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Sentences starting with prairie

Prairie grass, is it? [9]
Prairie liens, from Illinois. [5]

Sentences ending with prairie

They said it was rumoured that the enemy were advancing in our direction, from over Hyde's prairie. [5]
I was ordered to place a picket at the forks of the road in Hyde's prairie. [5]
Peace brooded in the silent and comforting forest, and Jim and Arrowhead, the Indian ever ahead, swung along, mile after mile, on their snow-shoes, emerging at last upon the wide white prairie. [11]
He knew that the Romanys were gathering in the prairie. [11]
I'm cutting across the prairie. [11]
Upon her practical strength of body and mind had come that rugged poetical sense, which touches all who live the life of mountain and prairie. [11]
He waited till she sprang into her waggon, after the Healer had mounted his mule and ridden away with ever-quickening pace into the prairie. [11]
P'r'aps he didn't remember anything except that he and Greevy quarrelled, and that Greevy and he shot at each other in the prairie. [11]
At that moment Orlando saw in the distance, far north of both Tralee and Slow Down Ranch, a horse, ridden by a woman, galloping on the prairie. [11]
It was night on the prairie. [11]

Sentences containing prairie two or more times

But as it was, in the upper room where Louise sat all day looking out over the prairie, and on the prairie where business carried Orlando from ranch to ranch on this perfect day, no recreant thought or feeling existed. [11]

