单词 | terra incognita |
例句 | She gets banished to bras, which is terra incognita for us—huge banks of shelves bearing barely distinguishable bi-coned objects—for a three-hour stretch. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z If the University of Chicago was terra incognita for Jesse, it was also unsettling for me, not a world I was at ease in. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Brown and Mr. Wheatley admit that they are in terra incognita here. A Gamble That Bourbon Can Grow Old Gracefully 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z For even the most sincere and intrepid voices in popland, the Goldilocks zone remains terra incognita. Review | New name. New sound. But the Chicks still sound like the truth. 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z One is the subject of intense curiosity, extensive remembrance, rampant mythologizing and an industry of book-writing both scholarly and popular; the other is almost entirely terra incognita for most Americans. No closure after Appomattox 2015-03-26T04:00:00Z Like almost everyone else involved in classical music, Dausgaard is concerned about the development of future concert audiences in a digital era where the concert hall is increasingly terra incognita. Meet Thomas Dausgaard, Seattle Symphony’s new music director 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z The students’ innocuous vanity serves as a foil to Kominsky’s metastatic form of it as he moves into the terra incognita of post-late-middle-age. Is Theater Ridiculous? Movies, TV and Books Seem to Think So 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Navigating though the terra incognita of small and often insignificant flies requires considerable diligence and experience, which bore fruit in his monograph on the classification of blood-sucking simuliid black-flies of Africa. Paul Freeman obituary 2010-08-25T17:24:00Z “The Black Penguin” relays the ups and downs of that journey, but the terra incognita Evans claims is his own pride. Destinations Await in the Summer’s Best Travel Books 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z What to make of this, besides the usual platitudes about the terra incognita of emerging technology? Books still big business in 2010 2011-05-27T23:02:51Z The surprise that initially greeted this entrenched polarization reinforces, all too well, the thrust of the current exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: that the true terra incognita is outside of town. Rem Koolhaas Gives Beleaguered City Folk a Trip to the Countryside 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z And was The Rite really such a revolution in music, a gigantic leap of faith into a terra incognita that would inspire every subsequent composer? The Rite of Spring: 'The work of a madman' 2013-02-12T19:59:01Z But contemporary Japanese theater remains by and large terra incognita. A Japanese Director's World Debut 2010-05-26T12:30:00Z Ultimately, though, the current debate is misleading because the format is still, for the most part, terra incognita. 3-D filmmaking's radical, revolutionary potential 2010-08-10T16:50:00Z Perhaps fittingly enough, it is only in the period that gave us the phrase "terra incognita" that his mapping of the contours of cartography in the past becomes just a trifle perfunctory. A History of the World in Twelve Maps by Jerry Brotton – review 2012-08-24T07:00:02Z Yet even though I occasionally dipped into her many essay collections, the fiction remained terra incognita. Review | Virginia Woolf’s novels once left me cold. A new book about ‘Mrs. Dalloway’ changed my mind. 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z For New Yorkers, with little such history, the style and wryness of the piece, and the culture that spawned it, were terra incognita. 'Zoot Suit': How Latino theater born in the farm fields changed L.A. theater forever 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Anderson’s passion is to bring his music to Navajo children for whom such sounds remain terra incognita. Delbert Anderson’s Mission: Putting ‘Native Sound Back Into Jazz’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z The feeling of stepping into terra incognita makes “A Dangerous Method” something of an adventure story. | 'A Dangerous Method': ?A Dangerous Method,? by David Cronenberg - Review 2011-11-22T18:02:01Z The goal is to retrace the path of the Domínguez-Escalante expedition, which carved an irregular circle of 1,700 miles through modern-day New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Arizona, then mostly terra incognita to Europeans. They’re Not as Famous as Lewis and Clark, but They Should Be 2019-07-16T04:00:00Z A lot of this is good — information is more accessible than ever — but it's terra incognita for libraries, publishers and authors. Libraries, publishers armed for e-book showdown 2011-04-01T20:56:05Z And, let’s face it, clichés of Mounties and hockey aside, Canada remains a terra incognita for Americans and much of the world. How We Put Together Our 52 Places to Go List 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z For many years, the human Y chromosome was terra incognita. The Complete Human Y Chromosome Marks an Opportunity to Move Away from Stigma 2023-09-27T04:00:00Z California was terra incognita to the tight fraternity of fliers on the East Coast and in Europe. How a 1910 air show launched L.A.’s rise to aerospace capital 2023-01-10T05:00:00Z One reason people have depleted groundwater is that the subsurface has been terra incognita. Hidden ‘Paleo Valleys’ Could Help California Survive Droughts 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z We could soon be in legal terra incognita, they said — like the days when medieval cartographers would write “Here Be Dragons” along the unexplored edges of world maps. It’s 2024. Trump Backers Won’t Certify the Election. What Next, Legally? 