And no woman had a right to be standing out there in that empty desert-mountain country.

It was a walk of some miles through empty country, but he had felt like doing it, without conscious reason.

It was a big, wide, empty country and a man couldn't hide easy.

Alison's was clearly the back room on the left, facing west over empty country as far as the eye could see.

Yet he did not so much feel the absence of people, for this had always been empty country.

They rode all day again through empty country, never seeing a horseman, a town, even an animal.

I've felt it before, backpacking into real wilderness, the deep empty country.

But anywhere he chose to stop, there was a hundred miles of empty country behind his head.

The place was marvelously pleasant after the long ride through the dry empty country.

They were driving through what seemed to be marshy, empty country.