Sea level to about 1800 meters along the Pacific versant of western Mexico from central Guerrero to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (Fig.
Low to moderate elevations on the Pacific versant of southeastern Chiapas, Mexico (Fig.
Previous authors who treated Syrrhophus placed this species in the western complex, because it occurs on the Pacific versant and has a reduced outer palmar tubercle.
Low to moderate elevations along the Pacific versant of Chiapas and in the Grijalva valley of Chiapas and Guatemala (Fig.
Diaz calls the two last, Teuleticle and Teatical; but though his facts are fully more to be depended upon, Clavigero may be accounted better versant in Mexican orthography.
His literary education likewise had been so carefully attended to, that he was considered as more versant in these things than his situation required.
On the western side of the sierras the versant is short, and the streams, while very numerous, are consequently small and rapid; but on the eastern side a number of the rivers attain a very considerable development.
The purest of the Ladin dialects occur on the northern versant of the Alps in the Grisons (Switzerland), and they form the western section of the system.
To the north it terminates with the Apennines; for Romagna Toscana, the strip of country on the Adriatic versant which belongs to it administratively, is assigned to Emilia as regards dialect.
Here De Gama landed, and sent one of his men, who was well versant in the Negro languages to visit the king, and who was received with much civility, receiving presents of the produce of the country on his dismissal.
He was well versant in military affairs and took great delight in war, of which he endured the labours and privations with much patient fortitude.
For this purpose, they gave orders to Diego Garcias de Alfaro, an inhabitant of Lima who was versant in maritime affairs, to repair and fit out the two barks which had drifted on shore.
The Kayan or Bulungan river is the only other in the eastern versant that calls for mention.
The one great river of the eastern versant is the Kutei or Mahakan, which, rising in the central mountains, flows east with a sinuous course and falls by numerous mounts into the Straits of Madassar.
Most of the rivers of the northern versant are comparatively small, as the island narrows into a kind of promontory.
In the south-western versant the largest river is the Kapuas, which, rising near the centre of the island, falls into the sea between Mampawa and Sukadana after a long and winding course.
The Golfo Dulce region and the Caribbean versant are humid and inhabited by Hyla elaeochroa.
Hyla staufferi does not occur on the Caribbean versant of Costa Rica and Panama.
The western versant supplies the gold of Senegambia, the southern that of Ashanti and Wásá.
On the inland versant a narrow native shaft has been sunk for gold by Mr. Sam, now native agent under Mr. Crocker.
On this a person of Alexandria, who was present, requested of the kadi that these men might be sent for, since they were learned men, versant in the scriptures, and it would be right to dispute with them concerning the faith.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "versant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