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z While researchers explored the healthy microbiome, cancer remained mostly terra incognita. A New Approach to Spotting Tumors: Look for Their Microbes 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z So when Burton heard that the Royal Geographical Society was planning an expedition into this enticing terra incognita, his reaction was foreseeable: “I shall strain every nerve to command it.” Review | They found the source of the Nile — and became lifelong enemies 2022-05-27T04:00:00Z Even before statehood, in 1850, first Spain and then Mexico tried to govern their terra incognita from thousands of miles away. Why has massive California never been split into two states? Or six? 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z They are relics from a time when the female body was considered terra incognita for great minds of medicine to explore, stake out and claim. Even the G-Spot is Named for a Man 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z And then, Southern California was terra incognita — a new, unsettling and unsettled place that made newcomers nervous. L.A. has no seasons, you say? Wrong. Here's how to mark them 2021-06-29T04:00:00Z For children in kindergarten and transitional kindergarten, school itself is terra incognita. How can parents navigate school reopenings? Ask L.A. Times reporters 2021-04-27T04:00:00Z But Özel says that even with limited resolution, EHT can contribute significantly to testing general relativity in the conceptual terra incognita around a black hole. After decades of effort, scientists are finally seeing black holes—or are they? 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z The idea of terra incognita exerts a powerful pull at this moment. A New Theory About the Monolith: We’re the Aliens 2020-12-28T05:00:00Z Common ground on policy is not terra incognita. Opinion | Build on Common Ground 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z At that time, the atmospheric chemistry of the Antarctic was terra incognita. The discovery of the Antarctic ozone hole 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z “In a sense, the truly unknown, the true terra incognita is the landscape of the human soul,” said Gray during a recent interview in Los Angeles. How Brad Pitt's 'Ad Astra' survived delays, a tweaked ending and a Disney adoption 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z An army of radioastronomy projects small and large is now trying to chart this terra incognita. The quest to unlock the secrets of the baby Universe 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z These islands remained a terra incognita until the British colonised them in the late 18th century. The lesson from this missionary’s death? Leave the Sentinelese alone | Ajay Saini 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z That puts Barnard’s star b squarely into a terra incognita between small rocky planets like Earth and larger gas planets like Neptune. Super-Earth spied in the second-closest star system from the sun 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z Crudely surveyed at twenty thousand feet a dozen years earlier, Denali itself remained unmapped terra incognita. Chasing Denali: how four miners created one of climbing's greatest mysteries 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z “It’s not terra incognita, but we didn’t have a good appreciation for what was really there.” This major discovery upends long-held theories about the Maya civilization 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z This is terra incognita in so many ways. WhatsApp plans to ban under-16s. The mystery is how | Charles Arthur 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Despite its scientific promise, machine learning in medicine remains terra incognita in many ways. To Fight Fatal Infections, Hospitals May Turn to Algorithms 2018-02-13T05:00:00Z In my day-to-day world, such zealous support for the gun culture is anathema. I was on terra incognita. Opinion | Country music knows who pays the bills 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z Paglen’s most recent work is another departure into that digital landscape, this time into the terra incognita of artificial intelligence. Trevor Paglen: art in the age of mass surveillance 2017-11-25T05:00:00Z “In terms of tracing and understanding the spiral structure, essentially half of the Milky Way is terra incognita.” Astronomers Are Finally Mapping the “Dark Side” of the Milky Way 