Soviet forces offered little resistance in the vast empty steppes and started streaming eastward.

Wiping his mouth on his sleeve, he strolled out into the empty steppe.

The scouts return with news only of empty steppe.

The high-latitude summer light barely fades from the sky above a treeless, empty steppe.

Jondalar was equally worried as he scanned the empty steppes.

No roads lead to Jaslyk through the empty steppe and access is by rail only.

On those vast empty steppes they would quickly get lost and perish in the snow.

The city was flung up on an empty steppe in the 1930's, a crash project of Stalin's first five-year plan.

Turning back to the window to watch the endless empty steppe, Stoner soon drifted off to sleep.

Raids were concentrated along the border between the settled area and the empty steppe.