The theatre of war presented nowhere any of those wide and level plains so common in Europe, and on which cavalry masses are able to produce such decisive effects in battle.
It is curious enough to pick up in a railway carriage, traversing such a scene of comparative wildness and vast uninhabited plains in Western Kansas, an exceedingly interesting examination of the Helmholtz theories of sight.
At that time the plains of the Crimea also were reckoned as part of the corn land of Scythia; they must therefore have been protected by forests against the storms of the north.
Cossacks on the west of the Don, and the steppe, and further to the west the plains of Moldavia, as far as the Carpathian range.
As already remarked, they trod the plains of Media in 835 B.
Humbanigas, the king of Elam, who, as the Fasti say, was defeated "in the plains of Kalu.
The wilderness is theirs with all its caves, Its hollow glens, its thickets, and its plains Unvisited by man.
Gardens, fields, and plains Were covered with the pest.
On the plainsof Asia lived the Chaldeans, whose civilization was about as old as that of the Egyptians.
Saltpetre comes, for the most part, from China and India, on whose vast plains it is found mixed with the soil.
He did not foresee how strongly a fine copper wire could bind together the two seaboards and the great plains of the interior.
Wolfe gave up his life on the plainsof Quebec just as the first shouts of the routed French greeted his ears.
These plains were quite smooth, and very pleasant to ride on; but so swiftly did his bicycle carry him that he soon crossed the plains and came on a river of pure maple syrup, so wide and deep that he could neither leap nor swim it.
There were black and gloomy forests, bright and cheerful meadows; bounding waterfalls and tranquil lakes; fertile lands and savage wastes; sunny plains and frigid plateaux.
Monte Viso rose up grandly, but it was less than forty miles away, and we looked over it to a hazy mass we knew must be the plains of Piedmont.
In others the very antipodes may be found; the temperature more like that of the plains of Italy than of Alpine France.
Over miles of level lava flow, along the upper Deschutes, this species forms a great forest bounded on the east by rolling sage-brush plains that stretch southward to the Nevada deserts.
In 1875, according to official statistics (see table appended to Dodge's Plains of the Great West, pp.
The region of the Moqui-Zuñi culture is a region in which aridplains become richly fertile when water from neighbouring cliffs or peaks is directed down upon them.
Inspired with the sudden zeal for conquest which has always characterized new converts to Islam, the Turks began to pour down from the plains of central Asia like a deluge upon the Eastern Empire.
Very little better are the Shoshones and Bannocks that still wander among the lonely bare mountains and over the weird sage-brush plains of Idaho.
Mountains and plains of sand, only, were presented to our view, looking "like drifted gold in summer's cloudless beam.
He despises English, but in that marvellous Volapuek of the plains called the sign language he told us that his teeth were gone, his hearing was bad, his eyes were weak, and his flesh was spare.
And in each of these roles he played the highest part among the Indians of Canada from the moment that the whites and the red men contested the dominion of the plains until he died, a short time ago.
The Northern supplies now go by rail from Calgary, in Alberta, over the plains by the new Edmonton railroad.
They dwell upon a reserve of nearly five hundred square miles of plains land, watered by the beautiful Bow River, and almost within sight of the Rocky Mountains.
When the company ruled the territory as its landlord, the defended posts were on the plains among the bad Indians, and on the Hudson Bay shore, where vessels of foreign nations might be expected.
All over the prairie and plains great stores of pemmican were kept, and men grew to like it very much, though it was nothing but dried buffalo beef pounded and mixed with melted fat.
They were not to be compared with the plains Indians as warriors or as men, but they were more treacherous, and wanting in high qualities.
She was at home in a little camp on the plains one day, and had wandered away from the tents, when she was kidnapped.
This I have seen night after night on the lakes and the plains and on the mountains.
Here the plains reach away in an almost level, unbroken, brown ocean of grass.
Miners are crushing the foot-hills on either side of the Rocky Mountains, farmers and cattle-men have advanced far northward on the prairie and on the plains in narrow lines, and railroads are pushing hither and thither.
Why should a vague terror hang over these low plains covered with water?
Afar--a very long way off, beyond the plains and villages--one could see the somber green of the forests.
As time went on, the climate of the plains got too hot to hold them.
Careful study of a good map will show how this has happened, especially if it has the plains and mountains distinctively tinted after the excellent German fashion.
It is the quantity of mud thus produced, and borne down by mountain torrents, that makes the alluvialplains collect so quickly at their base.
And, indeed, the Lombard plain is but an insignificant mud flat compared with the vast alluvial plainsof Asiatic and American rivers.
In the valleys and plains the bee competes at an advantage with the butterflies for all the sweets of life: but in this broad sub-glacial belt on the mountain-sides the butterflies in turn have things all their own way.
So the river was pushed southward by the Alpine deposits of the northern streams, leaving the great plains of Cisalpine Gaul spread away to the north of it.
For example, I was pleased to note near the summit of Mount Washington (the highest peak in New Hampshire) that a large number of the flowers belonged to species well known on the open plains of Lapland and Finland.
Its native and introduced range includes the fertile lands of the plains of practically the entire southeastern quarter of the country.
A greater proportion of sand should also be added to the compost, which will be the means of bringing them into a fruiting state at a proper season.
Finally, the little snow plains in the street began to assume a leaden hue from the shadows of evening.
In the silence of these plains the sudden and childish banging of a tin pan could have made an iron-nerved man leap into the air.
We wound out of the place by a sharp narrow pass, and there, within a mile of this old and deserted fortress, lay the broad plains of Beaune and Chagny--one of the most fertile and luxurious parts of France.
He has been now for a year at Vienna, where he spends the revenue of these rich plains most lavishly.
The son now dwells in fair Edina's town, And on our sandy plains pursues renown.
Ye rural powers that on these plains preside, Ye nymphs that dance on Fortha's flow'ry side, Assist the Muse that in your fields delights, And guide her course in these uncommon flights.
From silver Ierna's banks Castalio came, But first on Andrean plains he courted fame.
But when they were soaring northward down the river, and came to where the valley broadened out into the plains of Turkestan, Mr. Appleton forgot altogether about his time limit.
But there's such a lot of them, all mounted, too, that there's just a chance they may sweep across the southern plains as their forefathers did.
After landing, Wolfe climbed up the steep path, and had his army all drawn up for battle on the Plains of Abraham the next morning.
This memorable battle, fought in 1759, is commemorated by a monument on the Plains of Abraham, on which the names of both generals are carved.
He said he could recommend two young men who were relatives of their host, who would accompany them next day through the valley into the Apulian plains as far as Pozzo d'Alberto; thence it was only ten miles to their destination.
It was not long ere they reached the main road, and then, waving her hand, she set off at a breathless speed and soon reached the grassy plains of the open country.
Far as the eye can reach stretch the mighty wastes of waving grass--the undulating plains of ravishing verdure.
The prairie had become part of his very existence, and he loved to contemplate the varying lights and colors which moved athwart the fresh spring-clad plains as the sun rose above the eastern horizon.
The four grand provinces of Erin moved out on the morrow, and began to harry the plains of Breg and Murthemne.
He pointed him out the plains and the dûns and the strongholds of the province.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
