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Example sentences for "antipodes"

Lexicographically close words:
antiphons; antiphony; antipodal; antipode; antipodean; antipope; antipyretic; antiqua; antiquae; antiquarian
  1. Hochstetter, our geologist, during his stay in New Zealand, the more copious details of his eight months' stay at the Antipodes being reserved for a special volume.

  2. Said I not a minute ago, that the antipodes live not around the world, but around the street corner?

  3. Ill-educated Antipodes views mankind only as excoriators of his back, and general flagellants.

  4. Cosmas in the sixth century was unable to understand how, if the earth was a sphere, those at the antipodes could see Christ at his coming.

  5. The Spaniards went their way in error, and it took them nearly thirty years to find a route that could bring them where they could defend at the antipodes their rights under the Bull of Demarcation.

  6. Some went south to the islands of the Antipodes and called themselves Maories; others went north of the equator and called themselves Hawaiians.

  7. Swift as are the vessels which thread the largest ocean on earth, travelers who do more than pass through Fiji on their way between America and the Antipodes are few.

  8. Mixed with surprised curiosity at two Antipodes so close together comes a feeling of contact with eternity, the present of yesterday linking itself with the antiquity which is to be.

  9. She was to sail for the Antipodes at two.

  10. Further, if the plan of linking the islands together by wireless is effected, they will become an outer frontier for the Antipodes of inestimable value.

  11. But the stranger in the Antipodes is plunged into a bath of youth.

  12. Though material security has been assured by the State, the result of much of the legislation in the Antipodes seems to me to have been something akin to the class system in England.

  13. And not without reason, for the type of Englishman who set out for the Antipodes was one who generally had nothing to sustain him at home.

  14. When, for example, the celebrated question of Antipodes came to be discussed, the Bible was with many the ultimate court of appeal.

  15. In the fourth century the belief in Antipodes was deemed unscriptural and heretical.

  16. He feels sure this will mark a turning point in the work in the Antipodes and the neighbouring islands and give a new lease of life to the teaching work throughout that area.

  17. He is seriously considering the possibility of having a Bahá’í Temple built in the Antipodes during the present 10 Year Plan, on the Temple site already purchased in Sydney.

  18. Peckover found himself wishing that the abominable extremity had been planted in the Antipodes and had taken root or, for preference, withered away there.

  19. Every day he expected to find that his trackers from the Antipodes had departed in disgust; every night he was disappointed.

  20. All that the one estate, its castle, its village, its tenantry, represented, was the antipodes of that which the other stood for.

  21. He was slouching along, his head drooping and his broad shoulders expressing the definite antipodes of good spirits.

  22. It is the enemy of clearness, of a calm and rational view of things, the antipodes of criticism and of science.

  23. Marcellus shared this view; but also his antipodes Arius had adopted it in order to avoid postulating two creatures in Christ.

  24. St. Paul saith, let not the sun go down on your wrath, to carry news to the antipodes in another world of thy revengeful nature.

  25. Temperance, the antipodes of Gluttony, represented by Saturn, 727-l.

  26. It will soon be heard at the antipodes as easily as in the next street.

  27. They showed forth the naked truth that Jesus' ideal and nature's goal for man are the antipodes of each other, at least as regards different nations struggling with each other for supreme power.

  28. Americans "lump" all Chinese under this head, and can not conceive that in China there are cultivated men, just as there are cultivated men in Ireland, the antipodes of the grotesque Irish types seen in America.

  29. These Antipodes call to one's mind old recollections of childish doubt and wonder.

  30. The meridian of the Antipodes has likewise been passed; and now every league, it made us happy to think, was one league nearer to England.

  31. That fair and fair-haired girl has blue eyes; she is the antipodes of the beautiful Jewess, and only such eyes as Esther's could ever stir a man so rotten as Nucingen.

  32. He stood speechless on seeing a woman the very antipodes to Esther; fair hair where he had seen black, slenderness where he had admired a powerful frame!

  33. But the Deacon, good old Deacon Richardson, was in political sentiment, as in every thing else, the very antipodes of the minister.

  34. The more intimately I came to know him, after our marriage, the more did my soul separate itself from him, until the antipodes were not farther apart than we.

  35. Physically and temperamentally he appeared to be the antipodes of the reporter, who was thin, nervous, and wiry, with quick, snappy ways and electric mental processes.

  36. She proved to be the antipodes of what they had hoped for.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "antipodes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    antipodes; antithesis; contra; contrary; converse; counter; counterbalance; counterpoint; foil; frontier; inverse; nowhere; obverse; offset; opposite; outpost; outskirts; pole; reverse; sticks