The pools were well up on the desert, where pinnacles and buttes had given way at last to a roughly level country, with only occasional fissures as reminders of the canyon.
Still south of this, lifted great weathered buttes and mesas, fortifications of the gods against time itself.
In the gray light the strangely weathered mesas were ruined castles, stupendous in bulk; the mighty buttes and crumbled peaks were colossal cities overthrown by the cataclysm of time.
There was little or no view from the spring, for peaks and buttes closely hemmed it in.
It occupies a promontory above the same broad sandstone ledge that forms such a conspicuous feature in the vicinity of Mashongnavi and Shupaulovi, and which supports the buttes upon which these villages are built.
We left Traveling Buttes and its cruel little love-story, but we had not gone a mile when a horseman overtook us with a message for Ferris from his new foreman at the ranch, a summons which called him back for a day at the least.
A day's ride with the Buttes as a landmark is like a stern chase, in that you seem never to gain upon them.
From the towering black buttes that walled in Hell's Hip Pocket to the Rio Verde it was passable for a spring lamb, and though the thin grass stood up fresh and green on the mesas the river showed nothing but drought.
Long after the clatter of hoofs had ceased Lucy stood in the shade of the ramada, gazing pensively at the fire-blasted buttes and the tender blue mountains beyond.
In less than half an hour, another one bore down from the buttes and swept across with a terrible roar, about one mile below.
The only living thing in sight was a herd of antelope, crossing an opposite hill, and far to the southward he could see the mysterious buttes of the Bad Lands.
Ranges of buttes stretched away from the banks until they were lost in the distance and from every gully, purling streams flashed their clear waters into the yellow of the river.
If anything, the river was rougher and wilder than it had been the day before; running between high buttes which formed the upper edge of the Bad Lands.
Some of the buttes below Fort Sully are shaped wonderfully like pyramids; walls and cones loomed up against the sky and one could easily imagine himself on the Nile floating past the sphinxes and temples of Egypt.
There was not that startling grandeur which characterized the shores of some of the rivers; but it was beautiful--with high buttes and pleasant shores, while the people throughout its entire length are exceedingly hospitable.
The buttesstood out in huge silver masses, washed by the light of the moon.
The great barebuttes stood up redly in the sunset light.
There was hardly a hollow that did not harbour some crouching form; and the prairie buttes had eyes.
When the sun had lifted himself above the horizon, the travellers had already reached the last buttes of the Bad Lands, and saw the prairies stretching at their feet.
The road wound among shapeless buttes of red soil, the plain was clothed on its levels with a short, dry grass, and on the side of the buttes were scattering, scraggy cedars, looking at a distance like droves of cattle.
The farm lay on either side of a small stream which ran among the buttesand green mesas of the foothills.
He had urged his pony toward the two buttes that he had seen during the lightning flash, making a circuit in order to evade his enemies.
He swept a hand up the river, indicating the sentinel like buttes that frowned above the bed of the stream.
Thar's a squad of the boys from Red Buttes just arrived.
Guess it's just one of the boys from Red Buttes comin' along in advance to lend us a neighbourly hand.
The smallest of the three buttes of the Sweet Grass Hills is regarded as sacred.
An hour later they cleared the divide, dipped down past the Bald Buttes through a sharp elbow-canyon, and took the steep open slope that dropped into Porcupine Creek.
The long arctic twilight was on when he cleared the divide and left the Bald Buttes behind.
The skins of five adults collected in December at Trinchera are less richly colored on the sides than skins from Two Buttes and look more nearly like topotypes of N.
Each of four skulls from Regnier (three adults and one subadult) differs from skulls from Two Buttes in having a longer interparietal with a posterior angle.
The skull of this rat has narrower nasals than other adults from Two Buttes and a longer interparietal with a posterior median angle.
The skull of one of the five from Trinchera differs from skulls from Two Buttes in much narrower nasals anteriorly, narrower rostrum, much narrower upper incisors, and smaller zygomatic breadth, these characters being as in fallax.
Adults in dense unworn pelage taken in February at Two Buttes Reservoir: size large for the species; tail approximately 76 per cent as long as head and body; hind feet of medium length.
The characters of the new subspecies are most distinctive in the northeastern part of its range near Two Buttes and Higbee.
Then spake Wyllyam of Cloudesle; By him that for me dyed, I hold hym never no good archar, 195 That shoteth at buttes so wyde.
The kyng called hys best archars To thebuttes wyth hym to go: I wyll se these felowes shote, he sayd, In the north have wrought this wo.
And when they came to Notyngham, The buttes were fayre and longe.
Rifts were here like gulleys; little buttes reared their rounded, dome heads.
The crags and buttes and gullies of this tumbled area loomed barely visible about me.
Beaver, catching glimpses during the day of the tall Sentinel Buttes off to our right.
The village of Slim Buttes destroyed, General Crook pushed ahead on his southward march in search of the Black Hills and rations.
The sun goes down at Slim Buttes on hundreds of baffled and discomfited Sioux.
To the west the white crags and boulders of the buttes shut off the view--we are fighting along at their very base.
And those buttes over there used to be volcanoes, before they laid off the job.
Since I've been sitting here looking at the mesa and those wonderful buttes over there, and watching the natives come and go, I have begun to feel that I don't care so much about that train, after all.
How was it possible for one train to have seen the headlight of another among the buttes of the Peace River country?
Delaroo, fireman the 264, missing," wired Sugar Buttes to Medicine Bend a few minutes later.
Ed Peeto had pulled it badly demoralized out of a freight wreck at the Sugar Buttes and done it over in company screws and varnish to surprise Hailey.
At Sugar Buttes they held him thirty minutes for the Moulton Special to pass, and, to crown his indignities, kept him there fifteen minutes more waiting for an eastbound sheep train.
When we cleared Salt Rocks siding and got down among the Quakers, I was cutting along pretty hard to make the canon when I saw, or thought I saw, a headlight flash between the buttes across the river.
Yeh, I was tellin' yuh to stay clear of it 'cause it ain't nothin' but a lot of buttes with hard pan between them.
Our camp was on the windy desert, a long sweeping range of grass, sloping down, dotted with cattle, with buttes and mountains in the distance.
Twilight stole down on us idling there, silent, content to watch the red glow pass away from the buttes and peaks, the color deepening downward to meet the ebon shades of night creeping up like a dark tide.
Nothing is moving here but the snow and those two black buttesout there.
The big brown bat is a common inhabitant of the Slim Buttes and North Cave Hills, where individuals were shot or netted as they foraged over water or among trees late in the evening.
The least chipmunk is common in the buttes and associated badlands where it most frequently inhabits rocky areas.
Seven adults, all in winter pelage, were taken late in March from a pond near the west side of Slim Buttes (5 mi.
The species probably occurs throughout the rocky areas in the hills and buttes of Harding County, and also frequents abandoned or little-used buildings and feed stations for livestock.
The wooded buttes mentioned above are at least in part within the boundaries of Custer National Forest and support western yellow pine (Pinus ponderosa) and junipers (Juniperus sp.
We took specimens from several of the woodedbuttes and also in areas well-removed from timber; one was shot, for example, as it foraged over the Little Missouri River in the extreme western part of the county.
We noted porcupines almost nightly in June of 1961 along the road that parallels the Slim Buttes to the east, and found a number that had been struck by automobiles along this and other roadways in, or adjacent to, wooded areas.
No white-footed mice were found along the generally treeless tributaries of the Moreau and Grand rivers to the east of Slim Buttes nor were these mice found along the Little Missouri River or in likely-looking habitat in the North Cave Hills.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "buttes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
