What is "barrenly"

Usage examples of "barrenly".

Those who had saved my life, whom, till this hour, I had loved barrenly, I could now benefit.

He himself, very timid and conscious of his awkwardness, sat near, trying barrenly to get some of his thoughts out of his brain on to his tongue.

Mountains whose name he had never learned, though he had come through this way going east or west so many times, rose barrenly a few miles to the east.