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  • To make her part the winds over the Mongolian steppes, soar over Antarctica, and weather the storms of Terra Nova.†  (source)
  • We can bike through the Mongolian steppe.†  (source)
  • led canyons and steppes of flame forest that are roughed in on the orbital survey map I carry.†  (source)
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  • Rivers, hills, valleys, buttes, steppes, glaciers, swamps, mountains, prairies, chasms, seas, islands, people.†  (source)
    steppes = extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
  • Olmsted's plans alone would make the exposition unique, with lagoons, canals, and great lawns all set against the cobalt-blue steppe of Lake Michigan.†  (source)
  • I admired the immense, steppelike expanse of the lady's wool-dad bosom as she retreated a few inches from my eye, down the creaking wooden stair, a sort of Siberian bitterness on her vivid lips.†  (source)
  • Somewhere in the recumbent solitudes, the motionless but teeming millions of books, lost in two dozen turns right, three dozen turns left, down aisles, through doors, toward dead ends, locked doors, half-empty shelves, somewhere in the literary soot of Dickens's London, or Dostoevsky's Moscow or the steppes beyond, somewhere in the vellumed dust of atlas or Geographic, sneezes pent but set like traps, the boys crouched, stood, lay sweating a cool and constant brine.†  (source)
  • We find him outside, standing by the taxi and looking through factory smoke at the low mountains that run across the steppe.†  (source)
  • They lived in colder climates—on steppes, snowy plateaus, that sort of place.†  (source)
  • The steppe was barren and windswept, with a dry wind in the summer and a freezing one in winter.†  (source)
  • He gave him a pair of gloves lined with rabbit fur, a hat worthy of the steppes, and an overcoat with a plush collar, tried and proven in the icy winters of Bavaria.†  (source)
  • St. George was galloping over the boundless expanse of the steppe.†  (source)
  • Thousands upon thousands were being killed at sea and on the steppes of Russia.†  (source)
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