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z But for Chatwin, the journeys were both real and imaginary: Fact became fiction, and fiction fact, and the terra incognita he traveled between them was where the true adventure lay. Bruce Chatwin: One of the Last Great Explorers 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z In a research report, Doug Creutz, an analyst at Cowen and Company, summed up Disney’s streaming plans, especially for movies and television, as “aggressively” pushing “the traditional content business into terra incognita.” With Disney’s Move to Streaming, a New Era Begins 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z Miga regards them as the explorer Livingstone did Africa — terra incognita whose inaccessibility seems like a personal affront. The Human Genome Was Never Completely Sequenced 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z Given that this is judicial terra incognita, there's no telling how the courts will react. Trump to be sued over foreign payments by attorneys general - BBC News 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z To Victorian Britain, Earth's poles were an icy terra incognita, ostensibly ripe for exploration. Books in brief : Nature : Nature Research 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z “I expect to see children scattering in every direction and to hear Siamangs and hornbills in the forest beyond. After the hamlet we are in terra incognita.” Conservationists plan expedition to secret ‘Noah’s Ark’ in Sumatra 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z If McMullin is declared the winner, it’s a good sign that the night is truly in uncharted territory, terra incognita, in the most exciting way. Your election night survival guide: what to expect as polls close – with cocktails! 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z “Genetically, the Near East was terra incognita,” said David Reich, a geneticist at Harvard Medical School. How the First Farmers Changed History 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z But the brain was terra incognita, and Dr. Tang figured he needed a brain guy to support his Zika research grant application. A Window Into the Workings of Zika 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z I liked the feeling of entering terra incognita. Alone in the Alps 2016-04-11T04:00:00Z It’s a genuine American terra incognita and yet in some fashion that unknown landscape is already part of our sense of ourselves and our world. We've entered uncharted territory. But don't blame it all on Donald Trump 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z Peary had labored mightily for decades to reach the pole, losing eight toes to amputation, supposedly focused on scientifically documenting terra incognita — but in truth he, too, was obsessed with personal glory. An Insurance Salesman and a Doctor Walk Into a Bar, and End Up at the North Pole 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z What’s more, at that time, the far side of the moon was still very much terra incognita. No, the Apollo 10 Astronauts Didn't Hear 'Alien Music' Behind the Moon 2016-02-22T05:00:00Z And if the analyst consensus estimate compiled by FactSet holds true, iPhone sales will enter terra incognita the following quarter by dropping for the first time compared with a year earlier. Apple’s Real Rival Isn’t Google 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z “Why, I am a sort of Columbus of those near-at-hand and believe you can come to them in this immediate terra incognita that spreads out in every gaze.” Salman Rushdie to Grads: Try to Be Larger Than Life 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z For many Americans, Franciacorta is terra incognita, both as a culinary destination and as a wine region. Three Landmark Dishes -- From Italy's Vineyards 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z “I’m most excited about studying the deepest parts of the brain, which has effectively been terra incognita. . . . We’re like Galileo looking at the sky with a telescope. We’re looking at the brain with new tools.” NIH announces $46 million in grants for new BRAIN initiative projects How much consumers use those apps and where they go from there is terra incognita. SimilarWeb unifies mapping of mobile and computer Web 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z In short, the noble fig leaf of terra incognita has fallen away and laid bare the peripatetic, outsize bravado of Scott’s kindred spirits. The Woman Who Walked 10,000 Miles (No Exaggeration) in Three Years 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z That terra incognita, that unknown land, spreads out right now from your gaze as well. Salman Rushdie to Grads: Try to Be Larger Than Life 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z "Despite Stonehenge being the most iconic of all prehistoric monuments and occupying one of the richest archaeological landscapes in the world, much of this landscape in effect remains terra incognita," Gaffney said. Radical discovery: Stonehenge 'teeming with chapels and shrines' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Maybe we are off the beaten path of history and in terra incognita. New weird order: 21st century defying everything history taught us 2014-03-04T13:20:00Z To Beckham, a new challenge is more likely to involve another venture into terra incognita, with Australia and China among the favourites. David Beckham will likely opt for one more venture into the unknown 2012-11-20T11:27:19Z Their biographers burrow into mysterious places that chroniclers from other lands would regard as terra incognita. World on a Page 2012-08-27T05:00:00Z Perhaps there, in paleoanthropological terra incognita, he will find another unexpected emissary from the dawn of humankind that will rewrite the story of our origins once again. First of Our Kind: Could Australopithecus sediba Be Our Long Lost Ancestor? 