There is the picturesque contrast between the vast dull corn-flats to the north of the great river and the vines and acacias to the south.
A whole world seems to part those drearyflats broken with lifeless inlets, those patches of sodden fields flung shapelessly among sheets of sullen water, from the life and joy of the Grand Canal.
In this place, where the naked flats of rock showed the projection of the ledge through which the river had cut its course, the torrent rushed down a deep, sheer-sided, and extremely narrow channel.
Day after day we rode forward across endless flats of grass and of low open scrubby forest, the trees standing far apart and in most places being but little higher than the head of a horseman.
The ugly brutes lay on the sand-flats and mud-banks like logs, always with the head raised, sometimes with the jaws open.
At the point where the descent was steepest there were great naked flats of friable sandstone and conglomerate.
Over the sandstone flats there were some ugly ledges, but on the whole the course was down-hill and relatively easy.
Those people are certainly not sharps--they are undoubtedly flats of the first water.
On the other hand, the flats will find much food for thought in these pages.
Well, they must have been flats if their equilibrium remained undisturbed through a lively game such as that.
In these cases, of course, both sharps andflats are drawn together by one common bond of union--that of defeating the aim of the law for the suppression of gaming-houses.
Reports that reached Collins showed that for eight hundred miles south along the base of the hills the coyotes were quitting the flats and roaming through the fastnesses of the Rockies.
Those sheepmen who summered their sheep in the high valleys of the western mountains complained that stray coyotes quit the flats and followed them into the hills to prey upon the flocks.
His prediction that coyotes would take to the hills and feel as much at home high above timberline as in the flats had come to pass.
Just at dusk Breed howled again and dropped down to the broken country at the base of the hills, skirting the flats and holding to the roughest brakes, then swung out across the rolling foothills.
That night when he raised his howl it reached the ears of perhaps a hundred coyotes far out across the flats and immediately thereafter there was a strange movement in the coyote tribe.
The powdery snow had been swept from the open before it had time to melt and the dry air of the hill country had sucked up what little moisture remained, leaving the flats almost as dusty as before.
The cry drifted faintly to theflats below and reached the ears of Cripp and Peg.
They found small game less abundant in the high hills than in the flats and they scoured the surrounding timber without success, returning at last to bed down near Breed on the open ridge.
Not far away and nearer Church Knowle is Creech Barrow, a cone-shaped hill commanding a most extensive and beautiful view, especially north-westwards over the heathyflats of the Frome valley to the distant Dorset-Somerset borderlands.
In consequence of the double tides with which Southampton is favoured, the chance of having a long stretch of ill looking and worse smelling mud flats in the foreground of the view is almost negligible.
She occupied the second floor of a large new house in the Boulevard Haussmann, the landlord of which let flats to single ladies in order by their means to dry the paint.
The banks of the river are lower and less rugged, and here commence the beautiful flats that reach to the shore of Ontario.
The rent for the front flats was twelve dollars; for that in the rear ten dollars.
The population of Green Dragon Yard was greater than the sight of it would lead you to expect, for in Whitechapel one-room flats were the rule; but with its utmost crowding it came nowhere near the court.
There were four--about half as many as there were in some of the other flats when the item of house rent was lessened for economic reasons; but it covered the ground: the flat was too small for the Gios.
Sullivan comes on to Genesee Flats and destroys the property of the Indians.
Near the upper end of these flats is the Great Slide.
Besides the buildings above mentioned, she owns a number of houses that are occupied by tenants, who work her flats upon shares.
The negroes continued on my flats two or three years after this, and then left them for a place that they expected would suit them much better.
From Mount Morris the banks of the Genesee are from two to four hundred feet in height, with narrow flats on one side of the river or the other, till you arrive at the tract called Gardow, or Cross Hills.
My flats were extremely fertile; but needed more labor than my daughters and myself were able to perform, to produce a sufficient quantity of grain and other necessary productions of the earth, for the consumption of our family.
In 1724 Hugh Jones wrote, "The tobacco is rolled, drawn by horses, or carted to convenient Rolling Houses, whence it is conveyed on board the ships in flats or sloops.
When the ships could not get directly up to the wharf or enter shallow creeks on which many of the plantations were located, small boats called flats or shallops were used to transport the hogsheads to the anchored vessels.
Dolls' Flats Just as people live not only in houses but in flats, so may there be dolls' flats as well as dolls' houses.
