The trees are of mesozoic time, though mostly washed down to the foot of the mesas in which they were once embedded, and lying now amid deposits of a later age.
There are fine indigenous grasses that spring up over the mesas after the summer rains, furnishing range for live-stock; some are extraordinarily independent of the rainfall.
One day Mí-tsi went up on the mesas to cut corral posts.
In the sierra a piece of land may yield good crops for three years in succession without manure, but in the broad mountain valleys and on the mesas a family can use the same field year after year for twenty or thirty seasons.
On the dry mesas it seems to go mostly to root that is out of all proportion to the size of the tree.
Perched upon their high mesas the people have been safe from every attack of an enemy, but their fields and flocks in the valley below were defenseless.
The mesas are about seven thousand feet above sea level and from six to eight hundred feet higher than the surrounding plain.
The paths on the mesas have been cut deep into the hard rock, which were worn by the soft tread of moccasined feet during centuries of travel, numbering, perhaps, several times the four hundred years that are known to history.
For no other reason, apparently, do the Moquis live upon their rocky and barren mesas away from everything which the civilized white man deems desirable, yet, in seeming contentment.
As found growing on the dry mesas of Arizona, it is only a small bush, but on the moist land of a river bottom it becomes a large forest tree.
They cling with stubborn tenacity to their barren mesas and nothing thus far has succeeded in driving them away; neither war, pestilence nor famine.
The mesas are all rock and utterly barren, and their supplies are all brought from a distance over difficult trails.
The top of the several mesas can only be reached by ascending steep and difficult trails which are hard to climb but easy to defend.
The Moquis live in seven towns or pueblos which are built upon three rocky mesas that are many miles apart.
Many mesas on their tops, you know, on which the ancient Indian peoples used to till their gardens.
The level rays of the sun shot far, far across the plains and gilded the line of buttes and mesas Rhoda had told them so much about while back at Lakeview Hall.
Younger men went far to the west where the people of the Hopi mesashad loved him;--somewhere in the world he must be found!
They smiled at her as she passed, but with the smile was a deference they did not show the ordinary neighbor of the mesas in Hopi land.
But all those wonderful Hopi mesas with their fortresses on each, were within the running time of a morning, and not in any of them were there forests or living streams, or strange new things.
But the ice of that winter melted, and the summer bore its fruit, and the second spring time had come to the land before Tahn-té crossed the mesas and stood at his mother's door.
Large, unexcavated ruins, magnificent canyons and mesasoff the beaten path unfold the charm of this primitive region.
Surface ruins of a different type are widely distributed over the narrow mesas separating the numerous canyons.
Out on the starlit mesas he had metaphorically shed his coat.
See them there mesas dancin' in the sun, and the grass wavin' and me cows grazing and 'way off like in a dream them blue hills!
The wide mesas glowing in the sun, the sense of illimitable freedom, the keen, odorless air wrought him to a pitch of inspiration.
He will smile and point toward the mesas and the mountains of his home.
Ask him the trail to that other place with which he so frequently garnishes his conversation, and he will gravely point to the mesas and the hills again.
John Corliss gazed at his brother, thinking of the bright-faced, blue-eyed lad that had ridden the mesas and the hills with him.
Arizona Across the wide, sun-swept mesas the steel trail of the railroad runs east and west, diminishing at either end to a shimmering blur of silver.
If the tramp had courage enough to walk another thirty miles across the mesas to get a job cooking, there must be something to him besides legs.
In a flash the wide mesas were tinged with gold as the smouldering red sun rose, to march unclouded to the western sea.
If the mesas is goin' dry on the east side, what's he goin' to do?
Out on the mesas it would be different--and it was.
For a time the wide, free glory of the Arizona morning mesas was forgotten.
Slone worked out of the cedars to what appeared a grassy plateau inclosed by the great green-and-white slope with its yellow wall over hanging, and distant mesas and cliffs.
The plateau was miles wide, shut in by great walls and mesas of colored rock.
The aridity and excessive heat of the mesas do not depend solely on the nature of their surface and the local reverberation of the soil; their climate is modified by the adjacent regions; by the whole of the Llano of which they form a part.
The partition ridge of this basin is formed by small table-lands, known by the names of Mesas de Amana, Guanipa and Jonoro.
In the Llanos of South America little elevations rising slightly above the general elevation of the plain are called bancos and mesas from their supposed resemblance to benches and tables.
Out West, the west of the mesas and the unpatented hills, there is more sky than any place in the world.
Here are the long heavy winds and breathless calms on the tilted mesas where dust devils dance, whirling up into a wide, pale sky.
Eastward the land goes very far by broken ranges, narrow valleys of pure desertness, and huge mesas uplifted to the sky-line, east and east, and no man knows the end of it.
But in general the steep plunges, the white swirls, green and tawny pools, the gliding hush of waters between the meadows and the mesas afford little fishing and few flowers.
But up on the higher mesas there is a heady quality to the wind that blows fresh in your face.
Within a distance of fifteen miles there are some sixteen or eighteen of these promontories and isolated mesas of different height, every one of them covered with ruins of old and massive stone-built structures.
He was much pleased with the manner in which they had terraced off the bluff of the mesas into little garden patches, irrigating them from the large reservoirs from the top.
Loew: "If you wish to see what a great people we once were you must go upon the mesas and into the canyons of the vicinity, where ruins of our forefathers are numerous.
