Why when hare-like and rabbit-like animals were formed to live on the Savannahsof La Plata, were they produced on the peculiar Rodent type of S.
For days the tribe was kept on the stretch collecting dry and leafy brushwood from the other side of the valley, and bundles of dead grass from the rich savannahs beyond the valley-mouth, on the other side of the dancing flames.
A few representatives of their most colossal and highly-specialized forms still survived, still terrible and supreme in those vast, steaming, cane-clothed savannahs which most closely repeated the conditions of an earlier age.
These various phenomena, so common in the tropics, acquire additional interest from the form of the mountains, the direction of the slopes, and the height of the savannahs covered with alpine grasses.
How often have we heard our guides exclaim in the savannahsof Venezuela, or in the desert extending from Lima to Truxillo, "Midnight is past, the Cross begins to bend!
It was in the dry season, and to improve the pasturage, the savannahs and the turf covering the steepest rocks were set on fire.
This last phenomenon, so extraordinary in a country not volcanic, is pretty frequent in the Alpine calcareous mountains near Cumanacoa, in the valley of Bordones, in the island of Margareta, and amidst the Llanos or savannahs of New Andalusia.
The weather was becoming cloudy; the mist already issued in the form of smoke, and in slender and perpendicular streaks, from a small humid wood which bordered the region of alpine savannahs above us.
It was everywhere more violent in the Cordilleras of gneiss and mica-slate, or immediately at their base, than in the plains; and this difference was particularly striking in the savannahs of Varinas and Casanara.
It does not appear to be the same as the hind of the savannahs of Cayenne, or the guazuti of Paraguay, which live also in herds.
There are indeed posts established, but they make such great circuits that private persons seldom entrust them with letters for the llanos or savannahs of the interior.
Transported into America after the discovery of that continent, the common variety is now perfectly acclimated there, and is even to be found wild in some of the vast forests and savannahs of that country.
They inhabit the countries of Equatorial America, and live in troops of from thirty to forty in the midst of savannahs and marshes.
This bird inhabits the savannahs of Central America, and occasionally the southern portion of the United States, frequenting the banks of rivers, where it feeds on fish, mollusks, and sometimes crabs.
It was pretty high, woody, and mixed with savannahs like those formerly mentioned.
The trees appeared small and shrubby, and the savannahsdry and rusty.
The trees appeared very green and flourishing; and the savannahsseemed to be very smooth and even; no meadow in England appears more green in the spring than these.
Both these islands appeared very pleasant, having spots of green savannahs mixed among the woodland: the trees appeared very green and flourishing, and some of them looked white and full of blossoms.
On these magnificent savannahs he reared the Toorkman steed, and soon boasted an unrivalled stud.
Its position was most insalubrious, for the marshy swamps commenced at the very base of hills, and thus as it were encircled the savannahs with a belt of miasma.
The natives still believe that the soul of the tyrant wanders in the savannahs like a flame, which flies on the approach of men.
Through dream and vision did she sink, Delighted all the while to think That on those lonesome floods And green Savannahs she should share His board with lawful joy, and bear His name in the wild woods.
The hinterlands consist of undulating open savannahs rising into hills and mountains, some grass-covered, some in dense forest.
The colour of the water of the rivers and creeks is in general a dark brown, caused by the infusion of vegetable matter, but where the streams run for a long distance through savannahs they are of a milky colour.
Like the other territories of Guiana the Dutch colony is divided physically into a low coast-land, savannahs and almost impenetrable forest.
More to the north, one encounters nothing but monotonous savannahs and forests with gigantic trees.
How, in fact, can I establish a positive distinction between the animals of the Prairies or the Savannahs and those of the Forests, between those of the latter and the animals proper to the Mountains?
In Asia, in Africa, in America, as well as in the great islands of the Pacific Ocean, the forests and the savannahs re-echo all night with discordant cries.
The savannahs and marshes of the ancient continent are frequented by birds of great stature: Cursores, Raptores, and Palmipeds.
Who among us has not eagerly followed them in their long journeys across the rolling savannahs and through the primeval forests?
Grassy savannahs and wide cultivated areas are here inhabited by a numerous population.
In northern Guinea and the Gaboon, recently made famous by Du Chaillu's discovery of the gorilla, Savannahs and cultivated districts are intermingled, though their flora is still imperfectly known.
A French Buccaneer going one day into the savannahs to hunt, followed by his engage, was suddenly surrounded by a troop of shouting Lanceros.
This Tortuga was to the refugee hunters of the savannahs what New Providence became to the pirates, and the Galapagos islands to the South Sea adventurers of half a century later.
In the savannahs the Spaniards were formidable, but in the woods they became a certain prey to the musketeer.
At first, when the green savannahs were spotted black with cattle, the hunters were so fastidious that they seldom ate anything but the udders of cows, considering bull meat too tough.
The hunters of the wild cattle in the savannahs of Hispaniola were known under the designation of Buccaneers as early as the year 1630.
Yes, in the great savannahs to which the French have given the name of Mirebalais.
We rode up the right side of the river, high up above the stream, as the banks are rocky and precipitous; then down a shelving road to a lower level, and across undulating savannahs thinly timbered.
On the savannahs they are much less frequent than in the forest region.
The line that separates it from the grassy savannahsis sinuous and irregular.
The dry savannahs were before us, our hearts were young as the morning, the tormenting spirits of the night had flown away with the darkness, and jest and banter enlivened the road.
The band of auriferous quartz veins worked at Santo Domingo continues westward for eight miles, as far as the savannahs near Libertad, and has been largely mined in the neighbourhood of that town, and between that point and Santo Domingo.
Unlike the plains and savannahs we crossed yesterday, where the ground is parched up in the dry season, the Atlantic forest, bathed in the rains distilled from the north-east trades, is ever verdant.
After descending about 1000 feet, we issued from the forest and passed over well-grassed savannahssurrounded by high ranges, on the eastern slopes of which were forests of pine-trees.
As I rode back over the savannahs to Juigalpa, the nearly vertical rays of the sun were reflected from the dry, hot, sandy soil.
To the south the eye first passes over about six miles of forest, then savannahs and grassy ranges stretching to the lake, which is only dimly seen, with the peaks of Madera and Ometepec more distinct, the latter bearing south-west by west.
I afterwards saw other species in the forests and savannahs of Chontales.
From Bath we went into the Plantain Garden River Valley, one of the richest and most beautiful savannahsin the island.
Study immediately the tactics of military discipline; proceed to the green savannahs of Florida; wrest their authority from those who now possess it, and deck your own brows of loveliness with the wreaths of conquest and of glory.
Fortunately for him my men translated the order in its most literal sense; and being at the time in the middle of vast savannahs entirely destitute of trees, the execution was held over, as it was an impossibility to perform it.
This space is covered with mountains, savannahs and forests.
Far remote on the savannahs I could pick out twirls of smoke rising into the blue weather, the signs of Indian hunting fires.
These were, the great savannahs where herds of wild cattle and deer roamed, and where the Free Companions came to fill their larders.
He looked eastwards, where the green savannahs spread beyond the reach of human eye.
The savannahs and ponds were larger; the summits of the ridges more gravelly; and here and there rocks, formed of a sort of concrete of sand and shells, were seen above the sand and gravel.
Our intention was to make our way into the Cordillera, and, passing round the volcano of Orizava, to descend into the savannahs beyond, slanting off to the left so as ultimately to reach the sea.
In many geographical works, the savannahs of South America are termed prairies.
What most strongly characterizes the savannahs or steppes of South America, is the entire absence of hills, or inequalities of any kind.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "savannahs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
