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In the days when vast markets would be established for Canadian wheat in Shanghai and Tokio, then these two towns of Manitou and Lebanon on the Sagalac would be like the swivel to the organization of trade of a continent. [11]
Now and then we would hit one of these sunken logs a rattling bang, dead in the center, with a full head of steam, and it would stun the boat as if she had hit a continent. [5]
But by his unwearied narrations he impressed his image in gigantic features on our plastic continent. [4]
I didn't expect to use it until to-night at nine o'clock, when, also for the first time, I am to light the mills by electricity; a thing that's not been attempted yet in any saw-mill on the Continent. [11]
We have yet to learn, it seems, that we can indulge in that pursuit best on our own continent. [4]
He had no thought of resisting it, for the waters of it swept over his soul like the Atlantic over a lost continent. [9]
It may interest the reader to know how they "put horses to" on the continent. [5]
It was altogether the livest-looking street we had seen in any village on the continent. [5]
I had had the idea that the kangaroo was about extinct in Tasmania and well thinned out on the continent. [5]
His love of the history of his country was a mania with him, and he looked forward, on arriving at Pontiac, to being the apostle of French independence on the continent. [11]

Sentences containing continent two or more times

It is not Leviathan that leads the ocean from continent to continent, but the ocean which bears his mighty bulk as it wafts its own bubbles. [6]

