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  • Tundra swan and Canada geese literally surrounded them.†   (source)
  • North Bressia held desert, high tundra, and six major cities housing mostly burr-root harvesters and petroleum engineers.†   (source)
  • If she'd grown up in the Siberian tundra, born blind to shepherds, she still would have arrived here, now.†   (source)
  • "—as if my mother were some ancient peasant tribeswoman arriving from the tundra with an armful of raw yak meat and some buttons for bartering, trying to get something from Amy that wasn't on offer.†   (source)
  • Marvin did not think these men were interested in photos of wolf packs on the tundra at sunset.†   (source)
  • The furry rodents rode atop a giant pile of stuff in the back of Allan's white Toyota Tundra for the four-hour drive from Phoenix to Magdalena.†   (source)
  • Bitter tundra that stretched in all directions, ice floes drifting out on the black waters of the Arctic sea, snow-capped mountains, and cities carved out of ice whose towers sparkled like the demon towers of Alicante.†   (source)
  • Outdoorsmen pay thousands of dollars to experience the Alaska tundra, but for most of my childhood all I had to do was walk outside my door.†   (source)
  • Whenever a cloud blocked out the warming rays, though, Regis was reminded that it was September on the tundra.†   (source)
  • Here's a perfect example: I owned a Toyota Tundra truck for a while, and I got tired of driving around with my headlights on all the time.†   (source)
  • When the ice melted, sandy riverbeds were deposited on the land below, where they now provide almost the sole visual relief in the bleak monotony of the tundra plains.†   (source)
  • Eighty miles from the Bering Sea and with temperatures of fifty below zero, I still found Bethel preferable to Ketchikan because at least the frozen tundra had blue sky and miles of visibility in all directions.†   (source)
  • The plants, scrubs, bushes, trees—all the vegetation was exactly like the Canadian tundra.†   (source)
  • Each day Zeke would launch me, his every breath a short, swift cloud; his hands blue and copiously veined, his face as gaunt and weary as a tundra, his voice the only voice in a village unawakened.†   (source)
  • Virgin continents, raw wildernesses, fecund jungles, killing deserts, frozen tundras, and implacable mountains lay just beyond the city gates, and the human race was again going out where the street lights do not shine, out where there was no friendly cop on the corner nor indeed a corner, out where there were no well-hung, tender steaks, no boneless hams, no packaged, processed foods suitable for delicate minds and pampered bodies.†   (source)
  • Powell interviewed Graham in the foyer of the auction room, before a crystal port overlooking the arctic tundra of Ganymede with the belted red-brown bulk of Jupiter filling the black sky.†   (source)
  • The most graceful were the tail feathers from a tundra swan.   (source)
    tundra = related to a treeless plain where the subsoil is always frozen
  • We have the same flow across the tundra and I know then we will finish.†   (source)
  • The weeks which we spent cruising the tundra plains were idyllic.†   (source)
  • In every direction the tundra rolled on, flat and earthen.†   (source)
  • "You once told me that those words were an old tundra battle cry," he remarked to the barbarian.†   (source)
  • Sure enough, a Norseman plane on floats was lazily circling over the tundra to the west of us.†   (source)
  • Flocks of Old Squaw ducks, almost ready to be off for distant places, swirled in the tundra ponds.†   (source)
  • And tell me again who it is that commands the tribes of the tundra.†   (source)
  • No living man on all the tundra had claim to such a lofty title.†   (source)
  • Cassius will lead the people down the western slopes to the open tundra.†   (source)
  • "In the shelter of the mines, I had forgotton how cruel the tundra wind could be!" laughed Wulfgar.†   (source)
  • Warriors of every tribe on the tundra had come to Evermelt with the same hopes as he.†   (source)
  • Drizzt moved beside him and stared out over the tundra.†   (source)
  • "From a friend who often travels the tundra," he answered honestly.†   (source)
  • My people know the tundra better than even the yetis.†   (source)
  • Akar Kessell commands the tribes of the tundra!†   (source)
  • Bruenor's as hard as mountain stone, and there is nothing on the tundra that can stop him.†   (source)
  • The Coming Storm They started at dawn, charging across the tundra like an angry whirlwind.†   (source)
  • He remembered his own battle with tundra yetis nearly five years before.†   (source)
  • Revjak speaks for the men, of the tundra now.†   (source)
  • And far out on the open tundra, the second did likewise.†   (source)
  • The giant was making for Daledrop and the open tundra beyond.†   (source)
  • Ye've a spirit as wild as the tundra," Bruenor said, smiling.†   (source)
