On the northern steppes, shaggy beast-men still dwelt in caves, fighting the mammoth.

In addition to these problems, the struggle with the nomads from the northern steppe continued.

He was a tall, willowy man with the hard cast of China's harsh northern steppes imprinted on his face.

They moved quietly and spoke in low voices, and their garments were of an elegance Guyal had not expected to see on the northern steppe.

Among them, four seem to have been mere raids while the last attack could be seen as their re-subjection on the northern steppe.

The boy twisted in his saddle and stared back over the northern steppes.

Some flesh had fallen from his mighty frame, leaving him gaunt as a savage gray wolf of the northern steppes.

As I have already said, khyang is the name given by the Tibetans to the wild horse of their northern steppes.

There was also the threat and revival of Mongol power on the northern steppe which drew court attention away from other matters.

But the northern steppes make poor farmland.