The moderate slopes and elevations of the urals scarcely break this vast plain which covers so large a share of the globe.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
To the south-east were the dense masses of the allied Grand Army drawn from all the lands between the Alps and the urals; and among Bennigsen's array on the east of Leipzig were to be seen the Bashkirs of Siberia, whose bows and arrows gained them from the French soldiery the sobriquet of les Amours.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose
But beyond the urals we are once more lost in the desolate plains across which the train crawls softly and silently at the rate of about ten miles an hour.
"From Paris to New York by Land"
Harry de Windt