  • After a time it seems the team isn't moving, that the country, the tundra, the endless grass and shallow snow are rolling by beneath us and we are standing still—so unchanging is the country.†   (source)
  • Santos posted her schedule each day, and by the second week, when she was meeting with a group of lobbyists wanting to drill in the Alaskan tundra, there were millions watching her.†   (source)
  • Two years out of England, winter overtook his small party as they plodded across an expanse of tundra so vast and empty that they christened it the Barrens, the name by which it is still known.†   (source)
  • From Harbor Bay west to the Lakelands, the northern tundra to the radiated wastes of the Ruins and the Wash, it's all dangerous land for us.†   (source)
  • No trees, only tundra and the long low hills and the jingle of the dogs' collars and the whuffing of their breath as they trot and we cover the miles, the long miles across the interior over to the Yukon River.†   (source)
  • Froze to death up on the tundra.†   (source)
  • Walking this gnarled shore one summer afternoon, I blundered upon a matrix of faint stone rectangles embedded in the tundra: vestiges of the monks' ancient dwellings, hundreds of years older, even, than the Anasazi ruins in Davis Gulch.†   (source)
  • It feels more malevolent than other, more remote corners of the state I know, the tundra-wrapped slopes of the Brooks Range, the cloud forests of the Alexander Archipelago, even the frozen, gale-swept heights of the Denali massif.†   (source)
  • 8-degree rise in temperature over the last one hundred years, which foretold Sahara-like consequences throughout the United States, or (b) how global warming might cause the next ice age and turn the United States into an icy tundra.†   (source)
  • Go to the desert or tundra and wait for the visionary flash of light, the critical mass that will call down the Hindu heavens, Kali and Shiva and all the grimacing lesser gods.†   (source)
  • Although I was only in Bethel for a month, the stories I heard while I was there, stories about the tundra and the Yupik people, left a powerful impression on me, and the stories I heard there refused to let me get back to work on Ceremony until I wrote a short story about the place and people of the Bethel area.†   (source)
  • Not only had they received no wolf reports, but some four thousand dollars' worth of Government equipment had vanished into the tundra void.†   (source)
  • The following day Ootek and I loaded a camping outfit aboard the canoe, and set out on a prolonged cruise through the tundra plains to the northward.†   (source)
  • He had been trying for weeks to persuade her to join him on the night-long ranging across the tundra.†   (source)
  • BY MID-SEPTEMBER the tundra plains burned somberly in the subdued glow of russet and umber where the early frosts had touched the ground cover of low shrubbery.†   (source)
  • During late October, when winter begins to savage the bleak plains, the caribou turn their backs on the tundra and begin working their way down into the alien but sheltered world of forests.†   (source)
  • As they reached the level tundra they broke into a trot, following one another in line, not hurrying, but trotting easily through the groups of caribou.†   (source)
  • "Ask him then," I told Mike, "how come there are so many skeletons of big and evidently healthy caribou scattered around the cabin and all over the tundra for miles to the north of here."†   (source)
  • The annual spring caribou migration north from the forested areas of Manitoba toward the distant tundra plains near Dubawnt Lake was under way, and from my canoe I could see countless skeins of caribou crisscrossing the muskegs and the rolling hills in all directions.†   (source)
  • The circle rose like a fleeing partridge, glittered brilliantly in the sunshine as it reached the top of its trajectory, sailed gracefully out over a nearby tundra pond and, with barely a splash, sliced into the water and disappeared forever.†   (source)
  • When I still looked dense he gave me an exasperated glance and, without so much as a by-your-leave, headed off across the tundra in a direction which would have taken him to the northwest of Mike's cabin.†   (source)
  • As z LOOKED about me at the stark and cloud-topped hills, the waste of pressure-rippled ice, and, beyond the valley, to the desolate and treeless roll of tundra, I had no doubt that this was excellent wolf country.†   (source)
  • If one then took into account the fact that about a third of the tundra plains lay under water, while another third consisted of barren rock hills and ridges where neither caribou, wolf nor most other beasts could make a living, the density rose to one wolf for every two square miles, approximately.†   (source)
  • I was not surprised at his anxiety to kill a deer, for I had learned one truth by now, that he, as well as every other human being on the Barrens, was a meat eater who lived almost exclusively on caribou when they were available; but I was amazed that he should be willing to make a two— or three-day hike over the tundra on evidence as wild as that which Ootek offered.†   (source)
