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Example sentences for "terra incognita"

  • It was a period, also, at that time almost a terra incognita in history.

  • The terra incognita of future discovery lies enveloped in cloud on the other--an untried region of fogs and darkness.

  • Mela and Solinus, printed by Henri Petri at Basle with large and small maps, one representing the New World to the east of Asia as “Terra incognita.

  • The atlas of Van Loon (1661) converts the gap into the Straits of Anian, and puts a “terra incognita” north of it.

  • All beyond, as before remarked, is terra incognita to the inhabitants of Santarem.

  • There was no path beyond this campo; in fact, all beyond is terra incognita to the inhabitants of Villa Nova.

  • And so, on setting out on the morning after that of my arrival, to provide stones for our future erection, I found myself in a terra incognita, new to the quarrier, and unknown to the geologist.

  • When poor Tom Hood once wrote that the "summer had set in with its usual severity," little thought the great humorist that he was describing the sad simple earnest of the far land, to him a terra incognita.

  • From time to time Jack had listened to these tales of Herodotus; had, with some trouble, verified the localities indicated, and seen a pioneer or two who had explored this terra incognita.

  • At that time comparatively few men had explored the terra incognita of Riverina with a view to personal settlement.

  • But around the head waters of the Yellowstone, the most attractive region of all, it was still terra incognita.

  • Evidence like the foregoing clearly indicates that this country was terra incognita to the vast body of Indians who dwelt around it, and again this singular fact presents itself for explanation.

  • He did his work single-handed, with slender means, and slight encouragement, at a time when discovery was rare and the country almost terra incognita.

  • When Mackenzie became ruler of the district, all beyond the lake was terra incognita.

  • Blazing a course through terra incognita in such a manner, however, is not without its dangers.

  • I hope you will send me at once the remaining chapters of this great 'At Large in Terra Incognita.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    backward glance; basic slag; both branches; burning sulphur; each town; fellow countrymen; five tons; form the; gentle smile; good lookin; kept thinking; little uneasy; occupy the; our cause; plate glass; presided over; return immediately; sixth century; sweet face; tensile strength; terra cotta; terra firma; terra incognita; terra regis; these three