More example sentences with the word continent in them

In America this would have been a heavy leathern strap; but, all over the continent it is nothing but a piece of rope the size of your little finger--clothes-line is what it is. [5]
You're the cleverest woman on the continent, but there's a limit to everything. [11]
He made friends with the correspondents, and got Millet's condition reported to England and all over the continent, and America, and everywhere. [5]
We do not wish to attach too much importance to this movement, but rather to suggest to a continent yearning for culture in letters and in speech whether it may not be carried too far. [4]
Hugh deserted his wife and went over to the continent, where he presently died; and by-and-by the Earl of Kent married his relict. [5]
In a little while all interest was taken up in stretching our necks and watching for the "pony-rider"--the fleet messenger who sped across the continent from St. Joe to Sacramento, carrying letters nineteen hundred miles in eight days! [5]
Presently land appeared, which they took to be the continent, and coasted along to the northward a hundred and thirty miles before finding a harbor. [4]
And yet they were in the bustling world, close to the continent, commanding the most important of the navigable seas. [4]
Its mile-breadth of water seemed an ocean to them, in the shadowy twilight, and the vague riband of trees on the further shore, the verge of a continent which surely none but they had ever seen before. [5]
Britain, because she was separated from the continent and protected by her fleet, virtually withdrew from European affairs in the latter part of the nineteenth century, and, as a result, made great strides in democracy. [9]
The other continent was made, you had only to discover it, to uncover it. [4]
His whole soul was in it: "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. [7]
When my mother was gone I turned towards Virginia with longing, for I could not so soon go against her wishes and join the King's army on the Continent, and less desire had I to be a Glasgow merchant. [11]
And yet Columbus was a well-meaning man; and if he did not discover a perfect continent, he found the only one that was left. [4]
Nevertheless, the continent, vaster and more varied than was guessed, is practically undiscovered, untrodden. [4]
This phenomenon made us a little suspicious of the foundations of this island which is already invaded by the jealous ocean, and is anchored to the continent only by the cable. [4]
It extends straight up through the center of the continent like the middle board in a center-table. [5]
Ordinarily when an unsigned poem sweeps across the continent like a tidal wave whose roar and boom and thunder are made up of admiration, delight, and applause, a dozen obscure people rise up and claim the authorship. [5]
I wrote The Trail of the Sword because the early history of the struggles between the French and English and the North American Continent interested me deeply and fascinated my imagination. [11]
I had been told that we did well to see England before going to the Continent, for it would seem small and only pretty afterwards. [4]
It is not to be supposed that the Pilgrims had an adequate conception of the continent, or of the magnitude of their mission on it, or of the nation to come of which they were laying the foundations. [4]
This practice prevails throughout the American continent from Vancouver's Island in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south. [1]
You could imagine those lights the width of a continent away--and that hidden under the intervening darkness were hills, and winding rivers, and weary wastes of plain and desert--and even then the tremendous vista stretched on, and on, and on!--to the fires and far beyond! [5]
On the continent the railway fare on a trunk is about the same it is on a man. [5]
Charlemagne's tavern of the Cote Dorion was known over half a province, and its patrons carried news of it half across a continent. [11]
While wandering about the Continent he arrived at the spot on the Rhine which is now occupied by Sackingen, and proposed to settle there, but the people warned him off. [5]
Aunt Susan brought the bride from the islands, accompanied her across our continent, and had the happiness of witnessing the rapturous meeting between an adoring husband and wife who had never seen each other until that moment. [5]
The inspector touched the bell, handed the description to Alaric, and said: "Have fifty thousand copies of this printed at once and mailed to every detective office and pawnbroker's shop on the continent. [5]
Iron carted across the American continent at luxurious railway rates would be valuable enough to be coined when it arrived. [5]
Therefore I say that we are still to make the continent we have discovered and occupied, and that the scope and quality of our national life are still to be determined. [4]
So was it that King Louis's Versailles had spread its influence a thousand leagues to our youthful continent. [9]
They both agreed that a scamper on the Continent would now be good for him. [11]
At Gibraltar a telegram had come telling of the painful sensation, and the yacht was instantly headed for England; Mrs. Gasgoyne crossing the Continent, Delia preferring to go back with her father--his sympathy was more tender. [11]
During the night subtle electricity had carried the tale over all the wires of the continent and under the sea; and in all villages and towns of the Union, from the. [5]
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. [7]
When we were seven minutes out from the starting-point, we reached an altitude where the scene took a new aspect; an apparently limitless continent of gleaming snow was tilted heavenward before our faces. [5]
He had not seen her for eight months after I left England, as she had been taken to the Continent for her health. [9]
It will then run thus: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all British subjects who were on this continent eighty-one years ago were created equal to all British subjects born and then residing in Great Britain. [7]
Also that other rumor that English nobility acquired an added stench the other day--and had to ship it to India and the continent because there wasn't any more room for it at home? [5]
There is no ride on the continent, of the kind, so full of picturesque beauty and constant surprises as this around the indentations of St. Ann's harbor. [4]
You will say random rocks in the ocean are not what is wanted; let them strike for Acapulco and the solid continent. [5]
The idea of popular sovereignty was floating about several ages before the author of the Nebraska Bill was born--indeed, before Columbus set foot on this continent. [7]
Not even the poorest crops would grow in soil so hostile to life, and those who chose it for a home were compelled to bring even the drinking-water from the continent. [10]
A French Canadian pony used to be considered the most virile and lasting stock on the continent, and it is fair to say that the French Canadians themselves are genuinely hardy, long-lived, virile, and enduring. [11]
He has not played such a role for England and its neighbors as Bismarck has played for Germany and the Continent, but he has been one of the most powerful influences in molding English action. [4]
The case was plain, but it seemed preposterous, nevertheless--as preposterous as trying to knock down a mountain or wipe out a continent. [5]
There is no place in the country to oppose this evil overspreading the continent, which you say yourself is coming. [7]
It is a pity to destroy any pleasing story of the past, and especially to discharge our hard struggle for a foothold on this continent of the few elements of romance. [4]