  • Though he had set the trap nearly a century before, he knew that the poison of the Tundra Widowmaker snake had kept its deadly sting.†   (source)
  • I didn't take 'im under me eye for five years just to let him get cut down by a stinkin' tundra yeti!†   (source)
  • The dwarf was well above the tundra floor and the lowest of the countless stars that sparkled the night.†   (source)
  • King Heafstaag was his primary rival on the tundra, commanding a force as dedicated, disciplined, and numerous as his own.†   (source)
  • The huge, one-eyed king himself led the procession, his great, swinging strides indicative of the nomads of the tundra.†   (source)
  • This band of verbeeg, though, headed south toward the settlements, rather than north to the open tundra.†   (source)
  • "The tribes of the tundra do not fight in a common cause with goblins and giants!" he decreed to rousing shouts of approval.†   (source)
  • He longed for the freedom of the open tundra, where he could stretch his arms up high to the warmth of the sun or to the intangible pull of the moon.†   (source)
  • Catti-brie was beyond his experience, a young woman who did not fit the role as it had been defined to him on the tundra.†   (source)
  • It's sure to be a sorry day when a drow — and a ranger, what's more-gets taken off 'is guard on an open plain by two scab tundra yetis!†   (source)
  • The winner would hold no formal authority over them, but he would be the king of the most powerful and dominant tribe on the tundra.†   (source)
  • All of his other supplies, backpack, rope, waterskins, and other basic items of everyday survival on the harsh tundra, he had left in the small cubby.†   (source)
  • The countless stars shone clearly over the tundra, making the open plain seem even more vast and empty.†   (source)
  • As dusk began to settle over the tundra, Drizzt, in the comfortable shadows deeper in the cave, stirred from his short nap.†   (source)
  • He let his voice trail away, and he looked back longingly to the emptiness of the open tundra beyond Kelvin's Cairn.†   (source)
  • Bruenor himself, for all of his assumptions of this barbarian's character, could not have foreseen that this boy, Wulfgar, would grow into the man who would reshape this harsh region of the tundra.†   (source)
  • The caves north of Ten-Towns, always a stop-over for the nomadic barbarians on their way back to the tundra, had not even been stocked to reprovision the tribes on their long trek.†   (source)
  • But a cornered dwarf is pound for pound as tough as anything in the world, and these were of the clan from Mithril hall who had been waging battles on the merciless tundra for all of their lives.†   (source)
  • There was only one pass that afforded easy access down into the rocky valley: Daledrop, up on the level of the tundra yet below the southern slopes of the mountain.†   (source)
  • The frozen ground cracked beneath the stamp of their heavy boots, and the murmur of the endless tundra wind was buried under the strength of their song, the song to the God of Battle.†   (source)
  • Its proud pennant flew high from the top of a hill in the middle of the dry tundra between the three lakes, just south of the southern tip of the dwarven valley.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar turned back to the tundra.†   (source)
  • The barbarians of Icewind Dale stood a full head and more above the average inhabitant of Ten-Towns, sprouting as though to take advantage of the wide and roomy expanses of empty tundra.†   (source)
  • But those who survived the initial assault, women and children and tundra-toughened men alike, who had faced death a thousand times and more, did scream.†   (source)
  • The King of the Tribe of the Elk had seen more battles than any man on the tundra, and by all appearances he was ready and anxious to fight in many more.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar was beginning to tire as well, so he started to sing an old tundra war song, the Song of Tempos, its rousing notes inspiring him into one final barrage.†   (source)
  • His people were meant to live in the wide expanses of the open tundra, and he was relieved to be out of the stifling closeness of the dwarven-made caverns.†   (source)
  • Even on the few days that the wind shifted there was little relief, for Ten-Towns was bordered on-the north and west by miles of empty tundra and then more ice, the Sea of Moving Ice.†   (source)
  • Anxious to begin the adventure, they made good time and were far out into the tundra when the first rays of the sun peeked over the eastern horizon behind them.†   (source)
  • He could hardly believe that these proud tundra warriors, who vividly remembered the slaughter they had suffered at the hands of Ten-Towns, had come to the aid of the fishing communities.†   (source)
