Characteristic landform in Ethiopia, known for being steep-sided, flat-topped mountain, often the site of villages, wells and their surrounding farmland.
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Examples for "mesa "
Examples for "mesa "
1 The view from the mesa is picturesque and imposing in the extreme.
2 A little later the white colony on the mesa was in darkness.
3 The rustlers had made a camp on the mesa until the dawn.
4 Then Spider placed a huge reed upon the top of the mesa .
5 She glanced up occasionally to watch the ponies grazing on the mesa .
1 Tie string or grass round the lady Imba 's finger below the bite.
2 Only the little Chieftainess Imba ought to sleep in this house on the night of full moon.
3 Tota was taking care of the little boy, but little Imba was sitting silent beside the stove.
4 Yet, O Imba , I will say this-thatI believe your law to be higher and better than my law.
5 Think of something else, Teacher, and tell the lady, and the child Imba , and Kosa, and another, what it is you are thinking of.
1 EMBA students have the option of an international study trip as well.
2 The figures include aid as well as the cost of running U.S. embas
3 These are the global business hubs where the 55 executives in this EMBA program meet -but only after two months in a virtual classroom.
1 The rains were late, and water scarce on the amba : the next day it rained.
2 Theodore on this retired to some huts on the amba , about 50 yards from the second gate.
3 The amba is well fortified by nature, and Theodore, to increase its strength, added some rude fortifications.
4 To the right, the sides of the amba rise like a huge wall; below is a giddy abyss.
5 Messengers now went backwards and forwards daily, sometimes twice in the same day, between the camp and the amba .
6 Seventy feet higher up there was a second hedge, and another gate opening on the flat summit of the amba .
7 Many of them had been for years confined on the amba , and had brought their families to reside near them.
8 He soon ignored him entirely, and the unfortunate man had to remain nearly two years, a semi-prisoner, on that amba .
9 The immediate vassals of the king are called amba raja; and for the subjects in general the word rayet has been adopted.
10 The road on nearing Magdala is more abrupt; one or two conical hills have to be crossed before the amba itself is reached.
11 At Islamgee several small villages had been erected by the peasants who cultivate the land for the Emperor, the chiefs, and soldiers of the amba .
12 Swedish-Danish Arla amba , which already owns 51 per cent of the shares, will pay 71 pence a share cash for the remainder.
13 There were also under his sway the islands of Curaçoa, Buenaire and Amba .
14 We discover Amba , triumphant, planting a severed head atop one of the spears.
15 Mr Amba said getting some 200 families resettled would be an even bigger challenge.
16 For a while the communications between the Amba and the camp were again suspended.
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