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    1. They were all to meet at a large plateau along a mountain range in Idaho


    2. ' He clucked at the goats and they followed him onto the plateau


    3. When at last I caught up with the others, they were on the lip of a wide plateau of sandy rock and there, emerging from the wiry scrub, stood a tidy cluster of stubborn ruins and dry stone walls that seemed determined to stand forever


    4. grassy plateau sheltered by a few gnarled and windswept trees


    5. It’s on some kind of plateau


    6. The Jeep stopped atop a large dune, a plateau of sand that was still solid enough to


    7. A thousand miles beyond Trenst is an area of rolling highlands called the Kendre Plateau


    8. On the southern edge of this plateau, overlooking the Karedarzin lowlands and the river itself, far in the distance, there is a series of lofty cliffs stretching irregularly for hundreds of miles


    9. In a vision I saw a plateau


    10. On the plateau there were many

    11. people walking around, and in the center of the plateau was


    12. Some people were in the center of the plateau


    13. Then there was an earthquake and the plateau began to shake


    14. The edge of the plateau began to crumble, and those near the


    15. plateau was the Church and that a shaking is coming to the


    16. plateau overlooking the complex), and was inspired by the


    17. onto the Galician plateau


    18. So named because early explorers having braved the tempests of the plateau and thus sated their appetite for all further adventuring, by the time they reached the coast they sat still awhile, before whispering into their cups a single word


    19. How Misty Plateau got its name no one in Dort could fathom out


    20. "Its not the twelve I'm worried about, its the thirteenth one that gives me grave cause for concern" Miss Pringle glared forbiddingly, "Granny always said the Plateau had many moods and not to take them lightly, keep to the road and all will be well she used to tell us when we did geography

    21. Now and then he would stop and give a short lecture on the various shrubs and grasses, everyone knew he'd never seen them before and even his nature book seemed at odds with the plateau flora and fauna


    22. "Thank you for saying yes, I can see why you love the plateau so much, it’s so wild and unspoiled


    23. Dingle start from the plateau and arrive back without a single turn


    24. I heard Fizzicist say that the new road is called 'Motorway' and it will open the Plateau up to housing and a new city


    25. The tarmac which had rolled down from the Misty Plateau all those months ago had vanished


    26. Dingle had been called away by Grandpa to survey some goings on in Frica but on his return some weeks later came face to face with one of the silver tubes, at the time it was streaking some thousands of meters above the plateau


    27. You’ve reached a plateau – at the gym


    28. They were standing in a large plateau about a quarter of the way up the mountain’s side


    29. It is indeed a beautiful time for rejuvenation, as the vibration of the Earth has been raised to a new plateau through the collective efforts of humankind


    30. It seemed they were in fact climbing through the myriad of cracks in a rocky plateau

    31. The plateau was gradually lifting up towards the rocky ridge with the chunk missing


    32. Sebastian chuckled and met Rogan’s eye as they climbed the next plateau


    33. I’ve emphasized over and over again for years that in order to continue getting great results, you must continuously change up at least one of the variables, whether it’s volume, intensity, load, frequency or something else, in order to avoid a plateau that will frustrate you and slow your progress


    34. The enemy, neglecting to attack either force separately, held a position on a plateau where the trail and road converged


    35. Beyond was an intervening valley, with a gradual ascent leading up to the plateau on which the city stands


    36. Brubaker described how the river came down out of the plateau of south-central Ontario, curving back to the northwest; collecting behind the dunes at Le Gran Binge in a series of meandering bayous, before finding its way to Lake Kandechio


    37. After his brief inner contemplation, Hilderich stepped on the flattened plateau of rock


    38. It has nurtured the city-state of Ur, in the south-central part, “the land between the rivers” and many of the successor civilizations including Babylon and Assyrian Nineveh, which arose at the base of the northern plateau and in the uppermost portion of this long plain


    39. The headwaters of that river lay just south of the mountain chain that separates the eastern Anatolian Plateau from the narrow strip of land that borders on the south shore of the Black Sea


    40. That plateau and lands to the west of it was the homeland of the Hittite Empire

    41. Those attacks forced them, sometime before the end, to move their capital city to the southern part of the Anatolian Plateau near the shore of the northeastern Mediterranean


    42. The mosquito-like three-seater plane rose up out of the bowl of mountains encircling Windhoek and I saw that the oasis we lived in was a plateau, high above the surrounding desert


    43. It is a holdover from the four years of famine on the high plateau


    44. Once I reached the high plateau and Texcalla, I expected something different, but instead it seemed that Otomi ran most of the yams


    45. I had bypassed all the cities of the plateau and arrived at a yam just east of the pass between the two volcanoes that would take me to Anahuac


    46. I asked if he was the only yam keeper on the plateau who was not an Otomi


    47. “Why is that, Tetl? Why don’t the Otomi revolt and drive all the interlopers out of their plateau?”


