As the hour of posting for the outward Continental night mails is 2.
Bristol is at a disadvantage as compared with London in respect of its Continental correspondence, but is far better situated than many other provincial towns.
In the 13th and 14th centuries the number of chronicles written in the vulgar tongue continued to increase, at least in continental Europe, which far outpaced England in this respect.
Drugs in great variety were tried in the continental hospitals in 1892, but without any distinct success.
The system of fermentation is very similar to the continental "lager" system, and the beer obtained bears some resemblance to the German product.
The glass vessels are finely made and of somewhat striking appearance, though they closely resemble contemporary continental types.
In art, these tribes possessed a native Late Celtic fashion, descended from far-off Mediterranean antecedents and more directly connected with the La-Tène culture of the continental Celts.
The nature of the imports during the heathen period may be learned chiefly from the graves, which contain many brooches and other ornaments of continental origin, and also a certain number of silver, bronze and glass vessels.
Since the art of glass-working was unknown, according to Bede, until nearly the end of the 7th century, it is probable that these were all of continental or Roman-British origin.
Baker, as well as Brown and Morris, in 1895, proved that this isomaltose was not a homogeneous substance, and evidence tending to the same conclusion was subsequently brought forward by continental workers.
Apart from a narrow belt of coastland, the continental area belongs almost entirely to the great plateau of East Africa, rarely falling below an elevation of 2000 ft.
James, whose object was to regain the Palatinate, believed this could only be accomplished by a continental alliance, in which France took part.
It is bounded on the east by the continental watershed in the Rocky Mountains, until this, in its north-westerly course, intersects 120° W.
Compared with English trains they are not fast, but they are faster than the average of those of Continental Europe.
He therefore informed him that a reinforcement of three hundred Continental troops had arrived to garrison the forts only two or three days before.
Conceiving that faith had been broken with them, and their promises of neutrality no longer binding, they tore up their protections, and at once ranked themselves under the Continental leaders.
During the winter of 1777, the Continental army was encamped at Valley Forge—a suffering, dispirited, yet still patriotic little host.
Ethan Allen 'In the name of God and the continental congress,' infuses much martial spirit into the narrative, which will arouse the keenest interest as it proceeds.
With Lafayette at Yorktown: A Story of How Two Boys Joined theContinental Army.
The survey of another trans-continental railway route, which shall follow mainly the 35th parallel of latitude, is nearly completed.
By an oversight in the article on the trans-continental railroad, published in our last issue, the Western or California section of the road was styled the Union Pacific, instead of the Central railroad.
Most of the principles and institutions wrought out in the experience of the colonists, especially those now seen to be most peculiarly American, were not of British, but of continental origin.
The continental or American spirit, already a spark, was fanned almost to a flame.
In common speech, the continental man was he who was more and more interested in what all the colonies did in union, and less in what the king’s ministers were pleased to dictate.
The English used “the old style,” or the calendar of Julius Cæsar, while the continental nations made use of the modern or Gregorian calendar.
The men of the English-speaking colonies which had been peopled fromcontinental and insular Europe, were inheritors of classic culture.
He was a man of sterling integrity, a Dutch patriot, and a Christian of the Reformed faith, but also a man of continental ideas, a lover of all good men, and a Catholic in the true sense of the term.
In England the school of the individual great artist upon the continental plan seems to have had no counterpart.
But from Charles the First dates truly the dawn of a love of art in England, the proper valuing of the artist-mind, and the first introduction into the country of the greatest works of the continental masters.
Father O'Neill, whose face and manner are those of the higher order of the continental clergy, briefly set forth to me his view of the transactions at Coolgreany.
The life of an American girl studying in any Continental city is always beset with difficulties.
In the time of Charlemagne Ostend was a fishing village, but only yesterday it was the Continental ideal of what a bathing place should be.
The industrial system on the islands, and particularly on those occupied by the British, is accordingly instructive as an introduction and a parallel to the continental régime.
In colonial times, plying its trade mainly with England and the West Indies, it was in little touch with its continental neighbors, and it developed a sense of separateness.
Negro slavery in the colonial period had been of continental extent but under local control.
In the chief ports of the British continental colonies the maritime transporters usually engaged merchants on shore to sell the slaves as occasion permitted, whether by private sale or at auction.
These observations will also serve to explain the apparent anomaly, that the French, and some of our other continental brethren, are held to produce a much inferior sporting gunpowder to that which is manufactured in old England.
The anxiety shown by all leading Continental sportsmen to obtain a first-class English gun, and more especially of laminated steel, is very strong evidence in support of this assertion.
