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Example sentences for "vast plain"

  • On the day fixed ’it was Good Friday), a funeral pile, made of branches of olive, was erected in the middle of a vast plain.

  • The tents of the Franks covered a vast plain, and their army presented a most majestic and terrible aspect.

  • This city, which historians call by turns Acca, Accon, and Acre, was built at the western extremity of a vast plain.

  • The camp of the Crusaders extended over a vast plain, intersected by rivulets which fell from the mountains.

  • We distinguish at a distance, by the eye only, trunks of trees insulated in a vast plain, though the subtended angle be under twenty-five seconds.

  • We were alone, without arms, half a league from any habitation, on a vast plain bounded by the sea.

  • We had to cross a vast plain, called el Salado, which divides the suburb of the Guayquerias from the sea-coast.

  • At that period of the year when the rice was harvested, the shepherds explored the mountains, and drove these animals to a vast plain at a short distance from my dwelling.

  • From the summit of one of the Pyramids, in religious abstraction, I had contemplated the majestic Nile, which glides serpent-like through a vast plain, bordered by the Desert and arid mountains.

  • On entering into a vast plain we saw an Igorrot, flying away as quickly as possible.

  • On the route we had a boundless vista through the hills, over a vast plain, covered with a scattered forest, extending without end towards the north.

  • We encamped on a vast plain, having ranges of low mountains on our right and left.

  • Skirt the mountain-chain on our right, and traverse a vast plain, scattered with pebbles and other small stones.

  • We frequently find this sort of Desert geological phenomena; a range of rocky hills or mountains has a parallel range of sand hills, and the intermediate space is a broad valley or vast plain.

  • At one time they arrived upon a vast plain, spreading out for leagues, as far as the eye could extend, without a bush or shrub to intercept the sight.

  • The interminable host filled a vast plain, six miles square, with their thronging multitudes.

  • As seen for miles along the road, an artificial mountain, standing in the solitude of a vast plain, it is a most imposing and beautiful object.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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