    48. We should discreetly recruit like-minded patriots from among all the people of the plateau


    49. Living mostly in tiny scattered settlements on the plateau about the lake and on islands in the lake was a small tribe with a totally incomprehensible language that had been named after the lake by the Inka


    50. They were a mostly agricultural people, living in densely populated towns and cities in the river valleys south of the Cincay Qoca Plateau














































    1. stairs plateaued in front of a rounded door with black metal hinges stabbing across the wood panels


    1. What is important about the pattern is that it shows that the uptrend has stalled, and some plateauing or stability has finally arrived


    1. All of the land that any of them had purchased with their bits of metal was well into the rural land, the only small holds were right along the brooks out here, the land they discussed was high on the plateaus between


    2. barring holidays, sickness and those barren plateaus


    3. The only downside was Cupid didn’t dare fly out over the plateaus next to the dunes in such weather, so they continued forward on foot, looking for signs of demon activity


    4. The main reason for this is that the majority of bodybuilders automatically approach plateaus and neuromuscular


    5. Stairways leading to houses, plateaus, terraces, and balconies


    6. Plateaus are useless, burning up inside of something, falling through the earth, metamorphosis, it’s how you come back out


    7. Decline bench press may be alternated with bench press when you hit plateaus on your routine


    8. It is a continuously evolving process of reaching higher and higher energy plateaus so


    9. We walked a hard road, over chasms and hills and plateaus, and it would require another story to detail its progress here


    10. Yeah well, since then, I've hit some plateaus and valleys and low points and sometimes it

    11. Up to 60 feet tall, and 10 feet wide, where else could they find enough elbow room for elbows that were bigger than human heads? I learned from my Hopi friends, that their village or whatever was not more than 100 miles east of Third Mesa, the easternmost of the three high plateaus that were all the Navajo and the US government had left to the Hopi of their once limitless lands


    12. Up until this point they’ve been driving on a steady incline up the mountainside, but before her the ground plateaus


    13. In order to defeat plateaus and


    14. this shorter workout helps with systemic recovery, helps overcome plateaus, and hits small


    15. It stretches for miles along the coast, and is full of paths and roads that lead you to unexpected lovelinesses--sudden glimpses of the sea between huge beech trunks on grassy plateaus; deep ravines, their sides clothed with moss, with water trickling down over green stones to the sea out in the sun at the bottom; silent glades of bracken, silvery in the afternoon light, where fallow deer examine you for one brief moment of curiosity before they spring away, panic-stricken, into the deeper shadows of the beeches


    16. We did not hurry, but lingered over each beauty, resting on little sunny plateaus high up on the very edge of the cliffs, where, sitting on the hot sweet grass, we saw the colour of the sea shine through the colour of the fringing scabious--a divine meeting of colours often to be seen along the Rügen coast in July; or, in the deep shade at the bottom of a ravine, we rested on the moss by water trickling down over slimy green stones to the sea which looked, from those dark places, like a great wall of light


    17. "Yeah," Doug said, "there looked to be a lot of plateaus and maybe even caves or things on the mountains on the other side


    18. and also narrow gullies and ravines, along with rises and small plateaus, so that the


    19. As hard as I tried to produce extra heat and shelter from the chill wind that blew across these high plateaus at night, I couldn’t manage to get Susori warm enough to stop shaking


    20. In it, she was speaking to Daemionis and walking along one of the dark plateaus that filled the Valley of the Dead in Paramide

    21. It is far more common for students of any high-level skill to find that their progress comes in a series of jumps interspersed with long, flat plateaus


    22. The reason for the sudden spurts of progress is the hard work done on the plateaus, but it can be difficult to keep up very hard work for seemingly no reward


    23. As opposed to this, optimal areas of the transformed optimization space represent fairly smooth and wide plateaus of average height, which might be preferable from the robustness point of view


    24. What many money management systems fail to acknowledge is that as traders inch up the ladder of profitability, they frequently hit mental plateaus


    25. Maybe a trader can start with a $25,000 account and run it up to $40,000, but then, instead of climbing still further and taking the account to the next level, the trader plateaus, and things begin to fall apart


    26. Plateaus can easily turn into very real stumbling blocks


    27. I’ve struggled with this problem myself over the course of my trading life, although my plateaus have grown over time


    28. Down from Flagstaff over the great plateaus, and the road disappeared in the distance ahead


    29. Between the mountain-peaks, as may be imagined, there is little room for fertile plateaus, and the most settled districts in consequence are those farthest away from the towering ranges; of these Selangor is, perhaps, the most noteworthy


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    Synonyms for "plateau"

    plateau tableland level expanse plain mesa

    "plateau" definitions

    a relatively flat highland