More example sentences with the word prairie in them

The good you would put in a mill to watch the stones grind, and the bad you would put on a prairie alone to make the grist for the grinding. [11]
Suddenly, a being with a red shirt, with loose prairie kind of hat, knee- boots, having metal clamps, strikes out from the shore, running on the tops of the moving logs till he reaches the jam. [11]
She remembered that, when her father and others had slept so long after the prairie fire, she had waked them once to give them drink and a little food, and they did not breathe so heavily as he was doing. [11]
The prairie standards were not low; but tolerance is natural where the community is ready-made; where people from all points of the compass come together with all sorts of things behind them; where standards have at first no organized sanction. [11]
By the time we touched the brown-green prairie on the farther side the sand was rolling behind us. [11]
The next morning we took up our march silently with the dawn, the prairie grouse whirring ahead of us. [9]
The widow Tynan was practical, and she saw none of those things which made her daughter stand for minutes at a time and look into the distance over the prairie towards the sunset light or the grey- blue foothills. [11]
But the singin' was goin' past and recedin' as before, till it died away along the waves of prairie grass. [11]
One night he walk away on the prairie, and when he come back he have a great pain. [11]
His forehead was unwrinkled--a rare thing in that prairie country where the dry air corrugates the skin; his light-brown hair curled loosely on the brow, graduating back to closer, crisper curls which in their thickness made a kind of furry cap. [11]
All day long, under the burning sun, he follows the herd over the rainless prairie, as it nibbles here and there the short grass and slowly gathers its food. [4]
His face turned towards the prairie North and the mountain West where yet remained the hunter's quarry; and he longed to be away with rifle and gun, with his squaw and the papooses trailing after like camp- followers, to eat the fruits of victory. [11]
Her face was touched with the light that shone from the Prairie Star. [11]
Well, I'd like to tie Mr. Felix Marchand, Esquire, to his back, and let him loose on the prairie, and pray the Lord to save him if he thought fit. [11]
In the introduction to 'The World for Sale' in this series, I drew a description of prairie life, and I need not repeat what was said there. [11]
For a long time she sat gazing at the young, corn waving on the prairie, fingering the bunch of June roses on her lap. [9]
Once 'pon a time dey wuz a monsus mean man, en he live 'way out in de prairie all 'lone by hisself, 'cep'n he had a wife. [5]
Mazarine drove fast through the town, as though eager to put it behind him, but when he reached the trail on the prairie he slackened his pace, and drove steadily homewards, lost in the darkest reflections he had ever known; and that was saying much. [11]
I sent the three men away, and then opened the sty gate and beckoned Sandy to come--which she did; and not leisurely, but with the rush of a prairie fire. [5]
He slept with them, and they slept on the mails--to guard: as though there should be highwaymen on the Prairie of the Ten Stars! [11]
One day in the summer just past she had watched him and his company put away to rest under the cool sod, where many another lay in silent company, a prairie wanderer, some outcast from a better life gone by. [11]
Some comments upon the story suggested that it was impossible for a man to spend the night on the prairie with a woman whom he loved without causing her to forget her marriage vows. [11]
Shortly after leaving the small village of Welden, we entered upon that tremendous prairie solitude that stretches its leagues on leagues of houseless dreariness far away toward the jubilee Settlements. [5]
I was in the prairie, and it was scorched and brown to the horizon. [9]
He had scanned the prairie till night came, without seeing a sign of her. [11]
All men of the prairie spoke well of him. [11]
She sped along the prairie road as fast as she could, once or twice stopping to call aloud. [11]
She went to the kitchen and brought bread, and cold venison, and prairie fowl, and stewed dried apples--the stay and luxury of all rural Canadian homes. [11]
So I took the gun and went up a piece into the woods, and was hunting around for some birds when I see a wild pig; hogs soon went wild in them bottoms after they had got away from the prairie farms. [5]
It swims through the great gap in the mountains, and passing down the valley, sinks upon the prairie of the Ten Stars, where it is lost. [11]
Nettlewood Foyle watched the dust rising from the wheels of the stage, which had passed the elevator and was nearing the Prairie Home Hotel far down the street. [11]
We stan' at the door and look out, and all the prairie is green, and the sun stan' up high like a light on a pole, and the birds fly by ver' busy looking for the summer and the prairie-flower. [11]
In truth, until the day he had met Louise, or rather until the day of the broncho-busting, and the fateful night on the prairie, he had never grown up. [11]
And now, by the car window, looking out over the endless roll of the prairie, the memory of this was bitter within her. [9]
He was paying teller of the Prairie Bank, and the thermometer registered something above 90 deg. [9]
From thence eastward stretched the great waste of prairie and forest inhabited by roving bands of the forty Indian nations. [9]
If that Prairie Star were only at Vancouver or Winnipeg instead of here, our Val could be something, more than a prairie-rider. [11]
They were a sorry rabble, for they rushed on La Prairie, that meagre place,--massacred and turned tail. [11]
He had been seen riding full speed into the prairie towards the Kourmash Wood, and the starlit night had swallowed him. [11]
Just then we see some of Steve Nickerson's people coming that lived t'other side of the prairie, so Tom says: "You do it elegant; I never see anybody do it better. [5]
Harry shouldered his rod and went to the field, tramped over the prairie by day, and figured up results at night, with the utmost cheerfulness and industry, and plotted the line on the profile paper, without, however, the least idea of engineering practical or theoretical. [5]
It was a quarrel over cards, an' Greevy was drunk, an' followed Clint out into the prairie in the night and shot him like a coyote. [11]
Almost unconsciously she put on the little table beside the bed a bunch of everlasting prairie flowers, and shaded the light to the point of quiet and comfort. [11]
Alone on the prairie--a separate prairie for every criminal--that would take a lot of space; but the idea is all right. [11]
Alone on the prairie for punishment--well, I should like to see it tried. [11]
Had it been possible she would have fled into the far prairie and set up a lonely tabernacle there; for with the day came a reaction from the courage possessing her the night before and in the opal wakening of the dawn. [11]
Pierre's wanderings took place in a period when civilization had made but scant marks upon the broad bosom of the prairie land, and towns and villages were few and far scattered. [11]
They fairly shook out of me what had happened, and then dropped me with a war-whoop and started for the prairie, I after them, crying out to them to beware of the run. [9]
