Continents

Examples

• We have felt the fierce play of volcanic effort, lifting new continents of opportunity from the infertile sea, without any devastation of pre-existing fields of human toil and harvest. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Vapours from other continents arrived upon the wind, which curled and parted round him as he walked on. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The floras of distant continents would not by such means become mingled; but would remain as distinct as they now are. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Close pent-up guilt, Raise your concealing continents, and ask These dreadful summoners grace! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The nature and relative proportions of the inhabitants of oceanic islands are likewise opposed to the belief of their former continuity of continents. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Our continents seem to have been formed by a preponderance, during many oscillations of level, of the force of elevation. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• It was formerly believed that the same fresh-water species never existed on two continents distant from each other. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• This likewise necessarily occurs with closely allied organisms, which inhabit distinct continents or islands. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Close wedded by that mystic cord, Her continents are one. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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