2012-03-20T15:15:04.437Z Though not more than half a hundred miles from Boston, as the crow flies, Cape Cod is regarded as a sort of terra incognita by fully half of New England. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Richard came in just now, and we have been talking over our future—Russia is a "terra incognita" to all of us. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Nearly every church on the Isthmus has had its deflections and divisions, and anything like the modern movement toward unity and cooperation of the Christian program is a terra incognita to this enthusiastic individualist. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z The Island Empire of the Pacific is still, to a great extent, with all her wealth, a terra incognita. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Several old hunting friends whom I met at the Club, although they had ranged the wildernesses of the Northwest from the Barren Lands to Alaska, spoke of the Big Bend as a veritable terra incognita. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z In New York you are as far as ever from this terra incognita. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z Practically Cuba remained, so far as its social, economic and political conditions were concerned, a terra incognita. The History of Cuba, vol. 3 2011-11-28T03:00:26.510Z There was a palpable sense that Detroit fans and broadcasters are on terra incognita right now. Bats: A Tale of Two Cities Talking 2011-10-03T18:43:29Z Thirty years ago Central Africa was what people who are fond of airing their learning would call a terra incognita. Zanzibar Tales Told by natives of the East Coast of Africa 2011-09-20T02:00:14.730Z At last in 1831 Murchison began to attack this terra incognita on the borders of South Wales, working into it from the Old Red Sandstone, the stratigraphical position of which was well known. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z One can only speak vaguely of detail, as this is still a terra incognita. Equatorial America Descriptive of a Visit to St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbadoes, and the Principal Capitals of South America 2011-08-05T02:00:46.387Z This was, I think, Dickens’s only passage through Germany, which in language and literature remained a terra incognita to him, while in various ways so well known to his friendly rivals, Lord Lytton and Thackeray. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z To-day the Emblemata literature is a terra incognita except to a very few students, and yet it is full of interest, romance, and mystery. The Mystery of Francis Bacon 2011-07-09T02:00:14.663Z All that country was to us a terra incognita, until overrun by Captain Bacthelor, with a part of the 25th Infantry in the fall of 1899, the following year. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z It is not more than a year ago that the Philippines were a terra incognita to us all, of which we knew the name, but hardly more. The Friars in the Philippines 2011-06-17T02:00:20.100Z Here we gave three cheers, and with cheery hopes I started once more for a terra incognita. Lost in the Jungle Narrated for Young People 2011-06-07T02:00:11.183Z Considerable confusion of opinion may still exist, but it is now generally recognised that there is a wide sphere of research in psychical regions which is practically a terra incognita. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z It was terra incognita to most seamen and all save a few whale-ships or traders. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z So was the rest of the archipelago a like terra incognita, until likewise slowly conquered by hard fighting. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z Half-a-dozen pieces of evidence, and twenty years before even so much could be got together; and who knows what mirage or terra incognita may be beyond all this? The Three Impostors or The Transmutations 2011-03-09T03:00:45.227Z But this point of view is too far off for accurate observations, and the strip of mountain was practically, therefore, a terra incognita to us. Above the Snow Line 2011-03-03T03:00:49.380Z Only for that the sage-brush country, the very place where I was born might have remained a terra incognita. