What is "buttes"

Usage examples of "buttes".

Split River and around the tall, flat-topped buttes that dotted this stretch of steppe with brooding, sharp-edged cliffs.

Only when all that business was attended to did he go on out onto the plain and to the tent his aides had set up at the foot of one of the buttes, protected from the wind.

To one coming down Split River Pass toward the cupped, alluvial plain at its foot, the buttes seemed to spread fanwise toward the southern horizon, lines and clusters of level-topped, sheer-sided mountains, all that was left of the great mesa that had lain at the foot of the mountains in time immemorial, now chewed by the river into these obdurate leftovers.

This year it had ramified into a braid of smaller streams on either side of the vastly swollen main river, and Tharius Don looked down from the pass to see the buttes glittering among tinsel ribbons of water in the late sun.

Tents were thickly scattered among the buttes, an agglomeration and tumult of peoples.

There were fliers there, certainly, quite a mob of them on both butte tops, but there were fliers on several of the farther buttes as well, coming and going, all of them staying well away from the edges.

If you will look with your glass, you can see him between those two buttes, high in his wagon, a crown on his head.

He pointed out the buttes, showed the general the message he had received.

The fliers had reached one of the buttes near the pass and dumped the basket on it.

I watched the clouds passing overhead, framed by the towering buttes, and wondered if my legs would ever feel like walking again.

Pravilo ship, and I found that we were in the center of a hastily thrown-together encampment about two hundred meters from the four buttes where Calandra and I had been recaptured.

Nodding to Calandra and Zagorin, he turned and set off toward the gap in the buttes where the cars were parked.

Calandra and I had first camped at the buttes, and as we walked I found myself gazing up at the starry sky, a sharp bitterness swirling within me.

Then Lord Kelsey-Ramos stirred, looking up at the buttes towering above us.

When men reached the area the twin pillars would become known as Rattlesnake Buttes, reassuring beacons in the desert when spotted from afar, dangerous death traps when approached too closely.