So far with regard to leprosy, as seen and described by the early continental authors.
He also mentioned the extent to which the future of Australia, as a whole, depends upon a broad far-seeing railway policy, a railway policy in fact "that is continental in scope.
Our very geographical position is itself wholly different from that of any other Continental Power, and does not of course admit of comparison with the insular position of Great Britain.
Its object is to discuss with me in a manner strictly private and confidential a plan for the partial disarmament of the Continental Powers.
Each of the other three great Continental Powers is on the contrary so placed that at least on one of its frontiers it is not open to a serious attack, and France is so situated as to be practically secure from danger on three sides.
West of the Appalachian system and lying between it and the western highland is a great central valley, forming part of the continental depression which extends from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico.
CAUSE: Alexander’s refusal to enforce Napoleon’s continental system, and other causes of dispute.
The climate is milder, and the air more humid than in the more southern but continental Germany; it is not unhealthy, except in the low lying islands, such as Laaland, where the short and sudden heat of the summer occasions fevers.
The climate of Sweden is continental in the north, along the Norwegian frontier, and on the southern plateau.
San Francisco as the western terminus of the great continental railroads and of many short lines, has important steamship communication with the ports of the world.
Hence they present much less variety in relief forms than the continental islands.
Their maritime situation has a favorable effect on the climate of the British Isles, making it milder and more equable than that of continental countries in the same latitude.
Long ago the Continental Congress passed away, living only in its deeds.
The subsidies which in other times England contributed to Continental wars were less effective than the aid and comfort which she contributed to the Rebellion.
He was also in the habit of having certain shady transactions with that daring gang of continental thieves of whom Dick Archer and Hylton Chater were leaders.
Another continental custom sometimes imitated by our own countrymen, was that of adorning the walls of the banqueting-hall on great occasions with the shields of distinguished heroes.
The continental examples, especially those of Germany, are ably figured in Hefner's Costumes du Moyen-Age.
The figure of William de Valence in Westminster Abbey has it slung at the hip; an arrangement frequently adopted in French monuments, and occasionally in those of other continental countries.
What are the continental enclosures called snail gardens?
He had previously been the head of the commissariat department in the continental expeditions.
C] It was afterward applied to continentalmasses by Archbishop Pratt[D] and by the Royal Astronomer Professor Airy.
The great progress made in the study of crime, the building up of a criminal science and a criminal sociology, is almost exclusively the work of Continental criminologists.
If this be so, then the primeval ocean was universal and the future continents existed only as continental banks in the universal ocean.
From this point of view, oceanic basins andcontinental arches must have always been substantially in the same places.
If oceanic basins and continental domes constitute the greatest features of the earth's face, and are determined by the most fundamental movements of the crust, surely next in importance come great mountain ranges.
Thus were formed the oceanic basin and the continental arches of the lithosphere.
Oceanic basins and continental arches must be in static equilibrium or they could not sustain themselves.
And among these effects the most fundamentally important of all is the formation of those greatest features--the ocean basins and continental arches.
In order to be in equilibrium the sub-oceanic material must be as much more dense than the continental and sub-continental material as the ocean bottoms are lower than the continental surfaces.
The forces originating oceanic basins and continentalarches still continue to deepen the former and enlarge the latter.
It is altogether probable that the decline is much less than we had the right to expect in view of the vast influence exerted upon us by Continental types of Christianity during the past half century.
But in the present century our land, and especially our cities, have filled up with a population from the continent of Europe, bringing with them Continental methods of worship which would not yield to or readily adopt British methods.
In the case of the continental Long-tailed Tit, which is decidedly different in colouring from ours, even amateurs may perhaps see a sufficient reason; but will prefer to suspend their judgment as to the other two.
I have been even tempted to fancy that our English Robin is a finer and stouter bird than his continental relations.
Like one or two other species of which our island is the favourite home, it is much darker than its continentalcousin the White Wagtail, when in full adult plumage.
Yet to read a Continentaljournal you would think every other Japanese was carrying a club for use if they ventured ashore.
Here a man offers a thousand dollars--a thousand dollars, in Continental rags!
Even the women are thrusting their white hands into the war, and come out in this very paper with proposals to form a society--the lady of George Washington at their head--for clothing the continental troops.
They have usually been of the class that frequent Piccadilly, St. James Restaurant, the Continental Hotel, and the Dancing Clubs.
It would thus appear that in Continental Europe generally, from south to north, there is a fair uniformity of opinion as regards the pigmentary type of feminine beauty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "continental" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
