Puszta

Most people who hear the word puszta think straight away of herds of galloping horses pounding across the landscape in Hungary. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The only touristything we did was to visit the ranch even deeper into the middle of the puszta (plain) where frankly bonkers young men rode five horses at a time round in circles at high speed (see picture above). ❋ Unknown (2009)

The puszta with its oceanic grasses and shimmering reeds at the center of the great Hungarian plain is an inland dry Wash. ❋ TIM DEE (2009)

All I know is how my heart soared out on the Hungarian puszta when I saw my first Great Bustard and how privileged I feel whenever I see a piping plover on the beach at Parker River National Wildlife Refuge during a Saturday plover warden shift. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The major manifestations are the veldts of South Africa, the puszta of Hungary, the pampas of Argentina and Uruguay, the steppes of the former Soviet Union, and the plains and prairies of central North America. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The rallying cry of the wandering musicians of the puszta had some element in it like the cherished tones of the distant bells of his fatherland. ❋ Various (N/A)

The soul of the dead seemed to speak in the voice of the heroic music, recalling to the harassed contestants for liberty the great days of the revolts of the fatherland, the old memories of the struggles against the Turks, the furious charges of the cavaliers across the free puszta, the vast Hungarian plain. ❋ Various (N/A)

Tchereteff's soldiers; and there, in Hungarian soil, close to the spot where the men of her tribe had been shot down, she buried the Tzigana, whose daughter she so thoroughly felt herself to be, that, in breathing the air of the puszta, she seemed to find again in that beloved land something already seen, like a vivid memory of a previous existence. ❋ Various (N/A)

There was an accent of truth in this wild outburst of the Tzigana; and upon the lips of this daughter of the puszta, Hungarian and Russian at once, the cry seemed the very symbol of her exceptional nature. ❋ Various (N/A)

As Marsa watched them, she seemed to perceive in these wanderers of the river, as in a vision, those other wanderers of the Hungarian desert, her ancestors, the Tzigani, camped in the puszta, the boundless plain, crouched down in the long grass beneath the shade of the bushes, and playing their beautiful national airs. ❋ Various (N/A)

All the spirit of the daughters of the puszta, the violent pride of her ❋ Various (N/A)