The vehicles met on the road were a variety of the prairie schooner, long wagons with a top of hoops over which is stretched a cotton cloth. [4]
I've never been on the prairie before," she added. [11]
Wild ducks settled on the lake not far from him with a swish and flutter; a coyote ran past, veering as it saw the recumbent figure; a prairie hen rustled by with a shrill cluck, but he seemed oblivious to all. [11]
Hodder looked out of the window of the sleeper to read the sign 'Marcion' against the yellow brick of the station set down in the prairie mud, and flanked by a long row of dun-colored freight cars backed up to a factory. [9]
The long hillocks of prairie rolled away like the sea to the flushed morning, and the far-off Cypress Hills broke the monotonous skyline of the south. [11]
He was thinking of Norah, to whom a waif of the prairie had made home what home should be for herself and Nolan Doyle. [11]
And as for obeying orders, why, the prairie is wide, it is a hard ride, horses go wrong; --a little tale of trouble to Inspector Jules, another at Fort Desire, and who is to know except Pete Galbraith, Jen Galbraith, and Pierre? [11]
Val is safe now--" In a low strained voice, interrupting him, she said, "Did Val leave you wounded so on the prairie? [11]
Peter Galbraith could not fully understand his daughter's fascination for this Prairie Star, as the North-West people called it. [11]
The day marched nobly on towards evening, growing out of its blue and silver into a pervasive golden gleam; the bare, greyish houses on the prairie were transformed into miniature palaces of light. [11]
She had seen men brought in from fighting prairie fires for three days without sleep; had watched them drop on their beds, and lie like logs for thirty-six hours. [11]
The Prairie Star made the room light enough for her purpose. [11]
The Prairie Star made quivering and luminous curtains of red for the windows, and Jen's mind was quivering in vivid waves of feeling just the same. [11]
Yet as they looked out over the prairie towards Tralee, to which Louise must presently return, a rebellious sort of joy possessed them. [11]
If you will look at the map,[1] you will see, dotted along the bottoms and the bluffs beside the great Mississippi, the string of villages, Kaskaskia, La Prairie du Rocher, Fort Chartres, St. Philip, and Cahokia. [9]
The more you listen, the more you hear on the prairie, especially at night. [11]
But outside the line of vision there sat a man in a prairie hut, whose eyes travelled over the valley of blue sky stretching away beyond the morning, whose face was pale and cold. [11]
From where we lay hid behind log house and palings we strained our eyes towards the prairie to see if Lamothe would take the bait, until our view was ended at the fuzzy top of a hillock. [9]
The Almighty never laid out a cleaner piece of level prairie for a city; and it's the natural center of all that region of hemp and tobacco. [5]
The prairie horse knew the trick of the cord, and leaned away from the captive, so as to keep the thong tensely stretched between his neck and the peak of the saddle to which it was fastened. [6]
And overhead the joy of the prairie grew apace. [11]
The prairie, with its new grass and unending acres of brilliant flowers--chiefly the innumerable varieties of phlox-bore the look of years of cultivation, and the occasional open groves of white oaks gave it a park-like appearance. [5]
And to Stephen it was no less strange to be walking over a muddy road of the prairie with this most singular man and a newspaper correspondent, than it might have been to the sub-terrestrial inhabitant to emerge on the earth's surface. [9]
The prairie gave it to me. [11]
Meyerbeer was certainly incongruous to the prairie, but it and the whistling were in keeping with the man himself. [11]
At this point in the west the prairie merged into an undulating territory, where hill and wood rolled away from the banks of the Saskatchewan, making another England in beauty. [11]
Then we formed in line of battle and marched four miles to a shady and pleasant piece of woods on the border of the far-reached expanses of a flowery prairie. [5]
It'd be safer if he got lost on the prairie for twenty-four hours. [11]
The strife between his prejudices and his sense of justice was what made him always interesting in all the great prairie and foothill country of which Askatoon was the centre. [11]
The woman nursed him faithfully, but still he failed; and when she could go forth no more for food, some unseen dweller of the woods brought buffalo meat, and prairie fowl, and water from the spring, and laid them beside her door. [11]
She stayed with him a whole night on the prairie. [11]
If M. Fille here set fire to a house, you would drop him on the prairie far away from everything and everybody and let him 'root hog or die'? [11]
You heard a heavy rumbling sound; you saw a cloud on the prairie. [11]
The prairie horse he rode, the mustang of the Pampas, wild as he was, had been trained to take part in at least one exercise. [6]
Fifteen years before he had been promoted to be the cashier of the Prairie Bank, and he was the cashier to-day. [9]
Many a man has stood on a wide plain of snow, white to the uttermost horizon, or in the yellow- brown grass of the Summer prairie, empty of all human life so far as eye could see, and yet has felt no solitude. [11]
She was thinking hard, her eyes upon the Prairie Star. [11]
He made long, hard expeditions, defying the weather as the hardiest of prairie and mountain men mostly hesitate to defy it; he bought up much land, then, dissatisfied, sold it again at a loss, but subsequently made final arrangements for establishing a very large farm. [11]
The prairie life had given a shining quality to her handsomeness, an air of depth and firmness, an exquisite health and clearness to the colour in her cheeks. [11]
The sun was gone, leaving only a glimmer behind; the swift twilight of the prairie was drawing down. [11]
When the sun goes down, I down to my bed wherever I be on the prairie. [11]
Where would she go but to the man with whom she had spent the night on the prairie! [11]
Then she would go away, very slowly, and I would hear her calling to me in the wind, from the stars to which I looked up from the prairie. [9]
I had heard from the lawyer in Montreal that Madras, under another name, had gone to the prairie country to enter the mounted police. [11]
To him the flat prairie was never ugly. [11]
He expected to find her improved, of course, but still he could only think of her as an Indian, showing her common prairie origin. [11]
The light hearted fellow gloried in these shining encasements of his well shaped legs, and told Philip that they were a perfect protection against prairie rattle-snakes, which never strike above the knee. [5]
His eyes were far away over the wet prairie. [9]
They had a fair start, but the open prairie was ahead of them, and there was no chance to hide. [11]
On his father's failure and death he had entered the Prairie Bank, at eighteen, and never left it. [9]
Not that they failed to be shocked sometimes, when, on her wild Indian pony, Fleda swept through Manitou like a wind and out into the prairie, riding, as it were, to the end of the world. [11]
Looking with heavy-lidded eyes across the prairie, he saw in the distance the barracks of the Riders of the Plains and the jail near by, and his shuddering ceased. [11]

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