Most people who hear the word puszta think straight away of herds of galloping horses pounding across the landscape in Hungary. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference
All the spirit of the daughters of the puszta, the violent pride of her. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The puszta with its oceanic grasses and shimmering reeds at the center of the great Hungarian plain is an inland dry Wash. From Wordnik.com. [A Year on the Wing] Reference
The rallying cry of the wandering musicians of the puszta had some element in it like the cherished tones of the distant bells of his fatherland. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The major manifestations are the veldts of South Africa, the puszta of Hungary, the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the steppes of the former Soviet Union, and the plains and prairies of central North America. From Wordnik.com. [Grassland biome] Reference
The only touristything we did was to visit the ranch even deeper into the middle of the puszta (plain) where frankly bonkers young men rode five horses at a time round in circles at high speed (see picture above). From Wordnik.com. [Acting funny in the middle of nowhere … « Ken Wilson's Blog] Reference
All I know is how my heart soared out on the Hungarian puszta when I saw my first Great Bustard and how privileged I feel whenever I see a piping plover on the beach at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge during a Saturday plover warden shift. From Wordnik.com. [rarity] Reference
The soul of the dead seemed to speak in the voice of the heroic music, recalling to the harassed contestants for liberty the great days of the revolts of the fatherland, the old memories of the struggles against the Turks, the furious charges of the cavaliers across the free puszta, the vast Hungarian plain. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
As Marsa watched them, she seemed to perceive in these wanderers of the river, as in a vision, those other wanderers of the Hungarian desert, her ancestors, the Tzigani, camped in the puszta, the boundless plain, crouched down in the long grass beneath the shade of the bushes, and playing their beautiful national airs. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Tchereteff's soldiers; and there, in Hungarian soil, close to the spot where the men of her tribe had been shot down, she buried the Tzigana, whose daughter she so thoroughly felt herself to be, that, in breathing the air of the puszta, she seemed to find again in that beloved land something already seen, like a vivid memory of a previous existence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
From Bugac we were planning on exploring the puszta a little. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Szeged at about 11.15 after an interesting journey from Bugac in the puszta. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
Unfortunately our somewhat optimistic plan of organising a horse trek for one or two days through the puszta with a bored local cowboy guide (as it was still low season) didn't quite work out. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
The idea of coming to Kecskemet, lying in the Hungarian Great Plains, was to head on from here for the puszta (the uplands plain of Hungary), in order to get an idea about landscape and way of life in this part of Hungary. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
He was dead before I was born, but I found his book, when I was a child, in the solitary home of my father, which stood on the confines of a puszta, or wilderness, and that book I used to devour in winter nights when the winds were whistling around the house. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
A female phantom, who is described as hurrying along the puszta, or steppe, in a mortar, pounding with a pestle at a tremendous rate, and leaving a long trace on the ground behind her with her tongue, which is three yards long, and with which she seizes any men and horses coming in her way, swallowing them down into her capacious belly. From Wordnik.com. [The Romany Rye] Reference
Luckily after our first walk round in a circle through the puszta we met two boys in a horse drawn cart, who told us that the direction we'd been headed in initially was right, and that we would have just to continue for a little longer, ca. 2 km, to arrive at a restaurant from where it was another 2 km to the actual place where the show takes place. From Wordnik.com. [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference
One of theBugac horse riders out on the puszta …. From Wordnik.com. [Acting funny in the middle of nowhere … « Ken Wilson's Blog] Reference
Her beauty, faded by long, slow sorrow, Tisza found again in her child, a true daughter of Hungary like herself; and, as Marsa grew up, she told her the legends, the songs, the heroism, the martyrdom, of Hungary, picturing to the little girl the great, grassy plain, the free puszta, peopled with a race in whose proud language the word honor recurs again and again. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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