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In due course he called forth “a grand army of husbandmen … to battle against the timberless prairies,” and on April 10, 1872, established the first Arbor Day.

From Slate • May 25, 2020

We were now near some of the higher cones of the main chain, and could see that they were all entirely timberless, and that triodia grew upon their sides.

From Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, by Giles, Ernest

Early one December afternoon there entered upon this trail from the timberless hills far away to the northward a weary team of six dogs, driven by two men.

From The Silver Horde by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Even the timberless mountains that rose sheer from the westward plain into a tumbling purple-shadowed rampart were Mexican.

From Heart of the Sunset by Beach, Rex Ellingwood

Both of them are remote timberless places in the center of swampy regions.

From The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir by Garvan, John M.