The five members of a sheep herding family lead a life far removed from modern civilization in the endless expanse of the Mongolian steppe. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
It is a great chalky plateau, and might almost be called a steppe or prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture] Reference
The steppe was a vast plain that shone with ponds and corkscrew rivers and evoked a wistful sadness. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
The climate is considered "steppe", being similar to tropical savanah. From Wordnik.com. [Still researching some towns] Reference
The potential natural vegetation is mostly sagebrush steppe which is distinct from that of the surrounding ecoregions. From Wordnik.com. [Ecoregions of Montana (EPA)] Reference
Would you have thought that the man who led you to a shelter on the steppe was the great Czar himself? ". From Wordnik.com. [Marie; a story of Russian love] Reference
Well, would you ever have thought, sir, that the man who guided you to a lodging in the steppe was the great Tzar himself? ". From Wordnik.com. [The Daughter of the Commandant] Reference
They were called steppe peasants. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
Moldova rolling steppe, gradual slope south to Black Sea. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Terrain: rolling steppe, gradual slope south to Black Sea. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Moldova: rolling steppe, gradual slope south to Black Sea. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Who redie at the vpper steppe, seemed as though she attended for him. From Wordnik.com. [The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1] Reference
The Mongols eventually retired to their original steppe homelands and later came under. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
A German infantry motorized division based on the town controls the mighty waste of steppe. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
Here a question arises as to whether hops from a warm or even a steppe climate, like that of. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 303, October 22, 1881] Reference
Baibars al-Bunduqdari rode a fawn-colored half-blood mare, part Arabian and part steppe pony. From Wordnik.com. [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference
The prairies are superseded by wheat-fields, and flocks of sheep destroy the true steppe-grass. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
Act -- the zone without black soil; the zone with black soil; and, third, the great steppe zone. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
There were ten of them riding on small, wiry steppe ponies -- men and women both, and well armed. From Wordnik.com. [The Defiant Agents] Reference
For they multiply like lice, and are as poisonous as the snakes that crawl in the steppe of Muhan. From Wordnik.com. [Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia] Reference
This is not merely a war of men against men -- it is a strife between the mountain and the steppe. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 9, August 26, 1850] Reference
The front of Stalingrad runs along a plateau of lakes from north to south and then joins the steppe. From Wordnik.com. [Stuka Pilot]
The Mongols eventually retired to their original steppe homelands and later came under Chinese rule. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
During the next year Talbott's faith in the shining nation on the steppe will be tested as never before. From Wordnik.com. [An Ice Cold Shower For A 'Culture Man'] Reference
Her hair smelled like remembered steppe grass warmed by an orange sun, rippling under the rings of Altai. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Next morning, between dark and dawn, the old woman took her distaff and drove the ox into the steppe to graze. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference
Unlike mammoths, and steppe horses, which were not exceptionally large for their species, the bison were giants. From Wordnik.com. [The Plains of Passage]
Terrain: vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Mongolia vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central. From Wordnik.com. [The 2004 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Mongolia: vast semidesert and desert plains, grassy steppe, mountains in west and southwest; Gobi Desert in south-central. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Bagdad northward the region between the two rivers is an arid, waterless, limestone steppe, inhabited only by roving Arabs. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
It also has considerable agricultural potential with its vast steppe lands accommodating both livestock and grain production. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Terrain: rolling steppe, gradual slope south to Black Sea lowest point: Nistru River 2 m highest point: Mount Balaneshty 430 m. From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
The steppe eagle was shot in a wing by an Afghan soldier at Camp Scorpion, a training base in the southern part of the country. From Wordnik.com. ['Mitch The Eagle' Rescued: Navy SEALs Save Eagle Shot In Afghanistan] Reference
Solzhenitsyn called it the Gulag Archipelago — like islands in a sea of frozen steppe, the Gulags were a state within the state. From Wordnik.com. [Solzhenitsyn: My Murdered Grandfather’s Voice] Reference
This quarter of the Ukraine was steppe, flatland edged by trees, and the moon was bright enough to show pines on either side of the road. From Wordnik.com. [Wolves Eat Dogs]
She had never heard of Crampton Place, and was happy enough not to be going there now — it struck her as desolate as a Siberian steppe. From Wordnik.com. [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]
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