pampas

Cold from the spring the waters pass Over the waving pampas grass, All night long in dream I lie, Ah me!

"There's a pirate asleep in the pampas just beneath us," Peter told him.

The breakfast began with three bowls of excellent soup, thanks to the liquefaction in hot water of those precious cakes of Liebig, prepared from the best parts of the ruminants of the Pampas. To the soup succeeded some beefsteaks, compressed by an hydraulic press, as tender and succulent as if brought straight from the kitchen of an English eating-house.

He had been before in drawing-rooms hung with red damask, with pictures "of the Italian school"; what struck him was the way in which Medora Manson's shabby hired house, with its blighted background of pampas grass and Rogers statuettes, had, by a turn of the hand, and the skilful use of a few properties, been transformed into something intimate, "foreign," subtly suggestive of old romantic scenes and sentiments.

We find the "standing stones" of the Celts in Asian Siberia; in the pampas of America.

Next Spanish hides, with the tails still preserving their twist and the angle of elevation they had when the oxen that wore them were careering over the pampas of the Spanish Main -- a type of all obstinacy, and evincing how almost hopeless and incurable are all constitutional vices.

I have not seen anything pulled down so quick since I was on the Pampas and had a mare that I was fond of go to grass all in a night.

The Pampas, located within 28-40[degrees]S and 57-68[degrees]W in Argentina, is a vast plain that covers ~50Mha.