Sentences with phrase «from sweeping plains»

From sweeping plains that stretch into the horizon to vast deserts, huge canyons and tropical beaches, Africa is rich with beauty.

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From afar it had appeared to him, quite small, gliding over the sand, no bigger than the palm of a child's hand — as a pale, fleeting shadow like a wavering flight of quail over the blue sea before sunrise or a cloud of gnats dancing in the sun at evening or a whirlwind of dust at midday sweeping over the plain.

According to the rabbinic cycle of Torah readings, this is when we come down from the great heights of Genesis and Exodus, with their breathtaking perspectives and sweeping visions, and enter the flat and seemingly arid plain of Leviticus.

When W.A. Criswell was born on the wind - swept plains of the Southwest in 1909, the Southern Baptist Convention was beginning to recover from Reconstruction.

But the real rains start in July, as storm after storm churns and sweeps across the open plains, rinsing the dust from the air, before spinning out into the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

DNA samples revealed that a group of nomadic herders, the Yamnaya, swept into Europe from the plains of today's Russia and Ukraine sometime between 5000 and 4800 years ago, bringing their culture and, perhaps, the Proto - Indo - European language with them.

It doesn't cost $ 20 a bag, or come from the wind - swept plains of the Andes, or have a name that sounds more like a scientific classification than something edible.

Hunt down that designer blouse with a sexy back design from your wardrobe and pair it with your plain saree and do nt forgt to pull your into a bun or sweep it to the side.

The train's itinerary spans a vast 4,735 miles or 7,621 km from the capital of Russia, across sweeping tundra's, it touches the rim of the biggest fresh water lake in the world (Lake Baikal that is) and crosses straight through Mongolia, into the green plains of China until it reaches its final destination 7 days later in Beijing.

The biomes range from sweeping grassy plains to marshy woodlands and snow - wrapped mountains.

Their tracings have the plain geometry of Minimalism, the optical density of Agnes Martin, the model of a drawing that makes itself from Jasper Johns, and a sweep all their own.