prairie

• The forest skirting the border of the prairie was a clump of stunted trees, and there was very little grass or shrubs growing around. —  The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West
• The silence of the prairie was the only response to his cry Greatly alarmed, he returned to his companions, who had now completed their repairs of the canoe. —  The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago
• Cautiously approaching him, I saw by his dull and jellylike eye that he was dead When I began the chase, the prairie was almost tenantless; but a great multitude of buffalo had suddenly thronged upon it, and looking up, I saw within fifty rods a heavy, dark column stretching to the right and left as far as I could see. —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7
• This prairie was their best help, but now they have lost it But Colonel Forster has promised papa sufficient hay for the cows for this winter; indeed, we could not have fed them unless he had done so. —  The Settlers in Canada
• No, the wild ass of the prairie is a large, powerful, swift creature. —  The Dog Crusoe and his Master

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