The nature of the antipodean inversion of climates was clearly grasped by her contemporary, Herrade de Landsberg (Fig.
A fresh struggle ensued, ending (save in the antipodean regions) in the triumph of the half-castes.
The language here has a powerful antipodean flatness, and depends on its laconic pauses.
For an instant Peckover looked dubious; then realizing his ignorance of fighting under antipodean conditions, he accepted the statement for what it was worth.
It is full of excellent imported trout, which flourish well in these antipodean waters and attain a weight of six or seven pounds.
But just here, where my beloved antipodean home stood, we had no trees whatever, except those which we had planted ourselves, and whose growth we watched with eager interest.
Australasia is a term much used at home to express the whole of our Antipodean possessions; in the colonies themselves the name is almost unknown, or, if used, is meant to embrace Australia and Tasmania, not Australia and New Zealand.
There was a certain interest, I found, to be derived from the noting of all the changes which a quarter of a century had wrought in this antipodean Venice.
In the Antipodean colonies of Great Britain is realized, perhaps, the nearest approach to true freedom; and, in a wide social sense, the closest approximation to the ideal republic.
Moreover, they have to learn the meaning of an Antipodean ganger's frequent cry, "Double up, there!
He is easily frightened, and deterred from his purpose by the simplest contrivances; and is quite devoid of that cunning which characterizes his antipodean prototype.
If Boldrewood were asked to explain his silence respecting Antipodean life of the present day, he might reply that the novel of modern manners did not form any part of the work which he had chosen to do.
Most of the other writers who have contributed to the portrayal of a certain few aspects of Antipodean life have gone to London or elsewhere.
Very pathetic, and marked by some distinctively Antipodean traits, is the sister of the bushrangers in Robbery under Arms.
The writers 'excel in small pieces with three or four figures,' and are able conveniently to dispense with sensationalism--a point not yet reached by Antipodean novelists.
Mrs. Praed, lightly skimming the surface of Antipodean political life in two of her stories, has shown it to be not without humour, nor lacking in the elements of more serious interest.
Among the "left off clothes" we presume it will be a good speculation to include a few "coats of arms" for the use of the Antipodean aristocracy.
It goes upon the Antipodean theory of making the pretty faces appear ugly, and the ugly ones still uglier.
Then there are tree-hunters exploring all the continents, and bringing new species from Japan and other antipodean countries.
Artificial lakes are made for the cultivation of fish caught inAntipodean streams.
Antipodean agriculturists meet in the great international concours of cattle, horses, sheep and swine.
But speaking generally, the Terra Australis of the old cartographers was a gigantic antipodean imposture, a mere piece of map-makers' furniture, put in to fill up the gaping space at the south end of the globe.
