Nothing could add to the sterility and the monotony of these mallee scrubs.
They say that mumps rarely causes sterility.
There was dark grey and sterility in the absence of anything remotely friendly, homey, or welcoming.
The 10th century, by means of this illumination of one of the darkest regions of disease, may diminish human suffering enormously, and may make habitable rich and beautiful regions of the earth's surface now, so far as man's work is concerned, condemned to sterility.
It is the startling contrast of the Herati oasis with the vast expanse of comparative sterility that encloses it which has given such a fictitious value to the estimates of the material wealth of the valley of the Hari Rud.
