1.   His aspirations had somehow grown beyond the flat prairie horizon, and he went on to the Juilliard School in Manhattan.

2.   It rises out of the flat prairie horizon like a medieval castle, and its streets are lined with fresh, modern buildings and well-kept bits of history.

3.   Later this week, his self-harmed and ever-restless spirit will go at last into the flat prairie country he loved.

4.   The flat prairie land was turned into one subdivision after another.

5.   The very land of Amarillo seems to inspire conformity, with uninterrupted flat prairie of cattle ranches and cotton farms outside the city.

6.   Evacuations spread through little towns up the Red River Valley Tuesday as the flood that left this city a ghost town flowed relentlessly across the flat prairie toward Canada.