stray off and open plain
What does 'stray off' and 'open plain' mean in this context
The dwelling-houses were set about haphazard on the tough prairie sod; some of them looked as if they had been moved in overnight, and others as if they were straying off by themselves, headed straight for the open plain.
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The houses were randomly spread out on the prairie. Some of them looked as if somebody had moved them overnight. The others looked like they were aimlessly moving away, walking out into the distance, along these large areas of flat land.
To stray means to wander, to move aimlessly. To stray off assumes there's some place that they would logically be, like a road or a village, so they are straying away from there.
Plains are large areas of land without much vegetation on them. Not a desert because there is grass no sand but with few trees and typically flat, like a prairie. In the US this would typically be the Great Plains, the area between the Rockies and the Mississippi, all the way from Texas up to the Dakotas.
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It's difficult texts for me, but not for you ;)
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Oh Sri! you read difficult texts ;)
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