Mainland

Examples

• These pagan Saxons and English of the mainland and their kindred from Denmark and Norway are the Danes and Northmen of our national histories. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And at first the Greek cities of the mainland of Asia paid the tribute and shared in this Persian Peace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On its way west in the Pacific the Beagle spent a month at the Galapagos Archipelago, which lies under the equator five or six hundred miles from the mainland. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Why should the plants and animals of the islands resemble those of the mainland, or the inhabitants of one island differ from those of a neighboring i sland? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He set himself to make mischief, and was able to stir up a revolt against the Persians among the Ionian Greeks on the mainland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But Dr. Gunther has lately shown that the Galaxias attenuatus inhabits Tasmania, New Zealand, the Falkland Islands and the mainland of South America. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The next finest suspension bridge was constructed by Thomas Telford and finished in 1826, across the Menai Strait to connect the island of Anglesea with the mainland of Wales. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Other authors have thus hypothetically bridged over every ocean, and united almost every island with some mainland. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• The most perfect specimen is that upon the island of Mousa, near to the mainland of Zetland, which is probably in the same state as when inhabited. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Then, when we are tired of Melnos, we can cross over to the mainland, and have a cruise up the Black Sea before returning to England. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• These they could supply easily from the African mainland, and, as long as their sea ascendancy held, they could exhaust any Roman effort against them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The seamen would find it easy to make nests upon islands and in strong positions on the mainland. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mainlands or the islands? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.

Typist: Melville