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- noun Alternative spelling of
pusta .
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Most people who hear the word puszta think straight away of herds of galloping horses pounding across the landscape in Hungary.
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Most people who hear the word puszta think straight away of herds of galloping horses pounding across the landscape in Hungary.
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Most people who hear the word puszta think straight away of herds of galloping horses pounding across the landscape in Hungary.
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The only touristything we did was to visit the ranch even deeper into the middle of the puszta (plain) where frankly bonkers young men rode five horses at a time round in circles at high speed (see picture above).
Acting funny in the middle of nowhere … « Ken Wilson's Blog 2009
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The puszta with its oceanic grasses and shimmering reeds at the center of the great Hungarian plain is an inland dry Wash.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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All I know is how my heart soared out on the Hungarian puszta when I saw my first Great Bustard and how privileged I feel whenever I see a piping plover on the beach at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge during a Saturday plover warden shift.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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All I know is how my heart soared out on the Hungarian puszta when I saw my first Great Bustard and how privileged I feel whenever I see a piping plover on the beach at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge during a Saturday plover warden shift.
rarity 2009
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The major manifestations are the veldts of South Africa, the puszta of Hungary, the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the steppes of the former Soviet Union, and the plains and prairies of central North America.
Grassland biome 2008
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The rallying cry of the wandering musicians of the puszta had some element in it like the cherished tones of the distant bells of his fatherland.
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The soul of the dead seemed to speak in the voice of the heroic music, recalling to the harassed contestants for liberty the great days of the revolts of the fatherland, the old memories of the struggles against the Turks, the furious charges of the cavaliers across the free puszta, the vast Hungarian plain.
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The Hungarian plain.
"The M.O. was a good-looking man, tall and spare, an excellent horseman who mounted his horse every morning at six, whip in hand, and rode off into the puszta at a steady canter, a dwindling figure vanishing into that flat landscape that seemed to consist only of horizon."
- Heinrich Böll, And Where Were You, Adam? (tr. Leila Vennewitz).
January 17, 2008