Plains

Examples

• Wandering savages or the inhabitants of open plains rarely possess more than one breed of the same species. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• I have not seen animals that moved faster, unless I might say it of the antelopes of our own great plains. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Many great cities and plains and deserts have been provided with these wells owing to the ease with which they can now be sunk. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In the saddle --abroad on the plains--sleeping in beds bounded only by the horizon: fancy was at work with these things in a moment. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Cities situated in plains and remote from mountains are obliged to utilize the water of such streams as flow through the land, forcing it to the necessary height by means of pumps. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They are generally sunk in valley plains and districts where the formation of the ground is such that that below the surface is bent into basin-shaped curves. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• They were, perhaps, not so far advanced along the nomadic line as the Scythians of the great plains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I bought a pair of horses that had crossed the plains that summer and were very poor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Its hills are covered with vines, and its cottages are scattered thickly in the plains. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The Western Union Company followed the stage-coach across the plains to California, and soon the frontier towns were linked to the large cities of the East. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Napoleon would have whipped the Austrians on the plains. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Elsewhere upon fertile plains and in more open country there were probably already much larger assemblies of homes than in those mountain valleys. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• From that point the railroad had been repaired up to Knoxville and out east to Strawberry Plains. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Guayule is a resinous rubber secured from a two-foot shrub that grows on the arid plains of Texas and Northern Mexico. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Amidst this spreading vegetation of the lower plains the reptiles were increasing mightily in multitude and variety. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I love the open lands, the plains, the mountains, the seas. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Let us descend to the sunny plains of Italy. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• And her pleasure was to ride the young colts, and to scour the plains like Camilla. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Late we envied their abodes, their spicy groves, fertile plains, and abundant loveliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The balance of the population are asleep within doors, or abroad tending goats in the plains and on the hill-sides. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Branding in this way was used mostly by cattle raisers when large herds were grazed on the western plains. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Lieutenant General Sherman was to have been of the party also, but the Indian war compelled his presence on the plains. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Now they found a wall built against them, a firm government, and disciplined armies cutting them off from the grass plains. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Down pour the united nomads on the unwarlike, unarmed plains, and there ensues a war of conquest. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This well, so simple, so cheap and effective, has been used in all countries by thousands of farmers on dry plains and by soldiers in many desert lands. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• 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.
• The mountains would become covered with snow and ice, and their former Alpine inhabitants would descend to the plains. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The description of Palladius is as follows: In the plains of Gaul, they use this quick way of reaping, and without reapers cut large fields with an ox in one day. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• I shall gather manna for her morning and night: the plains and hillsides in the moon are bleached with manna, Adele. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• During the first century there was an air of quiescence over the great plains, but population was accumulating and the tribes were fermenting. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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