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  • We're talking about a storm that is going to affect millions of people that is surging its way across parts of the Rockies, the central plains and eventually moving into the great plains.

    CNN Transcript Dec 1, 2007 2007

  • Somehow you don't want to the contractor who worked for 6 months on your house to see that you let little dustballs drift around the floor like snow on the great plains.

    readersguide Diary Entry readersguide 2007

  • He had a vision of city beyond city, cities on great plains, cities beside great rivers, vast cities along the sea margin, cities girdled by snowy mountains.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

  • Their description of the great plains, where one might look as far as the eye could carry in every direction without seeing house or tree or any obstruction of the vision, fell with all the wonder of the Arabian Nights upon the eager company.

    The Homesteaders A Novel of the Canadian West Robert J. C. Stead 1919

  • He had a vision of city beyond city, cities on great plains, cities beside great rivers, vast cities along the sea margin, cities girdled by snowy mountains.

    When the Sleeper Wakes 1906

  • This is not said of him in the mocking spirit of the Llaneros — men of the great plains — who think that no one in the world knows how to sit

    Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard 1904

  • An outpost of civilization, it was situated on the border of the great plains, which were still looked upon as the natural possession of the nomadic Indian tribes.

    Elder Conklin and Other Stories Frank Harris 1893

  • Llaneros -- men of the great plains -- who think that no one in the world knows how to sit a horse but themselves.

    Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890

  • The cheek-bones were a little high, the features delicate, the figure slender, and there was on her cheeks a rosy bloom that never grew under the cutting winds of the great plains.

    The Candidate A Political Romance 1890

  • At twenty years of age, he joined his brother for a trip to California, _via_ the great plains.

    The Story of the Outlaw A Study of the Western Desperado Emerson Hough 1890

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