The mesa is a geological structure commonly seen in the deserts of the western United States. From LearnThat.org.
The tribe was relatively safe on the mesa but they had to descend into the valley for water. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Maybe it is because they learned it at home. brian in mesa. From Wordnik.com. [Pawlently takes aim at Obama's address to students] Reference
The good thing is Americans know and don't forget. brian in mesa. From Wordnik.com. [Wilson calls White House to apologize] Reference
Anyone who abuses his wife and child is my kind of real man. brian in mesa. From Wordnik.com. [Senator to actor: 'Make my day'] Reference
Far out on the mesa was the figure of a man, on foot. From Wordnik.com. [Sundown Slim] Reference
I came to the edge of a tall, flat piece of land called a mesa in Spanish. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy Loco Love] Reference
Amid the boulders at the edge of the mesa was the mouth of a tunnel, leading down at a sharp angle. From Wordnik.com. [Escape From Roksamur]
To the Navajos who have dwelled for generations at its bottom, the mesa is the wounded center of their world. From Wordnik.com. [Yellow Dirt] Reference
This is sort of like a mesa, that is, a large formation that is formed by erosion, a steep sided hill in simple terms. From Wordnik.com. [worlds in a grain of sand] Reference
Someone ahead of her had - At the edge of the mesa was a decline, steeper than the ascent but with better hand and foot holds. From Wordnik.com. [Achille's Choice]
Amen. brian in mesa. From Wordnik.com. [Bishops slam 'unacceptable' health care bill] Reference
October 15, 2008 warm in mesa - opps. From Wordnik.com. [software] Reference
You tell them Hillary!! brian in mesa. From Wordnik.com. [Clinton: Vetting process for administration jobs 'a nightmare'] Reference
You likely will pay more to eat while sitting at a "mesa" (table) and still more for a. From Wordnik.com. [chicagotribune.com -] Reference
The butte around which they were travelling was nothing more than an outlying "mesa" of this singular formation of the prairies. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
These knolls are about 40 yards apart, and about 40 feet above the level of the mesa which is something over 400 feet above Sikyátki. From Wordnik.com. [Eighth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1886-1887, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
The apron of the mesa is overgrown with fine pines. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
We cross the mesa which forms part of the Funeral Range. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Look out and each mesa is an acropolis, each canyon a cathedral. From Wordnik.com. [The Custer Syndrome] Reference
Alan hastened to the end of the fissure, near the side of the mesa. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
This was a precaution against accidental revelation of the treasure mesa. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
What it does look like is a mesa with an asymmetrical top and a stick-straight edge. From Wordnik.com. [A Mars Makeover] Reference
On this mesa was a ruined dwelling of two stories and some shattered farm buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Between it and the northern limits of the mesa lies, far off yet, the city of Santa Fé. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Introduction to Studies Among the Sedentary Indians of New Mexico; Report on the Ruins of the Pueblo of Pecos Papers Of The Archæological Institute Of America, American Series, Vol. I] Reference
It was dark, with sides as abrupt as the cliffs of the mesa, and too wide to jump across. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
It ended abruptly in the face of the mesa cliff, one hundred feet above the valley below. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
The bird had risen and poised above the mesa, then with fluttering wings darted downward. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
The boys agreed to take at noon the next day the exact latitude and longitude of the mesa. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
The possibility of a climb to that entrance to reach the mesa above was out of the question. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
The northern end of the mesa, Ned could see, widened and ended in a sharp rise almost wall-like in form. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Major Honeywell that it would not occupy a prominent place such as an exposed plateau or a high level mesa. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
While Alan made haste to prepare breakfast, Ned determined first on an examination of the mesa point by daylight. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Between this comer of the mesa and the sharper promontory whereon the Cibola had come to anchor, was a wide, sandy, barren depression. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
For the adventurous, there's Angel Falls or the mesa mountain of Roraima (where Arthur Conan Doyle's dinosaurs walked in his 'Lost World'). From Wordnik.com. [Love In The Time Of Counterrevolution] Reference
They would fortify themselves with a good breakfast, look over the mesa, make one more circling flight and then attempt to find Camp Eagle. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
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