As a consequence, the pastures and steppes of the old world became inexhaustible fountains, which periodically burst their confines letting loose inundations of humanity, so that they came to be called the “vaginæ gentium.
One may compare the almost magical attraction which the ovum has for the spermatozoön, to the no less magical power by which the herdsmen from the steppes are drawn into the cultivated plains.
The little city of the steppes is the cemetery of the Seven Sorrows.
He had traversed the Baudelairian steppes of blasphemy and black pessimism; Baudelaire, a poet who was a great critic.
There stood Selma Gordon, regarding them with an expression of anger as wild as the blood of the steppes that flowed in her veins.
She looked as if she ought to be careening on the steppes in some romantic, half-savage costume.
The formation of Affghanistan is very curious: it consists of a wide extent of country, variously elevated steppes being separated by ridges usually very accessible, generally isolated.
Nor is it unworthy of remark, surely, that one of the depressed steppes of this peculiar region is known as the "Low Steppe of the Caucasus," and forms no inconsiderable portion of the great recognized centre of the human family.
They inhabit thesteppes of Tartary, and but rarely venture into Europe.
Innumerable troops of them are to be seen in the steppes of Tartary and Southern Russia.
Spain and the South of France; it is common on the steppes of Southern Russia, of Tartary, Manchuria, Northern China, and in the North of Africa.
A well-known traveller describes a scene he witnessed on the steppes of Tartary, where a pair of them attacked and killed a brace of wolves with the greatest apparent ease.
Seeing Jehungir's look of amazement, Ghaznavi continued: 'We will ask for a parley with the kozaks in regard to prisoners, at the edge of the steppes by Fort Ghori.
Bratslav and the Wilderness a green fleece covered the steppes and plains in the middle of December.
Besides, in the distant steppes Latin did not flourish as a rule, and such princes as the Kurtsevichi did not know it any better than Bogun and other atamans.
Maybe he remembered this affair at that moment; for he fell to thinking, and rode on in silence, his eyes wandering over the broad steppes which lay on both sides of the road.
Marvels were related of those mysterious steppes and pine-groves in which such a knighthood was born.
He was a Russian like those who in their day campaigned in thesteppes with Psheslav, Lantskoronski, and Samek Zborovski.
The Saitch, confined within too narrow limits, was unable to feed all its inhabitants; expeditions were not always successful; besides, thesteppes yielded no bread to the Cossacks.
Hmelnitski rose out of the steppes and grew into a giant.
The endless monotony of pine groves and steppes was varied by the smoke of cottages, the gilded towers of churches,--Catholic and orthodox.
But at this time the prince's men, who, for the greater part had been reared on the lofty dry steppes of the Trans-Dnieper, could not believe their own eyes.
Those who wished to pass him by and subdue him are trembling, and he takes those iron legions and leads them into the steppes of the Ukraine, to victories and triumphs such as history has not yet known.
Turkish nomads from the central Asiatic steppes had been drifting into the Moslem world as the vigour of the Arabs waned.
We have marked its stealthy movement into the steppes and deserts of Syria, Mesopotamia, and Arabia-- now drawn back, now pushed farther till it has reached and held regions over which Mahmud could claim nothing but a suzerainty in name.
According to Bulgarian historians, the basins of the rivers Volga and Don and the steppes of eastern Russia proved too confined a space for the legitimate development of Bulgarian energy, and expansion to the west was decided on.
Over thousands of square miles on our own great plains or on the steppes of Russia, both subject to violent winds, the great bulk of the vegetation is wind fertilized.
The prickly fruits of cocklebur resulted in one species of that weed from the steppes of Russia being carried all over southern Europe in a comparatively few years.
The steppes of Russia and our Great Plains are predominately grassy; in the wonderful bamboo forests in the tropics are also woody representatives of this family.
The South was a fortress beleaguered; seven hundred thousand square miles of territory lost and inland as the steppes of Tartary, for all her ports were blocked by Northern men-of-war.
I said that these were Russian steppes and that this was a march from Moscow, but that we had not a Napoleon to soften privation for us.
Caspian, where it terminates in the Apsheron peninsula; the steppesof the lower Kura and Aras on the south of the Caucasus, and a narrow coast-belt between the Anti-Caucasus and the Caspian.
The steppes of the Kura are also fertile, but require artificial irrigation, especially for cotton.
Draw a line on a globe from the Gold Coast in Western Africa to the steppes of Tartary.
The grim old Turkhoman lady was sympathetic about the horses, as a daughter of the Steppes must needs be, but stern over the necessities of war.
Over the White Mountains likely, amid eternal snows, across the high lying steppes to Kashgar, and so onwards.
South-west of Siberia, and stretching eastward from the Caspian, is a low-lying tract consisting to a great extent of steppes and deserts, and including in its area the Sea of Aral.
In Greece, and especially in the southern steppes of Russia and Poland, it is found in profusion; and its edible qualities were esteemed by the ancients.
Not at the greatest height I reached among the Himalayas, nor on the Steppes of Tartary, had I experienced a cold severer than this.
As wide as thesteppes are, so many are the songs of his actions; and then he is so covered with glory, though youthful; so bloody, though so beloved.
He waved his hand, and the steppes were cleared of Tartars.
Wastes as dreary and desolate as the steppes of Central Russia or the deserts of Turkestan sometimes stretched away to the horizon on either side of the track.
To one who has traveled these steppes such a flight seems terrible, and the mind hesitates to picture the sufferings of the sad fugitives.
In New Russia, in the khanates of Kazan and Crimea, in the steppes of the Lower Volga, and in the wastes of Siberia, it would not be true.
Sixteen thousand men and women were seized by the police; arranged in gangs; and driven with rods and thongs across the dreary steppes and yet more dreary mountain crests into the Caucasus.
We camped in some flowering grasses with the bare steppes of the pampa on one side and the dark hills on the other; behind these, among some bright streaks in the stormy billowy sky, the Sierra Ventana thrust up its crest.
New Year's Day we covered eight leagues of bare and arid steppes of pampa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "steppes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
