What's high but flat

Usage examples of mesa.

Down the trail lay the village of Sanly Bowitts, and several miles beyond the village arose the flat-topped hill called the Mesa of Last Resort.

Yet even during the days she began to dread the open areas they sometimes came to, where the wind howled across miles of broken bushless rock and between the occasional butte or mesa.

Direct inspection confirmed that only one side of the mesa was conceivably climbable by human beings.

After the destruction of the Archuleta Mesa medical facilities, the barons were left without access to the ectogenesis techniques of fetal development outside the womb.

Recupero ahora una suerte de larga mesa operatoria, muy alta, en forma de U, con hoyos circulares en los extremos.

Via Egnatia to dive ten miles inland on the plain of the Ganga River, above which stood the old town of Philippi on its rocky mesa.

PLANET UTAPAU - ROCK MESA The little Artoo stumbles over several boulders as he strug- gles to reach the crest of a rocky MESA.

They went up into the mountains a week later with the mozo and two of the vaqueros and after the vaqueros had turned in in their blankets he and Rawlins sat by the fire on the rim of the mesa drinking coffee.

Finally, at the base, where walls sheered up toward the mesa and the strata of sandstone met a strata of slate, natural seep springs nourished the grander ponderosa pines.

He looked back down the street and across the baked land of New Mexico toward the maze of mesas and arroyos that concealed the rancheria of the Mescalero.

Spellbinder, Soliloquy, Atlas, Logjam, Caribou, Ludwig, Samba, Mambo, Rhumba, Chatterley, Vladimir, Lava, Bliss, Torquemada, Flint, Devil-May-Care, Whitewater, Winter Morning, Vernal, Equinox, Mesa, Calliope, Grandstand, Olivia!

Birds were coming down out of the half darkness upcountry and shearing away off the edge of the mesa and to the north the lightning stood along the rimlands like burning mandrake.

His little single-width mobile home was located on the east edge of Laguna Seca Mesa, and Desboti was standing in its door.

The abbot leaned against the parapet to listen while he watched the buzzards circling over the mesa of Last Resort.

He watched the dust speck until it passed through the village of Sanly Bowitts and departed again by way of the road leading past the mesa.