Another is located at the very beginning of the canyon, and two more on the edge of the mesas just outside of the canyon.
Valley of the Guadalupe River in the neighborhood of New Braunfels, Comal County, Texas, to the Sierra Madre of Nuevo Leon; most abundant and of its largest size south of the Rio Grande on dry gravellymesas and foothills.
Widely scattered over the mesas of southern Arizona south of the Colorado plateau and of the adjacent regions of Sonora.
Plains of Arizona south of the Colorado plateau, and in the adjacent region of Sonora; not rare; apparently most abundant and of its largest size in the United States on the mesas near Tucson, Pima County, at altitudes between 2000 deg.
Often forming thickets of considerable extent and abundant near Rio Grande, Starr County, Texas; mesas south of the lower Rio Grande; of its largest size and tree-like in habit on the limestone ridges of the Sierra Madre of Nuevo Leon.
Dry gravelly mesas on the Arizona foothills, from the White Mountain region to the valley of Bill Williams's Fork in the northwestern part of the state, and on Providence Mountain in southern California.
Here it winds its sinuous course, through a broad valley of volcanic mesas and mountains, and has no bottoms worth mentioning, except those occupied of old by the Mojave Indians.
Early potatoes are grown in regions of light frosts in all parts of the State - around the bay of San Francisco, on the mesas in southern California, and to some extent at slight elevations in the central part of the State.
Convinced that to sink other wells on the mesas would be fruitless, the foreman decided to dig a number of shallow ones in the bed of the river, in the hope of catching seepage water.
Under the climatic change, from the swamps of Louisiana to the mesas of Texas, the girls grew up fine physical specimens of rustic Southern beauty.
We had a string of camps along the river, and at every windmill on the mesas men were stationed night and day.
That portion of the southwestern plateau country comprised in the Province of Tusayan has usually been approached from the east, so that the easternmost of the series of mesas upon which the villages are situated is called the “First Mesa.
They still identify these with ruins on the detached mesas in the valley to the south and along the Moen-kopi (“place of flowing water”) and other intermittent streams in the west.
The Cibolan pueblos are built on the foothills of mesas or in open valley sites, surrounded by broad fields, while the Tusayan villages are perched upon mesa promontories that overlook the valley lands used for cultivation.
These beds of bloom are not seen in the immediate vicinity of the present villages, but are unexpectedly met with in portions of the neighboring mesas and canyons.
As it enters a branch canyon on the west side of the wash it is flanked on each side by rocky mesas and broken ledges.
Some of the Cibolan villages were valley pueblos, built at a distance from the rocky mesas and canyons that must have served as quarries for the stone used in building.
This similarity of effect is often accidental, and due to the fact that the materials of the houses and of the mesas on which they are built are identical.
Though the surroundings of the Cibolan pueblos and ruins exhibit the ordinary characteristics of plateau scenery, they have not the monotonous and forbidding aspect that characterizes the mesas and valleys of Tusayan.
The village overlooked a large area of low bottom land in the angle between the Verde and the East Verde, and is itself overlooked by the foothills rising behind it to the high mesas forming part of the Mazatzal mountains.
It will be noticed that here again the cavate lodges and village ruins are associated, although in this case the village ruins on the mesas above are said to be more ancient than the cavate lodges.
It is a land of rich pastures and teeming flocks and herds, a land of rolling mesas and precious running waters that at length unite in the Currumpaw River, from which the whole region is named.
For the bright snowless winter of the mesas was gone and the springtime was at hand.
Afar on the great rolling mesas they were fixed, his passing kingdom, where his famous band was now scattered.
It is a common fact that on many of these high buttes and mesas the pitiless weather of ages has chiseled figures, faces, and forms which, in their monstrous grotesquery, suggest the discarded clay modelings of a half-witted giant.
The disgruntled cattle-owners, under a guard of ten men, were resting quietly far from anything resembling excitement in one of the untracked places among the mesas and scoria buttes.
They trotted their horses across the Mesas in silence towards the glaring white canvas wagon.
Mr. MacDonald and Mr. Williams want to transfer from this Divide to the Mesas above the Rim Rocks," continued Wayland.
They picked up a trail that led over rocky mesas and dipped suddenly into the deep dug-way of a dry gravel bed.
It was seven weeks since they had set out from the Upper Mesas of the Rim Rocks, four weeks since they had left the saline pool.
The Ranger touched his horse to a gallop and jumped all three animals through the criss-cross of wind-fall and slash, coming out on the edge of the rock chasm that cut the Upper Mesas off from the Holy Cross.
A moment later, he was galloping through the larches and low juniper that fringed the Mesas above the Rim Rock trail, the mule huff-huffing to the fore snatching mouthfuls on the run.
The antelope bands that once flashed their white rumps from bench to bench of the tawny mesas were reduced, the last time I saw them, to a scant half-score roving the Tejon under the watchful eye of the superintendent.
Still lower and to the westward are flat mesas composed of horizontal layers of black basalt under a rich carpeting of the brightest verdure.
Along its front, detached outliers usually stand like sentinels before the larger mass, and according to their relative proportions, these are referred to either as small mesas or as the smaller buttes (Fig.
Diagram to show the manner of formation of mesasor table mountains by the outflow of lava in valleys and the subsequent more rapid erosion of the intervening ridges.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mesas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
