Peter Plagens has written metaphorically about Francis' paintings of the late 50s as pilot's-eye views over an ocean, characterizing them as "mural-sized canvases whose oceans of glaring white are interrupted by continents, islands, peninsulas, and isthmuses of intense blue, red, and yellow..." ❋ John Seed (2011)
Oh, the winner of this week's contest is Matt Bradshaw from the isthmuses of Gmail. ❋ Unknown (2009)
With respect to their towns, later on, at an era of increased facilities of navigation and a greater supply of capital, we find the shores becoming the site of walled towns, and the isthmuses being occupied for the purposes of commerce and defence against a neighbour. ❋ Thucydides (2005)
Take, for example, Africa and the region of Peru with the continent stretching to the Straits of Magellan, in each of which tracts there are similar isthmuses and similar promontories, which can hardly be by accident. ❋ Unknown (2005)
With respect to their cities, later on, at an era of increased facilities of navigation and a greater supply of capital, we find the shores becoming the site of walled cities, and the isthmuses being occupied for the purposes of commerce and defense against a neighbor. ❋ Robert B. Strassler (2003)
The overland route took months; trips across the isthmuses of Panama and Nicaragua knocked 7,900 miles off the Cape Horn route but were notorious for malaria, cholera, and yellow fever; the golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah, was still three years away. ❋ JOE JACKSON (2003)
The ground plan, as seen from a balloon, would represent a round head to the north, a thin neck, and a body rudely triangular, the whole measuring a maximum of five miles in length: the sandy northern circlet, connected by the narrowest of isthmuses, sweeping eastward, forms the noted port. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Strategically, the same was true: Europe, the traditional enemy, lay to the eastward, and European island bases watched the eastern seaboard; in the 1880s, with memories of the French in Mexico still green, the subdivision of Africa drew fresh attention to European capabilities, while the British occupation of Egypt and the presence of Ferdinand De Lesseps in Panama emphasized what attractive nuisances isthmuses could become. ❋ Gerald N. Grob (1967)
Time and again he found narrow isthmuses of city, lines of buildings half a mile across following old superhighways. ❋ Niven, Larry (1966)
The North Zirks have ridden all the way around it, on hipposaur-back, in the high latitudes, and the thalassic peoples at the Equator have sailed all the five equatorial seas and portaged all the isthmuses between. ❋ Piper, H. Beam (1952)
No kickshaw ditties, favourites with national enemies, but ... genuine George the Third home brewed, exhorting him (as 'my brave boys') to reduce to a smashed condition all other islands but this island, and all continents, peninsulas, isthmuses, promontories, and other geographical forms of land soever, besides sweeping the sea in all directions. ❋ James T. Lightwood (N/A)
During the past year the Navy has, in addition to its regular service, supplied the men and officers for the vessels of the Coast Survey, and has completed the surveys authorized by Congress of the isthmuses of ❋ United States. Presidents. (N/A)
She is foremost to-day in piercing with tunnels the mountain-chains, that the wheels of trade may roll unobstructed through rocky barriers, and cutting canals through the great isthmuses that the keels of commerce may sweep unhindered across the seas. ❋ Various (N/A)
Great masses of vegetation, piers, causeways, isthmuses of grass offered the illusion of growing out of the ocean bottom, linking themselves to the land, extending too late the lost coast far out into the Pacific. ❋ Ward Moore (1940)
They are nearly south of Japan, and north of Borneo and the Celebes, with which they are connected by three partly-submerged isthmuses. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
