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    Usa "steppe" in una frase

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    1. Kara – These lapis lazuli beads come from the mountains of the Russian steppe … Lapis is deemed to be the stone of truth (though you know my skepticism of such ideas!) but seems appropriate as no soul is more truthful than yours


    2. The planet was mostly jungle, with a so-called normal atmosphere, and in the polar reaches there was abundant steppe and muskeg


    3. The flat world of the steppe inspires in


    4. steppe with no idea of where they were headed


    5. through the steppe, they presumed that their destinies were moving


    6. They were no less vulnerable to this wind than the rare steppe


    7. There was no steppe dust up there as there


    8. Above the valley the lodge owned a plateau, a steppe of transitionary bushveld


    9. Forest or steppe inhab-


    10. the Steppe Nomads pyramidalized the sky as their main Deity

    11. The Central Asian Steppe nomads were healthier, less corrupt than the settled cultures


    12. I headed along a barren path through steppe coming again to the sunflowers whose colours blazed in the afternoon light, the buzz of the crickets unheard, the mosquitoes on the last watch before circadian rhythms would urge them fly for fresh meat


    13. In the vast steppe, bathed in sunshine, he could just see, like black specks, the nomads' tents


    14. Henceforth the memory of Leon was the centre of her boredom; it burnt there more brightly than the fire travellers have left on the snow of a Russian steppe


    15. ‘How fine it must be galloping over the steppes on a steppe horse! Eh? isn’t it?’ he said


    16. He had imagined riding on a steppe horse as something wild and romantic, and it turned out nothing of the sort


    17. He could not, any more than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has once recognized it to be a tuft of grass


    18. They were called steppe peasants


    19. Alpatych, who had reached Bogucharovo shortly before the old prince’s death, noticed an agitation among the peasants, and that contrary to what was happening in the Bald Hills district, where over a radius of forty miles all the peasants were moving away and leaving their villages to be devastated by the Cossacks, the peasants in the steppe region round Bogucharovo were, it was them that passed from hand to hand, and did not migrate


    20. On the dull steppe, in a poor mud hut, thou—

    21. And ditties of the steppe she loved


    22. Would you have thought that the man who led you to a shelter on the steppe was the great Czar himself?” Saying these words, he assumed a grave and mysterious air


    23. This road was blocked up and hidden by snow; but across the steppe were traces of horses, renewed from day to day, apparently, and clearly visible


    24. She kept her promise, and did not breathe a word indeed to anyone, save only to the Pope's wife, and that for the very good reason that the good lady's cow, being still out on the steppe, might be "lifted" by the robbers


    25. The people whom we could see on the steppe, noticing doubtless some stir in the fort, gathered into parties, and consulted together


    26. The horsemen at once dispersed at a gallop, and the steppe was deserted


    27. Vassilissa Igorofna, whom the sound of the bullets had somewhat subdued, glanced towards the steppe, where a great stir was visible in the crowd, and said to her husband—


    28. Well, would you ever have thought, sir, that the man who guided you to a lodging in the steppe was the great Tzar himself?" As he said these words he assumed a grave and mysterious air


    29. "One chintz rug, another of wadded silk, four roubles; one pelisse fox skin lined with red ratteen, forty roubles; and lastly, a small hareskin 'touloup,' which was left in the hands of your lordship in the wayside house on the steppe, fifteen roubles


    30. This road was deep in snow, and nearly hidden; but across the steppe were to be seen tracks of horses each day renewed

    31. I long watched the steppe over which his "kibitka" was rapidly gliding


    32. I related how my acquaintance with Pugatchéf had begun, on the steppe, in the midst of a snowstorm; how he had recognized me and granted me my life at the taking of Fort Bélogorsk


    33. In the vast steppe, bathed in sunshine, he could just see, like black specks, the nomads’ tents


    34. How one would have liked to fly away beyond this steppe, which began on the opposite shore and stretched out for fifteen hundred versts to the south like an immense table-cloth


    35. I noticed that in spring there was much more squabbling in our prison; there was more noise, the yelling was greater, there were more fights; during the working hours we would see a man sometimes fixed in a meditative gaze, which seemed lost in the blue distance somewhere, the other side of the Irtych, where stretched the boundless plain, with its flight of hundreds of versts, the free Kirghiz Steppe


    36. He had been to the southern frontier of the empire, the other side of the Danube, in the Kirghiz Steppe, in Eastern Siberia, the Caucasus, in a word, everywhere


    37. The air freshened, and the night, the night of the steppe, became comparatively cold


    38. Whether that was attributable to the want of spirit in the convicts, the severity of the military discipline enforced, or, after all, to the situation of the town, little favourable to escapes, for it was in the midst of the open steppe, I really cannot say


    39. They rode through the steppe, and talked, and looked about them


    40. When the steppe came to an end, the road entered a cleft between two mountains

    41. Before him lay the steppe and the fortress, as in the palm of the hand, and to the left, close by at the foot of the mountain, fires were burning and going out, and the smoke was spreading, and men were near the camp-fires


    42. Chevalier, marvelling at the innocence of the old man, who apparently imagined that he was in the Trukhmén steppe, or supposed that all these things would be given him without pay, informed him that he could have all those things, Peter Ivánovich was in ecstasy


    43. He heard Russian being spoken, and also heard the rapid smooth flow of the Terek, and a few steps farther in front of him saw the brown moving surface of the river, with the dim-coloured wet sand of its banks and shallows, the distant steppe, the cordon watch-tower outlined above the water, a saddled and hobbled horse among the brambles, and then the mountains opening out before him


    44. The golden moon was descending towards the steppe


    45. Three miles beyond the village the steppe spread out and nothing was visible except the dry, monotonous, sandy, dismal plain covered with the footmarks of cattle, and here and there with tufts of withered grass, with low reeds in the flats, and rare, little-trodden footpaths, and the camps of the nomad Nogay tribe just visible far away


    46. The sun always rises and sets red in the steppe


    47. That morning in the steppe it was quiet and dull, though the sun had already risen


    48. In reality it was very much like the rest of the steppe, but because the ABREKS sat there it seemed to detach itself from all the rest and to have become distinguished


    49. The life of a laboring man, with its endlessly varied forms of labor, and the dangers connected with this labor on sea and underground; his migrations, the intercourse with his employers, overseers, and companions, and with men of other religions and other nationalities; his struggles with nature and with wild beasts, the associations with domestic animals, the work in the forest, on the steppe, in the field, the garden, the orchard; his intercourse with wife and children, not only as with people near and dear to him, but as with co-workers and helpers in labor, replacing him in time of need; his concern in all economic questions, not as matters of display or discussion, but as problems of life for himself and his family; his pride in self-suppression and service to others, his pleasures of refreshment; and with all these interests permeated by a religious attitude toward these occurrences—all this to us, who have not these interests and possess no religious perception, seems monotonous in comparison with those small enjoyments and insignificant cares of our life,—a life, not of labor nor of production, but of consumption and destruction of that which others have produced for us


    50. It was hot, dusty, the sun scorching and no shade at all—bare steppe, with not a tree or a bush the whole way






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