Having in view even larger considerations of policy than those of a purely economic nature, it would, in my judgment, be well to endeavor to bring about closer commercial connections with the other peoples of this continent.
We do not wish to see any Old World military power grow up on this continent, or to be compelled to become a military power ourselves.
No single great material work which remains to be undertaken onthis continent is of such consequence to the American people as the building of a canal across the Isthmus connecting North and South America.
It is most singular that the high lands on this continent seem to be confined to the sea coast or not to extend to any distance from it.
Hitherto no cocoa-nuts have been found on this continent, although so great a portion of it is within the tropic, and its north-east coast, so near to islands on which this fruit is abundant.
Many scholars have pointed out to us the scattering bits of evidence going to show that the ancestors of the present Eskimos once inhabited the interior of this continent.
Whitney: "It is evident that there has been no unfolding of the intellectual faculties of the human race on this continent similar to that which has taken place in Central Europe.
The changes which have been wrought, on this continent, within a century and a half, are very wonderful.
There were over sixty distinct tribes of Indians on this continent, each of which boasted its notable men.
It was his to see the end of the original democracy on this continent.
It were not worth while for me to come a thousand miles to say this, or to draw over again for the hundredth time the character of the New England Pilgrim, nor to sketch his achievement on this continent.
It is a pity to destroy any pleasing story of the past, and especially to discharge our hard struggle for a foothold on this continent of the few elements of romance.
The State of Texas could supply food, home, and luxuries to every man, woman, and child on this continent.
What would have been the result of Webster's reply to Hayne, the greatest oratorical effort ever made on this continent, if he had sat down in the Senate and put his feet on his desk?
Yet the man who more than any other is responsible for the industrial regeneration of this continent started in life as a newsboy on the Grand Trunk Railway.
A flight of birds probably prevented Columbus from discovering this continent.
When the Europeans came to this continentat the end of the fifteenth century they found it already inhabited by races of men very different from themselves.
This does not show that men originated separately on this continent.
We may turn to geology to find how long mankind has lived on this continent.
Hence the Aborigines of this continent developed in the course of ages peculiarities which distinguish them from other races, and justify their being regarded as, practically, native to the soil.
As I have always considered the independancy of this continent, as an event, which sooner or later must arrive, so from the late rapid progress of the continent to maturity, the event could not be far off.
The powers of governing still remaining in the hands of the king, he will have a negative over the whole legislation of this continent.
Judged by this evidence, we may say that a large part of the northern section of this continent, particularly the area about the Great Lakes, has been exempt from considerable shocks since the glacier passed away.
The Turks have practised the same maxim of not meddling in the complicated wrangles of this continent.
Perhaps the spring may unfold to us the final arrangement, which will take place among the powers of this continent.
Mr. Russell had originally gone to America during the progress of the Revolutionary War, in the capacity of Secretary to Sir Henry Clinton, Commander-in-chief of the British forces on this continent.
For the terrible records of battle, murder, torture and death, of which the history of the early settlement of this continentis so largely made up, the white man and the Christian must be held chiefly responsible.
And on this continent, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, men of English stock performed prodigies of cruelty to which parallels can be found in the history of the Inquisition alone.
The red man was the original possessor of this continent, the settlement, of which by Europeans sounded the death-knell of his sovereignty.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this continent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