  • If he had paused to study his surroundings or put one of his sensitive ears to the ground, he might have heard the distant rumble from the open tundra to the north of yet another approaching army.†   (source)
  • Far out on the tundra, a lone wolf sat as still as a statue, anxious but patient as the silver disk of the huge summer moon broke the flat rim of the horizon.†   (source)
  • The tundra was doubly harsh in the frozen winter, and Wulfgar often considered the possibility that the sudden loss of so many warriors — some of the tribes had lost every one of their menfolk — would doom the remaining people to slow death.†   (source)
  • The humans and dwarves looked upon the mass of invaders with returning hope, for on all the outer fringes of the vast force dark shapes continued to break away and flee from the battlefield and back to the tundra.†   (source)
  • He often escorted and protected the halfling through the dangerous first legs of the journey from Lonelywood, around the open tundra north of Maer Dualdon and down toward Bryn Shander, when Regis went to the principle city for business or council meetings.†   (source)
  • Far below, down a deep gorge and moving northward, back toward the tundra and the trails that would take them around the foreboding range of impassable mountains, Kessell saw the black specks that marked the wizards' caravan beginning its long journey back to Luskan.†   (source)
  • The Mead Hall Many miles north of Ten-Towns, across the trackless tundra to the northernmost edge of land in all the Realms, the frosts of winter had already hardened the ground in a white-tipped glaze.†   (source)
  • They dominate the plain now, and though more years will have to pass before the people of the tundra regain the strength they held before the battle, the younger warriors are already coming into manhood.†   (source)
  • Their selfish love of their treasure can sustain them indefinitely, and Icingdeath's hoard, though small compared to the vast mounds of gold collected by the huge reds and blues that lived in more populated areas, was the largest of any of the tundra-dwelling dragons.†   (source)
  • To his worst horror and disgrace, the giant king realized that every one of his warriors would die on this field if they didn't find a way to escape the ring of enemies and flee back to the safety of the tundra.†   (source)
  • This was a seldom traveled portion of the dwarven valley, the northern end, with Bremen's Run widening out into the open tundra around the western side of the mountain, and Icewind Pass doing likewise on the east.†   (source)
  • He kept the cowl of his brown cloak pulled low over the flowing waves of his stark white hair and moved with such effortless grace that an onlooker might have thought him to be no more than an illusion, an optical trick of the brown sea of tundra.†   (source)
  • When the drow gained the blackness of the open tundra, he turned south toward Kelvin's Cairn and sped off across the lonely plain in full flight, all the while concentrating on finalizing a deadly counter-plan of defense.†   (source)
  • Yet even considering his disadvantage under daytime conditions, Drizzt was outraged by his own carelessness when the two bearlike tundra yetis, their camouflaging coats of shaggy fur still colored in summer brown, suddenly rose up before him.†   (source)
  • Icewind Dale, a thousand square miles of barren, broken tundra, had been described to them as one of the most unwelcoming lands in all the Realms, and within a single day of traveling on the northern side of the Spine of the World, Eldeluc, Dendybar the Mottled, and the other wizards from Luskan considered the reputation well-earned.†   (source)
  • I saw Piedmont once, very briefly, and he conveyed the warmth and glowing good humor of a tundra during our fifteen-minute conversation.†   (source)
  • A black tundra.†   (source)
  • I think tundra grass, will do, after all.†   (source)
  • "I think the tundra grass will make just as good a roof," she said.†   (source)
  • "Let us gather tundra grass and thatch the roof," Maud said.†   (source)
  • Tundra grass was impracticable.†   (source)
  • With the exception of our little cove, the other beaches sloped gently back for a distance of half-a-mile or so, into what I might call rocky meadows, with here and there patches of moss and tundra grass.†   (source)
  • Nine men out of ten would flee from a Royal Society soiree in extremity of boredom; but Creighton was the tenth, and at times his soul yearned for the crowded rooms in easy London where silver-haired, bald-headed gentlemen who know nothing of the Army move among spectroscopic experiments, the lesser plants of the frozen tundras, electric flight-measuring machines, and apparatus for slicing into fractional millimetres the left eye of the female mosquito.†   (source)
  • Taunting us mercilessly and without cease, Devin painted the tundra red with our blood.†   (source)
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