Sentence examples for unknown continent from inspiring English sources
The agent of change was not a revolution, an implacable army at the gates, or landfall on an unknown continent.
Because the events of 1692 were tragic – a superstitious community, isolated on the edge of an unknown continent, devouring itself.
A German U-boat and its civilian prisoners find themselves off course; they wash up without fuel on the unknown continent of Caprona, where dinosaurs still roam the Earth.
By Alex Ross The experimental opera composer Robert Ashley has delved so deep into the mechanics of Midwestern American conversation that he has discovered an unknown continent of strange emotion in it.
The experimental opera composer Robert Ashley has delved so deep into the mechanics of Midwestern American conversation that he has discovered an unknown continent of strange emotion in it.
As president, he engineered America's single largest expansion with the Louisiana Purchase (of which today's state was a relatively small part) and sent his closest presidential aide as captain of the Lewis and Clark Expedition across the unknown continent to the Pacific.
And public ownership is by no means unknown on the Continent, as Mrs Williams showed in her catalogue of achievements by French and Italian nationalised concerns.
The level of involvement and animation, in a continent unknown to Shakespeare, almost 400 years after his death, among youngsters whose first language was not always English, should give encouragement to those who feel we ask too little of young people's intellectual potential in this country today.
A near-unknown from the continent had just snapped up a high-street stalwart – and City newsrooms were agog.
Living in the age of great explorers — his assistant in the Florentine Chancery was Agostino Vespucci, cousin of Amerigo — Machiavelli saw himself as one of their company, with a mission "no less dangerous" than seeking "unknown seas and continents".
Whether these were islands or parts of a bigger continent was unknown.
