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"Mesa" Quotes from Famous Books

... out over the vast stretch of mesa as if she were living through those early days herself, instead of being carried along by a high-powered car that ate up the ...

— The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure • Lizette M. Edholm

... late. I walked and walked the platform; some of the people who were waiting went away, but I dared not leave my post. I fell to watching a spurt of dust away off across the river toward the mesa. It rolled up fast, and presently I saw a man on horseback; then I didn't see him; then he had crossed the bridge and was pounding down the track-side toward the depot. He pulled up and spoke to a trainman, and after that he walked his horse as ...

— A Touch Of Sun And Other Stories • Mary Hallock Foote

... road leads up the river for a short distance, when it turns into an arroyo, and ascends to a low mesa, and continues along the border of a level prairie covered with fine bunch-grass. It then enters the river bottom again, which is here several miles wide, and well wooded. ...

— The Prairie Traveler - A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions • Randolph Marcy

... gorge, flowing swift and turbulent during the spring months, shallow and murmurous the rest of the year, to pass through a basin formed by low mountains and break forth at last from a canyon and wind away over the mesa. In the canyon was being erected the huge reservoir dam which was in the future to store water for irrigating the broad acres ...

— In the Shadow of the Hills • George C. Shedd

... had rolled across the mesa or tableland below Pueblo. Hal and Noll, seated in one of the two day coaches of the train, had studied the mesa with longing eyes. Here they caught occasional glimpses of cowboys on ponies, for this mesa is still a favorite ...

— Uncle Sam's Boys in the Ranks - or, Two Recruits in the United States Army • H. Irving Hancock

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