Sentence examples for edge of a continent from inspiring English sources

Bethia and her family live at the easternmost edge of a continent as yet unconquered.

Bio-geographically, it's still very much an island," with its unique Mediterranean climate at the edge of a continent.

I stepped onto the ice and picked up the pace, thrilled to be gliding off the edge of a continent.

It lives on the edge of a continent whose stability is not assured, and where European nationalistic ghosts have returned.

Whether or not it is a "myth" that Britain stood alone at the edge of a continent torn apart by war, Britain clearly "did its bit".

Seeing this brings home the fact that we are on the very edge of a continent, the last landfall before Syria.

When the 13 American colonies won their independence from Britain, they were a thin fringe of settlement clinging to the edge of a vast continent.

The 2½ million Americans on the edge of a vast continent in 1776 had no assurance of their future.

Because the events of 1692 were tragic – a superstitious community, isolated on the edge of an unknown continent, devouring itself.

So at this site, 505 million years ago, on the western edge of the continent, there was a shallow water community that was living on the edge of a cliff, and occasionally the cliff would fall down, the sediment on the cliff would fall down, and it would bury things; and that's what the shale consists of.

I shrugged off the forecast and drove 21 miles to the edge of the continent to take a look. .