Malpais

Word MALPAIS
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Hyphenation mal pais
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The word "malpais" in example sentences

The site sits on a landform called malpais, a young, rugged volcanic landscape "that looks like gravel dumped into a big pile," he said. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I did describe our search through the malpais with the two feds. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

Plain to see, each would guide a party around some predetermined section of the malpais. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

We landed in a gaunt part of the malpais, beyond sight of anything human, and got off. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

It cast pallor and long shadows across the malpais. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

Do you suppose an invalid would traipse around the malpais after dark? ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1999)

The night before, in the little cave where he rested, he had seen a snake, though it was much too cold for snakes to be moving about; worse, late in the night, he had heard the call of an owl, though he was far out on the malpais, where no owls flew. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1995)

He knew the large woman must be a witch, for only a witch would be traveling through the malpais with so many men. ❋ Larry McMurtry (1995)

Parts of our Arizona range were covered with great beds of broken malpais rock, really black lava, hard as iron, with edges sharp and jagged. ❋ Thomas Carson (N/A)

A low range of black malpais buttes stretched between him and the man he had despoiled, and as yet the direction of his flight could not be observed. ❋ Unknown (1918)

As the advance guard of dawn emerged from behind the serrated peaks to the east and paused on their snow-encrusted summits before charging down the slopes into the open desert to rout the lingering shadows of the night, a coyote came out of his den in the tumbled _malpais_ at the foot of the range, pointed his nose skyward and voiced his matutinal salute to the Hosts of Light. ❋ Unknown (1918)

Into water-gutted arroyos they descended, slid down breakneck shale ridges, climbed like heather cats the banks of dry washes, pounded over white porous _malpais_ on which no vegetation grew. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

Tell him to send his posse across the _malpais_ toward the rim-rock. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

Sometimes we dodged in and out among the mesquite bushes, alternately separating and coming together again; sometimes we swept over grassy plains apparently of illimitable extent, sometimes we skipped and hopped and buck-jumped through and over little gullies, barrancas, and other sorts of malpais -- but always without drawing rein. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

From it one looked down into the deep gorge of the Southern Guaso Nyero, and across to a tangle of eroded mountains and malpais that filled the eye. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

He judged grades, rushed them, conquered them, sometimes at a crawl, slid and skipped and jumped down slopes, negotiated curves on two wheels and brought them triumphantly through White Cliff Cañon, over the malpais belt, up and across a mesa and so to the far brink of it an hour before dawn without puncture, without a broken leaf in the springs, with shock absorbers still on duty and the cylinders performing full service. ❋ Unknown (1906)

This wonderful highland is a malpais or lava formation and densely covered with a forest of stately pines and mountain juniper. ❋ Unknown (1893)

After the road from old Camp Verde to Flagstaff passes a deserted cabin at Beaver Head, it winds up a steep hill of lava or malpais to the top of the Mogollones. ❋ Jesse Walter Fewkes (1890)

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