11.   Seven of the nine suites overlooked the Sand River, and we were thrilled to have this view with the grassy plain beyond.

12.   There is no more achingly beautiful image of the desert than the long, thin line of Santa Fe railway cars across the dusk of a grassy plain.

13.   They descended into what was then a continent of great grassy plains, teeming with large mammals.

14.   Gregorio Huilcalla longs to travel the shiny black highway that snakes past his one-room adobe hut set on a grassy plain beneath the towering Andes Mountains.

15.   He speculates they were devoured by the large leopard-like cats that roamed the grassy plains in search of food.

16.   Mainly forest dwellers, jaguars are also found in rocky, semidesert areas and on the pampas, the grassy plains of temperate South America.

17.   There are snow-capped peaks, desert sands and grassy plains.