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1. More shops, specialising in continent specific sales, are to follow
2. Didn't make any difference mentioning which battlefield, which country, which continent her dad had served in
3. It is the triumph of humanity to have hope, and here, across a continent, sitting on a plain wooden chair in rare daylight, I heard a new word: ‘over’
4. He fully understood that the wildlife in different areas of this planet differed from that of this area more than the wildlife of Brasil differed from any other continent on Earth including Antarctica
5. Some forty paintings were shown on the first list, along with a good dozen sculptures … she recognised some of the names of the artists … how had he got hold of a Rembrandt? Could it be original? The second list was longer, more varied and definitely more curious – intaglio tables from the Italian peninsula rubbed shoulders with tribal masks from the African continent and animal skins from places as far afield as Asia
6. ‘Yes, there’s the three here in the Med, one somewhere in the Rhone valley in France, four in the north American continent, a handful in Russia, two or three in the Germany/Poland/Austria regions, the three which we have in the British Isles and goodness only knows how many in the Oriental areas … they’ve never admitted to more than two up to now
7. this county, this country, this continent,
8. They are aware of the locations of all the hatching grounds on this continent
9. They will be the leaders of a new family on the other continent
10. Very few on Aura knew that there was a small colony of Scathers in an encampment on the Northern Continent
11. Naria set up an encampment on the Northern continent and gave the first Scather residents, about 10 young boys, enough supplies and equipment for them to hack-out an encampment for themselves
12. Tyu explained to him that she could hardly believe her ears when Naria told her of the Camp on the Northern continent
13. Naria chuckled, “On the northern continent no; but on the southern continent, we have no problem
14. The next day, she was lead to a stables and lead to believe they had one more day to travel into the interior of this island or continent, whichever it was
15. It was big enough to be a continent, from what she had seen from that tiny boat
16. “I am aware, Lady Tara, that you had knowledge of my ‘guests’ on the southern continent
17. had bought into the cooperative and established an American headquarters of sorts for their commercial forays into the continent
18. Spelman was to leave for the appointments arranged on the continent as a matter of business, and the ulterior purpose of the Spelman's trip abroad
19. On the day before his departure, he approached Samuel concerning the notion his wife had put in his head about their dependents having a limited tour of the continent, as it were
20. Harry told of his first visit to the continent, and here Becky was most interested
21. there are still isolated parts of the Continent where the old
22. He felt at home even though this was the first time he had set foot on this continent
23. real y belong to any continent, but are included here
24. opportunity to visit the Continent when they could
25. The English colonies are altogether a new market, which, partly for coin, and partly for plate, requires a continual augmenting supply of silver through a great continent where there never was any demand before
26. The silver of the new continent seems, in this manner, to be one of the principal commodities by which the commerce between the two extremities of the old one is carried on ; and it is by means of it, in a great measure, that those distant parts of the world are connected with one another
27. island in the vicinity of a continent
28. The story of Danny the Dumpster’s travails could be easily continued and amplified with much more depressing and devastating detail, but that likely is not necessary since the same kinds of stories—just changing the actors and scenarios—are to be found throughout the plains, hills, mountains, and valleys on every continent of our planet
29. A new set of exchanges, therefore, began to take place, which had never been thought of before, and which should naturally have proved as advantageous to the new, as it certainly did to the old continent
30. Were all nations to follow the liberal system of free exportation and free importation, the different states into which a great continent was divided, would so far resemble the different provinces of a great empire
31. As among the different provinces of a great empire, the freedmn of the inland trade appears, both from reason and experience, not only the best palliative of a dearth, but the most effectual preventive of a famine; so would the freedom of the exportation and importation trade be among the different states into which a great continent was divided
32. The larger the continent, the easier the communication through all the different parts of it, both by land and by water, the less would any one particular part of it ever be exposed to either of these calamities, the scarcity of any one country being more likely to be relieved by the plenty of some other
33. The Spaniards, in virtue of the first discovery, claimed all America as their own; and though they could not hinder so great a naval power as that of Portugal from settling in Brazil, such was at that time the terror of their name, that the greater part of the other nations of Europe were afraid to establish themselves in any other part of that great continent
34. The conquerors of Chili and Peru, and of almost all the other Spanish settlements upon the continent of America, carried out with them no other public encouragement, but a general permission to make settlements and conquests in the name of the king of Spain
35. The four tribes, the Angles, Saxa's, Normasts and the Braves settled this land, the last living continent
36. The surplus produce of America imported into Europe, furnishes the inhabitants of this great continent with a variety of
37. A rupture with any of our neighbours upon the continent, though likely, too, to occasion some stop or interruption in the employments of some of all these different orders of people, is foreseen, however, without any such general emotion
38. Though the Europeans possess many considerable settlements both upon the coast of Africa and in the East Indies, they have not yet established, in either of those countries, such numerous and thriving colonies as those in the islands and continent of America
39. A great famine swept over Aeresan (and the entire continent), but the Tryl family kept control by blaming the Prophets for their problems
40. Though long-lived and well-respected, the Jonat family ruled with force, and their wars in the wake of the disaster of the Prophets’ rule caused more than half of the continent to fall under Aeresan control
41. Fahlin (FAH-lihn): A nation on the southern side of the continent, west of Aeresan
42. “East of here, Columbia has to import about everything, including water from America, which is by far the largest country on the continent
43. This project involved another trip to Eludi-4, although a different continent; this planet had now become the new Mars
44. little different as the most feared crook on the Eurasian continent
45. In this account, however, the revenue of Maryland, of North Carolina, and of all our late acquisitions, both upon the continent, and in the islands, is omitted; which may, perhaps, make a difference of thirty or forty thousand pounds
46. The blacks, indeed, who make the greater part of the inhabitants, both of the southern colonies upon the continent and of the West India islands, as they are in a state of slavery, are, no doubt, in a worse condition than the poorest people either in Scotland or Ireland
47. ‘Even to have created eight billion, to cover every continent, was a huge feat of logistics
48. ‘Then you can be in any continent with no divided observation?’
49. This measure could conceivably undermine the (varied) interests and concerns of a nation whose (increasing) plurality presently spans an entire continent (and beyond)
50. They were both Canadian, she explained while snuggling in: she from Ottawa and he from the other side of the continent, Victoria, BC