Distant bluffs stood out with sharp distinctness.

She thought the new country was like its inhabitants; they were marked by a certain primitive vigor and their character was clearly defined.

Neither the land nor the people had been tamed by cultivation yet.

One missed the delicate half-tones on the prairie, but one heard and thrilled to the ringing note of endeavor.
When she looked west the land was empty to the horizon, and a flock of big sand-hill cranes planed down the wind.

An animal she thought was an antelope moved swiftly through the waves of rippling grass.