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Definition of Steppes
1. steppe [n] - See also: steppe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steppes
Literary usage of Steppes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of the Short Story by Alexander Jessup, Henry Seidel Canby (1903)
"He abounds in short tales, episodes clipped as if by the scissors of Atropos.”
An examination of A Lear of the steppes will show wherein it is ..."
2. Influences of Geographic Environment, on the Basis of Ratzel's System of by Ellen Churchill Semple (1911)
"PLAINS, steppes AND DESERTS significant only as a means to secure a far-flung
boundary line. From these low, accessible plains of adequate rainfall. ..."
3. Russia on the Black Sea and Sea of Azof: Being a Narrative of Travels in the by Henry Danby Seymour (1855)
"The following; is the account of the steppes taken from Von Hammer's History of
the Ottoman Empire :—"These steppes are called by Oriental geographers ' the ..."
4. Man and His Work: An Introduction to Human Geography by Andrew John Herbertson (1899)
"LIFE IN THE steppes. The Grass Lands. At a great distance from the sea, as, ...
steppes and Savanas. Two distinct sets of climatic conditions produce these ..."
5. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1816)
"... by Water—Amusements and Dances of tli£ People—Depar- ture—steppes—River ...
from the Army—Distinction between Cossacks of tke steppes and of ..."
6. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1816)
"... by Water—Amusements and Dances of the People—Departure—steppes—River ...
from the Army—Distinction between Cossacks of the steppes and of tlie Don— ..."
7. Views of Nature: Or, Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation by Alexander von Humboldt, Elise C. Otté, Henry George Bohn (1850)
"ON steppes AND DESERTS pp. 1-21. Coast-chain and mountain-valleys of Caracas.
... Retrospective view of the districts which border steppes and deserts. ..."
8. Views of Nature: Or, Contemplations on the Sublime Phenomena of Creation by Alexander von Humboldt, Elise C. Otté, Henry George Bohn (1850)
"... or the sombre shade of the cacoa groves,—his eye rests in the south on steppes,
whose seeming elevations disappear in the distant horizon. ..."
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