When they started, the sun was glaring ferociously from a pale blue sky and the dust of the flats rose like fine powder under their horses' feet.
In a front scene the flatsimmediately behind the actors serve as a sounding board for the voice, and reduce the volume of space to be filled by the speakers.
At last all the characters are off, the flats are drawn aside, and the celebrated Irish wake makes its appearance, taking the whole depth of the stage.
The scene ends in suspense, the actors having gone for Claude Melnotte, and the flats draw aside, revealing Melnotte's cottage and introducing the hero.
The flats had long since been cast aside, and the pans had become less necessary with the dwindling of the currant-bushes; but the jelly-making returned with every recurring July.
Isn't that better than a course offlats up one street and down another?
Among the pines where the slope of the land allows it, the streams run into smooth, brown, trout-abounding rills across open flats that are in reality filled lake basins.
There is the palpable smell of the bitter dust that comes up from the alkali flats at the end of the dry seasons, and the smell of rain from the wide-mouthed cañons.
The winter of the Big Snow an epidemic of pneumonia carried off the Indians with scarcely a warning; from the lake northward to the lava flats they died in the sweat-houses, and under the hands of the medicine-men.
When Timmie O’Shea was lost on Armogossa Flats for three days without water, Long Tom Basset found him, not by any trail, but by making straight away for the points where he saw buzzards stooping.
One who ventures to look for it finds the immediate source of the spring freshets--all the hill fronts furrowed with the reek of melting drifts, all the gravelly flats in a swirl of waters.
Midway of the groove runs a burrowing, dull river, nearly a hundred miles from where it cuts the lava flats of the north to its widening in a thick, tideless pool of a lake.
Ogden and Bond, with their interesting conversation soon made me forget the discomforts of the last three days spent in the muddy flats among the lowland negroes.
The rivers and swamps near Broughton Island abound in fine fishes and terrapin, while the marshes and flats of the sea islands afford excellent opportunities for the sportsman to try his skill upon the feathered tribe.
New Cut" connects Church Flats with Wadmelaw Sound, a sheet of water not over two miles in width and the same distance in length.
The inside thoroughfare is bounded on the west by Rogue's Island, out of the flats of which rose a solitary house.
Freedmen, poling flats loaded with shingles or frame stuff, roared out their merry songs as they passed.
The ebb-tide had left but little water around the rough pier abreast of the town, and heaps of oyster-shells rose from the mudflats and threatened the safety of my canoe.
The intervening flats among the island marshes of New River were covered with natural beds of oysters, upon which the canoe scraped as I crossed to the narrow entrance of Stump Sound.
For this purpose he caused a number of flats or rafts to be constructed after the manner of the Peruvians, formerly mentioned, to transport his men and horses to the island, which is above twenty miles from the river of Tumbez.
They went to sea in a peculiar kind of flats or rafts, made of long planks of a light wood fixed to two other cross planks below them to hold them together.
Don't you know that these flats are precisely like a patty-pan, every room following after and joining on to the next one the way the cups do in those sheets?
I don't think flatsare really homes; you can't do that kind of comfy, homey things in a flat.
In town houses there is nothing but an upper floor, with one room kept for a storeroom; in Patty-Pans flats there isn't so much as that!
For thirty miles our way lay across the wide flats of the Tanana Valley, and this stage brought us to the banks of the Nenana River.
Here we were at the upper end of one of the flats of the glacier that fills the Grand Basin, the sérac of another great rise just above us.
The houses had been left behind and around them was a country of grey mud-flats with the river dragging its sluggish length through it like a great serpent.
The lit doorway of a high building of flats faced them.
I noticed above high-water mark extensive flats of almost barren land, composed of level patches of coral, the interstices of which were gradually getting filled up with coral detritus, and the decayed remains of stunted plants.
Probably, after the lapse of a few years, these flats will form part of the general forest land, when the crabs may undergo further adaptive changes.
Denver's heart leapt again as he raced his horse across the flats and led him scrambling with haste up the steep hills, and before the sun was three hours high he had plunged into the box canyon of Queen Creek.
The box canyon grew deeper, the walls more precipitous, the creek bottom more dark and cavernous; until at last it opened out into broad flats and boulder patches, thickly covered with alders and ash trees.
We soon reached low marshy land intersected with large dry mud flats and, as it was impossible, from the nature of the country, to get the pony further, I tethered it, and we tried to make the river on foot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flats" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
