The cowboys rode to the top of the butte to look across the prairie. From LearnThat.org.
The level below the butte was a-buzz with life and energy. From Wordnik.com. ['Firebrand' Trevison] Reference
Above the butte is another deep canon, through which the river has cleft its way. From Wordnik.com. [The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness] Reference
Beyond the summit of the butte was a greenish-brown plateau of sagebrush and bunch-grass. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
The butte was a strong point that the Council of Masters would very much like to take back. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
The "butte" was one of those singular formations to be met with in the. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Hunters] Reference
Shasta is called a butte. From Wordnik.com. [Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands] Reference
Magnus woulde speke, butte thatte hys noble spryte. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
I want your company at the foot of that butte ASAP. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
Hane Englonde thenne a tongue, butte notte a stynge?. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
Downe to hym camme shee; butte thereof the reste 1180. From Wordnik.com. [The Rowley Poems] Reference
We were away out on the desert not far from North Pilot butte. From Wordnik.com. [Letters on an Elk Hunt] Reference
Silva felt his HEV stabilize and took another look at the butte. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
Found about 150 elk on the unnamed butte north of Bear Mountain. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Soon squads of attackers were regrouping atop the jungle-clad butte. From Wordnik.com. [The False Mirror]
Mayd by my father for my sonne on his XI birthedy and never worne butte ync. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Dolphin]
Further south, we found our way lighted by a star high up on a rocky butte. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
They've got plans for lots of gas wells just off to the right of the butte. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
On reaching the foot of the butte, the young people drew rein and dismounted. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
Just before reaching the head of the cañon, the road wound round a high butte. From Wordnik.com. [The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier] Reference
Far to the South, a lone butte lifted its corrugated front in forbidding majesty. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Gold] Reference
A large butte, perhaps 700 feet high, stood out by itself, a mile from the main cliffs. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Grand Canyon from Wyoming to Mexico] Reference
Though this butte was so high the average of the walls was only about five hundred feet. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
Cap. had underestimated the distance to the butte, which was twice as far as he thought. From Wordnik.com. [A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872] Reference
By the time we passed the red butte the second time ... we had six barrels in the truck. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
He had not seen the red car for several minutes, it having disappeared behind a rocky butte. From Wordnik.com. [Ted Strong's Motor Car] Reference
Now that the Marines had taken the butte and fortified it, they had to hold onto the high keep. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
The house seems to grow out of the mountain, as natural as a butte, all sandstone and limestone. From Wordnik.com. [Rich Cohen on Jerry Weintraub] Reference
They were working their way to the edge of a butte that dropped abruptly into a dried up riverbed. From Wordnik.com. [Something Wild]
The ranch includes a butte with a 1,200-foot vertical drop not too far from a large transmission line. From Wordnik.com. [Big Sky Electricity] Reference
But those assets would come, oh, yes they would, shortly after the butte was wrenched from enemy hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
Make a sauce of this of this with butte and flour, season with pepper and salt, and pour it over the fish. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference
It was the Helljumpers who took this butte, son — not a bunch of augmented freaks dressed in fancy armor. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
The Grasslands plan: build a pair of lakes, one on the butte and one below, each holding 1.5 billion gallons. From Wordnik.com. [Big Sky Electricity] Reference
What you and your ‘honest-to-god’ Marines have accomplished on this butte is nothing short of miraculous. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
The snow-covered butte by Sweetwater Station is also outside my country, but I drive by several times a year. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Nineteen bulls and spikes bedded high on the butte, and 130 cows and calves on the protected, sunny east slope. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
"Spider" and "The one who bends the wood" and the other leaders under arrest and out of camp to a butte near by. From Wordnik.com. [Policing the Plains Being the Real-Life Record of the Famous North-West Mounted Police] Reference
This is why we need the butte, Silva thought as he surveyed the carnage, to avoid another victory like this one. From Wordnik.com. [The Flood]
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