“It could mean the difference between living by the sea or living on a plain in a land-locked area.”

“When the marsh surface is inundated, the water table in the marsh plain is raised, and remains near the surface.”

“Our next day's journey was a drive of six hours, through a tolerable road, and a vast plain of corn.”

“This will grate much upon your spirit, but so it is, and you must excuse my plainness in telling you of it.”

“The clearness and plainness of these doctrines teach us thus to renounce the world.”

“There's a quiet plainness in the way she reads that makes me want to listen.”

“Cody was, as later observers noted, authenticating for future stage audiences the dramatic but heretofore fictional attire of a plainsman.”

“The legacy of Buffalo Bill's fight with Yellow Hair vexed the plainsman in his own day and survives among the myths of the American West.”

“The small plainsman dug around in his pocket for a moment before coming up with a small sheet of parchment.”

“When I told him that many of us who cheer his plainspokenness on the Middle East decried him in the '70s, he laughed.”

“This was more of the plainspokenness that Bell had identified in Corbyn, and in many ways it is admirable.”

“The line falls with far more — or, rather, far less — than the usual laconic Eastwood plainspokenness.”

“It could mean the difference between living by the sea or living on a plain in a land-locked area.”

“When the marsh surface is inundated, the water table in the marsh plain is raised, and remains near the surface.”

“Our next day's journey was a drive of six hours, through a tolerable road, and a vast plain of corn.”

“But on the other hand, these equalitarian plainnesses leave an open field for the insolence of Jack-in-office.”

“Besides being a watershed, a hill area impacts a much larger area in the plains below.”

“There are plenty of shocks and jolts in this journey through ragged plains, rugged mountains, murky organisations and lethal hit men.”

“These fish live in the abyssal plains, flat expanses of the ocean floor at depths of 10,000 to 20,000 feet.”