He had been ordered to the Plains as a last resource, but was much worse.
We stopped at a log house and got a rough dinner of beef and potatoes, and I was amused at the five men who shared it with us for apologizing to me for being without their coats, as if coats would not be an enormity on the Plains.
He advanced to meet him as far as the plains of Spoleto.
As Zosimus and some of his followers mistake the Danube for the Tanais, they place the field of battle in the plains of Scythia.
A numerous body of the Alemanni penetrated across the Danube and through the Rhaetian Alps into the plains of Lombardy, advanced as far as Ravenna, and displayed the victorious banners of barbarians almost in sight of Rome.
After the excitement of life on the plains, going to school was dull work; but Will realized that there was a world beyond the prairie's horizon, and he entered school, determined to do honest work.
But Will discovered that life onthe plains is not all a supper under the stars when the sparks fly upward; it has its hardships and privations.
Perhaps his love for the free life of the plains is a heritage derived from some long-gone ancestor; but there can be no doubt that to the earlier experiences of which I am writing he owed his ability as a scout.
The officer told us he did not think there was a family in Germany unrepresented in the plains of St. Privat.
He proposed that we should spend the winter in the West Indies, and after some buffalo-shooting on the plains, return to England in the autumn.
Compared with that on the plains between St. Marie and St. Privat, Gravelotte was but a cavalry skirmish.
A second explanation is that the town lies in a "loop" whose sides are formed by three mountain ridges, along one of which the River Tola runs like the pole or stick of the familiar urga of the plains.
The reason the Buriats and Russians, who were the first to trade into this region, called it Urga was because it was the principal destination of all the trading expeditions which crossed the plains by this old method or right of travel.
Such an one never knew the day or the hour when, in his yurta or beside his galloping horse on the plains, the strange and powerful friend of the Dalai Lama would appear.
All this company had been grazing together with the domestic sheep on the plains of the Adair, which attracted them with its good grass and clear water.
It seemed to Thurston, looking over cuts of the very latest styles in riding clothes, that already he was breathing the atmosphere of the plains.
That is how much his heart just then was set upon writing a story that would breathe of the plains.
Two days later, when the two parties of Sioux met on the plains, the maiden's presence was heralded throughout the camp, as an inspiration to the young and untried warriors of both bands to distinguish themselves in the field.
This seemed to him also a name of good omen, and in the sign language which was common to all the people of the plains, he asked her to be his wife.
On the north side of Shell Lake there were several deep gulches, which were the homes of every wanderer of the plains at such a time at this.
The reconnoitring party had found the dead bodies of Peter Atherly and his sister onthe plains at the edge of the empty wood.
Both he and his sister had some singular hieroglyphic branded on their arms,--probably a reminiscence of their life on the plains in their infant Indian captivity.
The pacha, unable to repel the incursions of these mountaineers, employed the few troops he had in oppressing the inhabitants of the plains, who, groaning under both extortion and rapine, vainly filled the air with their despairing cries.
This was now the whole domain of her who had possessed the palaces, the plains, and the mountains of an entire kingdom.
The inhabitants of the plains, powerless and shelterless, bent like reeds before the storm and evaded the shock against which they were unable to stand.
Anyway, she came pretty close to crossin' the plains, because she was born in a wagon on the River Platte on the way out.
Once, on the Plains, the wagon train she was in, was attacked by Indians.
But this mother was not the Daisy of the plains nor of the daguerreotype.
They had formerly pitched their tents near the southern banks of the Oxus, in the plains of Mahan and Nesa; and it is somewhat remarkable, that the same spot should have produced the first authors of the Parthian and Turkish empires.
When Ninon saw the frost-reddened face of this gallant of the plains, she gave a little cry of delight, and the color rushed back into her face.
And mine to the plains, and if we chose our own we should wander.
And in the ways of Chitor, and up the steep and winding causeway from the plains, were warriors also, the chosen of the Rajputs, thick as blades of corn hedging the path.
Sometimes it had been like rain blowing over the plains of Adzuma, sometimes like the winds roaring down the passes of the Yoshino Mountains, and yet again like the voice of far cities.
At some period in an almost forgotten past there had been a house on Tom's particular patch of the plains.
I call him the master of the plains, but in faith he had no legal claim to the title.
There might have been fifty of them there for all he knew, and he had a clear run to the plains if he wanted to back one of the ponies and take it.
We'll ride down to the plains together, and find a good lonely spot suitable for a graveyard.
She thought, but did not say, that art would go a long way before it could show anything more pleasing than this rider of the plains.
He was not content with occupying Prato and all the castles on the plains on both sides of the Arno, but marched his army into the plain of Peretola, about two miles from Florence.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the plains" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
