Sample Sentences foristhmus (auto-selected)
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I live on an isthmus on an island.† (source)
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Downcountry a storm had passed over the isthmus and leveled the dead black trees from east to west like weeds in the floor of a stream.† (source)
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At the very top of the slit a narrow isthmus, the Sinai, thwarted God's intention and kept Egypt and Israel connected.† (source)
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So that when I shall hereafter detail to you all the specialities and concentrations of potency everywhere lurking in this expansive monster; when I shall show you some of his more inconsiderable braining feats; I trust you will have renounced all ignorant incredulity, and be ready to abide by this; that though the Sperm Whale stove a passage through the Isthmus of Darien, and mixed the Atlantic with the Pacific, you would not elevate one hair of your eye-brow.† (source)
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Only a modest train ride separated the Burnhams, but the mounting demands of the fair made that distance as difficult to span as the Isthmus of Panama.† (source)
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But unless the Nautilus navigates on dry land and crosses over the isthmus—† (source)
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What was the meaning of that South-Sea Exploring Expedition, with all its parade and expense, but an indirect recognition of the fact that there are continents and seas in the moral world to which every man is an isthmus or an inlet, yet unexplored by him, but that it is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.† (source)
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Impossible to a railway, it can best be reached on foot, next best by light vehicles; and it is hardly accessible to these but by a sort of isthmus on the north-east, that connects it with the high chalk table-land on that side.† (source)
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But isn't that isthmus only composed of quicksand?† (source)
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Yes, last night, in a matter of minutes, we cleared that insuperable isthmus.† (source)
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On February 6 the Nautilus cruised in sight of the city of Aden, perched on a promontory connected to the continent by a narrow isthmus, a sort of inaccessible Gibraltar whose fortifications the English rebuilt after capturing it in 1839.† (source)
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In the days of the Ptolemies and the Roman emperors, it was a great commercial artery for the world, and when its isthmus has been cut through, it will completely regain that bygone importance that the Suez railways have already brought back in part.† (source)
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These waters witness the reproduction and growth of soft, delicate bath sponges whose prices run as high as ₣150 apiece: the yellow sponge from Syria, the horn sponge from Barbary, etc. But since I had no hope of studying these zoophytes in the seaports of the Levant, from which we were separated by the insuperable Isthmus of Suez, I had to be content with observing them in the waters of the Red Sea.† (source)
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And for the sake of archaeology, let's hope that sooner or later such excavations do take place, once new towns are settled on the isthmus after the Suez Canal has been cut through—a canal, by the way, of little use to a ship such as the Nautilus!† (source)
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In less than twenty minutes, swept along by the torrent, the Nautilus had just cleared the Isthmus of Suez.† (source)
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"But with all due respect to Master," Conseil ventured to observe, "it's like an actual isthmus connecting Europe to Africa."† (source)
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