At length the white wagon coverings rose from the verge of the plain.
The lightning flashed all night, playing with its livid glare upon the neighboring trees, revealing the vast expanse of the plain, and then leaving us shut in as by a palpable wall of darkness.
It stood in the middle of the plain; a disorderly crowd of men around it, and an emigrant camp a little in front.
The plain of Mardia in Thrace was the theatre of a second battle no less obstinate and bloody than the former.
Though little more than forty years of age, her hair was quite gray; and she wore over it the plain cap of an old woman.
I then wrung Belle's hand, and ascended to the plain above.
On arriving at the extremity of the plain, I looked towards the dingle.
Tarzan slipped the thong of the empty pouch over his shoulder and started off through the trees in the direction of the plain.
A mile or more ahead of them, the line of warriors was creeping like a giant caterpillar through the tall grasses of the plain.
Footnote 4112: He was forbidden to pitch his tents on an eminence because Attila's were below on the plain.
Mac 10:73 Wherefore now thou shalt not be able to abide the horsemen and so great a power in the plain, where is neither stone nor flint, nor place to flee unto.
Esdr 4:15 The floods of the sea also in like manner took counsel, and said, Come, let us go up and subdue the woods of the plain, that there also we may make us another country.
Mac 3:40 So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plain country.
Luke 14:26] So he looked not behind him, but fled towards the middle of the plain.
Now I saw in my dream, that just as they had ended this talk they drew near to a very miry slough, that was in the midst of the plain; and they, being heedless, did both fall suddenly into the bog.
Now, I saw in my dream, that when Obstinate was gone back, Christian and Pliable went talking over the plain; and thus they began their discourse.
As far as the eye could see there was not a person on the plain or on the path.
The two generals had attentively studied the plain of Mont-Saint-Jean, now called the plain of Waterloo.
He went on foot when it was in the neighborhood, in a tilted spring-cart when it was on the plain, and on a donkey in the mountains.
Such funeral rites, as the circumstances of time and place would admit, were piously discharged to some officers of distinguished rank; but the indiscriminate vulgar was left unburied on the plain.
These detachments were, however, supported by a much greater force; and the heads of the columns were no sooner pointed towards the Tigris than a cloud of dust arose on the plain.
The former were the men of the hills, and the latter those of the plain.
But when the others had gone forth from the people and the city, along the path by which at the first they had come from the plain, then Argus addressed Jason with these words: (ll.
And here is the plain of Doeas, and near are the three cities of the Amazons, and after them the Chalybes, most wretched of men, possess a soil rugged and unyielding sons of toil, they busy themselves with working iron.
The plain, I wis, is called Circe's; and here in line grow many willows and osiers, on whose topmost branches hang corpses bound with cords.
The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.
He left the mesa several years ago, and went to the plain below to live.
The plain, tepid bath is the best for general use.
The plain on which the mountain stands is covered by a layer of red sandstone of variable thickness, as it is much worn in places by weather erosion.
Moreover, the plain is strewn in the vicinity of the crater with bits of limonite, a mineral frequently produced by the action of air and water on iron sulphides, and this material is much more abundant than the iron.
Here and there some lurking form stumbled through the dark among the rubbish; and clearest sound of all, the light crack of billiard balls reached dry and far into the night Barker contemplated the stars and calm splendid dimness of the plain.
From each one a stream comes flowing clearly out into the plain, and fields spread green along the margins.
As he reached the highway he heard himself familiarly addressed from a distance, and, turning, saw four sons of the alkali jogging into town from the plain.
The Drybone road was a broad trail, a worn strip of bareness going onward over the endless shelvings of the plain, visible even in this light; and presently, moving upon its grayness on a hill in front of them, they made out the wagon.
It was not until the next day that they discovered a pair of fine bulls on the edge of the plain, among rocks and ravines.
The scouts soon returned, having proceeded no further than the edge of the plain, pretending that their horses were lame; but it was evident they had feared to venture, with so small a force, into these exposed and dangerous regions.
While some of the surest marksmen advanced cautiously with their rifles into the rough ground, four of the best mounted horsemen took their stations in the plain, to run the bulls down should they only be maimed.
There was at this time an assemblage of Nez Perces, Flatheads, and Cottonois Indians encamped together upon the plain; well provided with beaver, which they had collected during the spring.
In the course of the day they discovered a solitary horseman hovering at a distance before them on the plain.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the plain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