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z Nor is this the only terra incognita still awaiting exploration. Stained Glass Tours in England 2011-01-03T03:01:00.547Z But at present the country is a terra incognita. The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph 2010-12-29T03:00:29.577Z They were acquainted with but ten or fifteen miles of its course, beyond which all was terra incognita to them, or, as the baas in his Dutch vernacular expressed it, “verder onbekend.” The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z This is the homeland of the Eagles Fan, terra incognita for anyone not wearing a midnight green jersey. The Fifth Down: Eagles Fans Tell McNabb How They Really Feel 2010-10-04T02:50:00Z For Apple, the eastern half of Europe is still both terra incognita and non desiderata. Europe.view: Cupertino's cold warriors 2010-05-06T11:37:00Z But this city is terra incognita for him. NYC: New Yorkers Offer Tips for New Deputy Mayor 2010-05-04T00:51:00Z The hero of this performance, after various adventures, was married to a dusky princess in the terra incognita, and made almost as many marvellous discoveries as are recorded by Jonathan Romer. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 It is true that the greater part of the cortex remains still terra incognita unless we are content with mere descriptive features concerning its coarse anatomy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" There is the same fear of the terra incognita in literature that there is in nature. The Way of the Gods It was absolutely terra incognita to Armitage, and he gazed open-eyed around him like any country yokel seeing the sights of the city for the first time. By Right of Conquest A Novel The whole subject of vaso-motor paralysis for instance, and of the pathological changes that follow it, is more or less a terra incognita. On Snake-Poison: its Action and its Antidote But beyond the Mississippi still stretched a country which was practically a terra incognita, and which still awaited reclamation from the rule of the savage and the wild beast. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) My mind is no longer what it was to me in my happier days, a sort of terra incognita, without bounds or limits. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative An Englishman of this day must be puzzled to bring back the time when Scotland was so completely a terra incognita to her sister, as that this rude and unlearned caricature could pass. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 For those who number Herbert Spencer among the Anarchists, either do not understand the essence of Anarchism, or else do not understand Spencer's views; or both are to them a terra incognita. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory Even at this time of day much of the English Border is still a kind of terra incognita to the tourist and holiday-maker. In the Border Country The land is a terra incognita to Europeans, and is rich in beans, maize, and wool, which are exported, and in wheat and barley, which are not always permitted to be exported. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. II) It is quite understood that no "terra incognita" exists into which our female travellers would fear to penetrate. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Afterwards, when he knew him to be at Marseilles, as if that was far from France, in the ultima thule or terra incognita of ancient geographers, he would not budge any further. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Often had he contemplated that outline of the terra incognita on which he now trod, and longed for the knowledge he now possessed, which, after its manner, had brought him both good and evil. Cedar Creek From the Shanty to the Settlement Lapland was a terra incognita,—Poland, Hungary, and Bohemia not much better known; yet this clever young Parisian has little to relate beyond a few names, which he generally misspells or misplaces. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 It was from Yarmouth that Wordsworth and Coleridge sailed away to Germany, then almost a terra incognita. East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations Almost the whole of the Alexandrian Archipelago, that great group of eleven hundred wooded islands that forms the southeastern cup-handle of Alaska, was at that time a terra incognita. Alaska Days with John Muir People have hardly any idea now, how, in spite of the East India Company conquering and governing India, India itself remained a terra incognita, unapproachable by the students of England and of Europe. My Autobiography A Fragment Personality was to the monophysites a terra incognita; and it was in large measure their devotion to Aristotle's system that made them deaf to the teaching of the catholic church. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology The terra incognita of future discovery lies enveloped in cloud on the other––an untried region of fogs and darkness. Leading Articles on Various Subjects Besides, the country of Khoten is not the terra incognita which he has depicted. Les Parsis Mr. Seward, in his generalizations, in his ardent expectations, etc., etc., forgets to consider—at least a little—human nature, and, not to speak of history, this terra incognita. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 Had her destination been Canada or Australia, Imogen would have found no difficulty in adjusting her ideas to it, but the United States were a terra incognita. In the High Valley Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series The West is still in a large degree terra incognita. