Maps

Examples

• The Peruvians also got to making maps and the use of counting-frames. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A proposal for correcting modern maps. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Let four maps of Poland tell the tale. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In 1815 he completed an extensive geological map of England, on which all subsequent geological maps have been modeled. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Hans had shown it all to him on his maps of the battle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Engineer and staff officers were put to the dangerous duty of supplying the place of both maps and guides. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was a large long room with some large maps in it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It is worth while for the reader to compare the treaty maps we give with what we have called the natural political map of Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The only way of proving it, however, will be to turn to our maps. Jane Austen. Emma.
• He neve r attained any literary facility, and was always more successful in conveying his observations by maps, drawings, and con versation than by books. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• This art is also largely employed for printing maps, and the reproduction of the pages of books by this process has flooded the stores and news stands with cheap literature. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But both in the matter of our time charts and the three maps we have given of prehistoric geography there is necessarily much speculative matter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The country, however, was new to us, and we had neither guides nor maps to tell us where the roads were, or where they led to. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Many useful and artistic articles were made under this first patented process, including maps, surgical bandages, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• They said they were not in error more than one hundred feet, and that the station was twelve miles out of the position given on the maps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Here, again, we need a determinative; we might add the two crossed swords, a sign which is used very often upon maps to denote a battle. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And similarly in these maps we give, they represent not the truth, but something like the truth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Our beautifully colored chromos, prints, labels, maps, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• All this information was embodied graphically in large maps of the district, by annotations in colored inks; and Edison thus could study the question with every detail before him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• But both Mr. Horrabin, who has drawn these maps, and I, who have incited him to do so, have preferred to err on the timid side. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• On September 18 Leverrier sent a letter to Dr. Galle, ofthe Berlin Observatory, which was provided with a set of star maps, prepared at the inst ance of Bessel. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• On the walls hung two maps; in the windows flowered a few hardy plants; in short, here was a miniature classe--complete, neat, pleasant. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• I went in and found the major sitting at a table in the bare room with maps and typed sheets of paper on the wall. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• He constructed geological maps of Somerset and fourteen other English counties, to which the attention of the Board of Agricultu re was called. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• We were also operating in a country unknown to us, and without competent guides or maps showing the roads accurately. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I doubt if I could have felt much stranger if the maps had been real foreign countries, and I cast away in the middle of them. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

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