agrok ch. 6
Even if one was trying to sew the seeds of change to swallow up the barren earth of hate, this is more effort than one servant girl would warrant from a leader with so many issues to juggle as you have.
The Black Collar: The Burden of Truth
On that barren earth he saw a box. his father. his mother. rain. guardian. they flickered into being and spoke to him yet when he turned his head they were gone. seven walls. the worst part was that he frightened nylah.