Domestically he is perhaps the most productive son of the North American continent. [11]
They were lifted out of the life of that continent with sympathy and care, and most of the incidents were those which had come under my own observation. [11]
It ain't an orb; it's a country; it's a continent. [5]
It was Sunday; one is not used to such dreamy Sundays on the continent. [5]
When you see on the continent the well-dressed Englishman come into his ambassador's chapel, and put his face for silent prayer into his smooth-brushed hat, one cannot help feeling how much national pride prays with him, and the religion of a gentleman. [6]
I have been on the continent of Europe for two and a half years. [5]
Now we are off to Brighthelmstone, and thence, so Papa says, to Spa and the Continent until the end of January. [9]
From one end of the continent to the other, I am described as a gorilla, with a sort of human seeming about me--and all to gratify this quill-driving scum of the earth! [5]
The growing responsibilities of taking care of the lonely ladies that came in increasing numbers to Salomon City from the effeter portions of the continent had at length compelled him to give up his congressional career. [9]
That weltering chaos of distracted men whirled and surged backward like a tidal wave which has struck a continent, and the day was ours! [5]
For I could not but feel that the ostentatious and unconcealable prosperity of "the States" over-shadows this part of the continent. [4]
The dingo is not an importation; he was present in great force when the whites first came to the continent. [5]
Perhaps it was not an American structure, although one could find in it all the rare woods and stones of the continent. [4]
Indeed, there was no uninhabited country on the continent which we could acquire, if we except some extreme northern regions which are wholly out of the question. [7]
One of my Members is a Princess of a royal house, another is the daughter of a village book-seller on the continent of Europe. [5]
It is not meet that I should make too disparaging comparisons between humdrum travel on a railway and that royal summer flight across a continent in a stagecoach. [5]
You have dragged me all over the continent, and I didn't suppose there was any way of escaping the rapids. [4]
On the Continent Mary rode in her private carriage, built, as Shelley boasts, "by one of the best makers in Bond Street," yet the good judge makes not even a passing comment on this iniquity. [5]
Would the Constitution, made to meet the needs of the little confederacy of the seaboard, stretch over a Continent and an Empire? [9]
The Pilgrims have made so much noise in the world, and so powerfully affected the continent, that our tourists were surprised to find they had landed in such a quiet place, and that the spirit they have left behind them is one of such tranquillity. [4]
You are a lawyer, a man of affairs, and yet you could guide me over the hidden paths of half a continent. [9]
We sailed at last; and so ended a snail-paced march across the continent, which had lasted forty days. [5]
They not only knew the Continent very well, but they had spent a winter in Egypt, lived a year in India, and seen something of China and much of Japan. [4]
By and by it will be an island, and for aught we know may grow into a continent. [6]
He has written it to all his friends on the Continent, and had he not been in dock with the gout ever since he reached town, he would have told it at the opera, and at a dozen routs and suppers. [9]
I believe that it is peculiarly appropriate that I should be allowed the privilege of joining my voice with the general voice of St. Louis and Missouri in welcoming to the Mississippi Valley and this part of the continent these illustrious visitors from France. [5]
This promising lad is only a faint intimation of what we are all coming to when we fully acquire the freedom of the continent, and come into that expansiveness of feeling and of language which characterizes the Great West. [4]
I suppose there is not really so much difference in people's feelings, whether they live in Bangor or Omaha, but one's nerves can't be expected to stretch across the continent. [6]
This unknown continent is attacked, it is true, in more than one place. [4]
But the stage is at the door; the coach and four horses answer the advertisement of being "second to none on the continent. [4]
One knows, without inquiring, that the twin of that embarrassing letter is forever and ever flying in this and that and the other direction across the continent in the mails, daily, nightly, hourly, unceasingly, unrestingly. [5]
It was American in one way, for we had a most rational sleeping car; also the car was clean and fine and new--nothing about it to suggest the rolling stock of the continent of Europe. [5]
It grew up in New England out of the seed unconsciously planted by the first Pilgrims, was not crushed out by the weight of a thousand years of error spread over the whole continent, and the Revolution was proclaimed and recognized. [6]
Everybody was interested in having it the finest residence on the continent. [4]
On the Continent, in addition to the tribute paid to it by M. Guizot, it was translated into Dutch, into German, and into Russian. [6]
There was an impression that there must be such a thing somewhere on a continent that has everything else. [4]
The first seven hundred miles a level continent, its grassy carpet greener and softer and smoother than any sea and figured with designs fitted to its magnitude--the shadows of the clouds. [5]
And as this huge continent swept along overshadowing the earth, upon its slopes they discerned the twinkling lights of a thousand sleeping villages, and it was as if the constellations were filing in procession through the sky. [5]
Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the insignificant whitewashed streak with the far-reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree-box discouraged. [5]
In 1878-79 he had taken his family to Europe, where they spent their time in traveling over the Continent. [5]
It is the great neutral centre of the Continent, where the fiery enthusiasms of the South and the keen fanaticisms of the North meet at their outer limits, and result in a compound which neither turns litmus red nor turmeric brown. [6]
I learned this from Professor X., of Yale University, whom I met in the steamer on the great lakes when I was crossing the continent to sail across the Pacific. [5]
The life in French Canada was also traditional, and custom was also somewhat tyrannous, but it was part of a great continent in which the expansion of the man and of a people was inevitable. [11]
The continent has four or five governors, and I do not know how many it takes to govern the outlying archipelago; but anyway you will not see them. [5]
The stage establishment for the rest of the journey could hardly be called the finest on the continent. [4]
Thoughtful men must feel that the fate of civilization upon this continent is involved in the issue of our contest. [7]
I would seek explanations from Great Britain and Russia, and send agents into Canada, Mexico, and Central America to rouse a vigorous continental spirit of independence on this continent against European intervention. [7]
It is rare, even in the finest churches on the Continent. [4]
He did not even appear to know that there was a continent here. [4]
This is an encampment on the edge of a continent, the proportions of which are unknown, the form of which is only conjectured. [4]
Then I passed down the continent to Mexico and South America. [11]
My employer was disappointed in the matter of hiring us out to service to the plantations in the far eastern portion of this continent. [5]

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