Steppes
[s'teps]
Examples
- The blood in our veins was brewed on the steppes as well as on the ploughlands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They drifted northward as the snows melted for summer pasture, and southward to winter pasture after the custom of the steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These hunters lived on open steppes for two hundred centuries or so, ten times the length of the Christian era. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It is to be found everywhere, even to the steppes of Asia, the plains of Australia, and the ice fields of the Arctic. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Says Ratzel,[266] Strong, longnecked horses are found in enormous numbers on the steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Children were less eagerly sought by the inhabitants of the food-grudging steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There were forests then in south Russia and in the country which is now Western Turkestan, where now steppes and deserts prevail. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- There was a continual influx of masterful will from the forests, parklands, and steppes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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