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steppe

Temperate grasslands of Europe and Asia. The term is sometimes used to refer to other temperate grasslands and semi-arid desert edges.
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How fine it must be galloping over the steppes on a steppe horse
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
In the vast steppe, bathed in sunshine, he could just see, like black specks, the nomads' tents.
Crime And Punishment by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
He could not, any more than a man who has been looking at a tuft of steppe grass through the mist and taking it for a tree can again take it for a tree after he has once recognized it to be a tuft of grass.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
 
 
 
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