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 There are immense districts of Central and South America, which are yet a perfect terra incognita to the traveller and the antiquarian. Incentives to the Study of the Ancient Period of American History An address, delivered before the New York Historical Society, at its forty-second anniversary, 17th November 1846 The black keys upon the keyboard are a 'terra incognita.' Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression It is for them a terra incognita, as is the moon. Diary from March 4, 1861, to November 12, 1862 To the majority of people, the Balkan States are, even to-day, terra incognita. The Golden Face A Great 'Crook' Romance In 1876, when the Congo basin was still practically terra incognita, Stanley having just left Europe in order to determine the course of the stream, Leopold II founded the "Association Internationale Africaine." Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Having told us of the proud swelling waves of presbyterial government, I asked upon what coast had those waves done any hurt, France, or Scotland, or Holland, or terra incognita? The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) She did not know from how much terror and self-reproach poor Cecily was suffering, nor her multitudinous resolutions against kindly interferences upon terra incognita. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster All past discomfort was forgotten; we were about to set our feet on that terra incognita to most Europeans, viz., A Girl's Ride in Iceland Not only was it utterly terra incognita to me, but, with their manifold features in common, the want and squalor of the East have traits distinct from those of the West. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Surely there is a close parallel between this experience and that of the journeyman moving from the familiar soil of civilianism to the terra incognita of military life. The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2 He has best knowledge of his own home and country who has wandered into a terra incognita, and studied the differences of soil and climate. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 The driver never seems to know the town; even the post-office and the Bridge of Spain are terra incognita to him. The Great White Tribe in Filipinia Yet to the vast majority of people Old Mother Earth abounds in many a terra incognita. Adventures in Many Lands The Beau always regarded the city as a terra incognita. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 You may like to hear something more about that wonderful land, that terra incognita of British Central America. The Story of Nelson also "The Grateful Indian", "The Boatswain's Son" The land is a sort of terra incognita. Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses The poor Africs went back cowed and tearful, and it is probable that they were afterward sent to the far South, that terrible terra incognita to a border slave. Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War At present it is impossible even approximately to estimate the size of that supposed terra incognita. Natural Law in the Spiritual World It is not to be wondered at, therefore, that to our veteran borderer the field of literature should remain a "terra incognita." The Prairie Traveler A Hand-book for Overland Expeditions Four years ago all this region was terra incognita. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866 The Philippine Archipelago was such a terra incognita to the outside world that little was generally known of it save the capital, Manila. The Philippine Islands On the following evening, she herself suggested that the team should take another shot at that utterly fantastic terra incognita of the multiple mind, jolting though it had been. Masters of Space The cañon was at that time a terra incognita to these cattlemen of the Panhandle. Oh, You Tex! The country we now plunged into, as may be guessed, was a terra incognita to me. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn They entered the theatre—a terra incognita to Christopher—and found their way through a chaos of disused dusty scenery. Cruel Barbara Allen From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.) For Washington officials these Islands really constituted a terra incognita. The Philippine Islands When we crossed the Laramie plains I was in, to me, a "terra incognita." Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. 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. The Pioneers It was the north-west cape of New Holland, or Australia, a region then, as even to the present day, almost a terra incognita to Europeans. James Braithwaite, the Supercargo The Story of his Adventures Ashore and Afloat He was forty-three years of age, with a creditable record in the Regular Army, and wide fame as a scientific explorer in the Western mountain ranges, then the terra incognita of the continent. Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 From Lincoln to Garfield, with a Review of the Events Which Led to the Political Revolution of 1860 But you know also how small a strip has as yet been explored of the vast continent of Sanskrit literature, and how much still remains terra incognita. India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge It was the only land subject to sale by the United States, for Kentucky was covered by Virginia grants, Western New York was the property of land companies, and all beyond was a terra incognita. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography. When Mackenzie became ruler of the district, all beyond the lake was terra incognita. The Pioneers The bourne—from which so many travellers never return—bounded by the criminal statutes, is a terra incognita to the average citizen. The Confessions of Artemas Quibble This part of the Villa Camellia was terra incognita to the school. The Jolliest School of All This wadi, it will be remembered, was to us terra incognita. With the British Army in The Holy Land At present Finland is a terra incognita, though fortunately not likely to remain one. Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers A good deal of this country was terra incognita. The Yukon Trail A Tale of the North The country, notwithstanding its early settlement, was a terra incognita. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864 Hitherto they have been but little known, one cause and another have helped to keep Ireland a terra incognita. The Sunny Side of Ireland How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway There is an infinite field yet unexplored—a very terra incognita to even those who pride themselves upon being learned in the mysteries of the soul. The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy No book yet published bears any comparison with this volume in respect of valuable and authentic information relating to the history, geography, topography, climate, natural scenery, inhabitants, and rich resources of this wonderful terra incognita. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 6 Beyond that, all would be a terra incognita, a land unknown. Lectures on Language As Particularly Connected with English Grammar. When General Scott undertook this campaign Florida was a terra incognita. General Scott Outback was terra incognita to the city-bred Australian, but that these men who were coming to offer their lives should walk into the city barefoot could not be thought of. "Over There" with the Australians New York was terra incognita, inhabited by a species who were as foreign to him as if they had dwelt in Mars. The Big-Town Round-Up But South America contains a prodigious number of square miles, and a day's march from the track carries one into terra incognita. About Orchids A Chat I do not know what world he has lived in, but I have lived in three or four; but none of them like his Keats and kangaroo terra incognita. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals Thompson had come to this terra incognita to preach and pray, to save men's souls. Burned Bridges In this attempt they are not successful, but they return with much information regarding China, which until then had been mainly a terra incognita. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 23 of 55 1629-30 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. About ten miles to the east is the coast of the large Island of Gilolo, perhaps the most perfect entomological terra incognita now to be found. Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 It never remained a terra incognita to the former for any length of time. The Haskalah Movement in Russia Then, on the afternoon of the third day, rolling back toward the elevator and the terra incognita which lay beyond, he saw a sign. Love Stories It is a pleasant reflection that this country is no longer the terra incognita in musical matters that it was in Beethoven's time. Beethoven It has been called a terra incognita and a place where no human being could live. Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891 The author is aware there exists a legitimate rhyme for Porringer, but believes a match for governor lies still in the terra incognita of allowable rhythm. Punch, or the London Charivari. Volume 1, July 31, 1841 Old Rabbi Abraham now delighted in conversation and discussion with his grandson, who seemed to him almost like an inhabitant of another world, of the terra incognita of modern knowledge and science. The Haskalah Movement in Russia I use the term "little known" in the sense that while they are well enough known to the handful of Indians and rubber-workers yet they are "terra incognita" to the outside world. In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians Free Teutons you should hardly have found except in Scandinavia; probably only in southern Sweden: for further north, and in most of Norway, you soon came to ice and the Lapps and terra incognita. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 "Perhaps the laws of that terra incognita to which he goes forbid the duello." Sir Mortimer These dotted lines represent a vast terra incognita covering, practically, the whole of the ground recently opened up. The Excavations of Roman Baths at Bath She had sat all evening mute in her corner, for Miss Leaf would not send her away into the terra incognita of a London hotel. Mistress and Maid Lower California, once sought and guarded for her ores and her jewels, now a veritable terra incognita, slumbering, unnoticed, at the feet of her courted child, the great State of California. The California Birthday Book Ah! there," said Baron de Vries, "you enter upon a terra incognita. Jason It was a period, also, at that time almost a terra incognita in history. Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete One distinguished medico's discovery of the terra incognita of the stomach has netted him, I am sure, a princely fortune. The "Goldfish" It was evident, however, that to Miss Wildmere a mountain was a terra incognita. A Young Girl's Wooing The interior of Northern Sumatra seems to remain a terra incognita, and even with the coast we are far less familiar than our ancestors were 250 years ago. The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 It was long a terra incognita, but it is now being explored in all directions, and attempts are everywhere made to bring it within the circuit of civilisation. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge We were now once more stepping out over a terra incognita; and though no alpine features greeted our eyes as they wandered eagerly over the vast level, all was clothed with the charm of novelty. Discoveries in Australia, Volume 2 Discoveries in Australia; with an Account of the Coasts and Rivers Explored and Surveyed During the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, in The Years 1837-38-39-40-41-42-43. By Command of the Lords Commissioners Of the Admiralty. Also a Narrative of Captain Owen Stanley's Visits To the Islands in the Arafura Sea He found at Almack's his most romantic scene, at Ranelagh his terra incognita, in the gardens of Versailles his ideal of the charming and picturesque. The Castle Inn It was hard for him to find a terra incognita of thought into which she had not made some slight explorations. A Young Girl's Wooing But he would have been wiser not to have adduced the argument that Ireland was a terra incognita. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 Hibernia, the classical name for Ireland, which to the ancient world was in the main a terra incognita. The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge The governor had hoped the Reef, so accessible on every side by means of canoes, would, for years at least, continue to be a terra incognita to the savages. The Crater They belong largely to that terra incognita, the dark back-ground of human consciousness, where are the primal forces of the soul and the mustering-place of good and evil. The Life and Letters of Elizabeth Prentiss The West was terra incognita to Joel, and he found much to interest and puzzle him. The Half-Back It had been pleasant enough, I mean, O.K., she wrote in her journal, but men's bodies were basically terra incognita. Joe Burke's Last Stand Beyond the place where we slept last night, the country is completely terra incognita, for it was there that Captain Stokes turned back. The Voyage of the Beagle It is an undisputed fact that there are hundreds upon hundreds of square miles of terra incognita, lying in this corner of Washington Territory. The Lost City For Senor Buck Johnson lived just north of that terra incognita filled with the mystery of a double chance of death from man or the flaming desert known as the Mexican border. Arizona Nights I was ere in a terra incognita, and an unknown place had always some interest for me; moreover, I had a desire to know whither all this crowd was going, and for what purpose. Lavengro; the Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest There is always and must be in every crime a terra incognita which, unless we could enter into the very soul of a man, we cannot hope to reach. A Book of Remarkable Criminals At the end of 1748 he left France on an exploring expedition to Senegal, which from the unhealthiness of its climate was a terra incognita to naturalists. The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 "I can understand it better, now, and this is—still is the terra incognita of which I have dreamed so long!" The Lost City The region was a terra incognita to one and all. The Roof of France He had begun to learn that regions he had thought wholesome, productive portions of his world, were a terra incognita of swamps and sandy hills, haunted with creeping and stinging things. There & Back Mr. Henley purchased his ticket, resolved to take the first train for this terra incognita of Virginia. The Ghost of Guir House The region traversed by these explorers is so well known today that it is hard to realize what a terra incognita it was but a short time since. The Life of Kit Carson Hunter, Trapper, Guide, Indian Agent and Colonel U.S.A. More to take his thoughts away from that loss than through actual curiosity in the subject offered by way of substitute, Bruno asked for further light upon the so-called terra incognita. The Lost City But it was a terra incognita, clothed with a terror such as no array of: enemies could wear, and they preferred to keep at a goodly distance from it. The Huge Hunter Or, the Steam Man of the Prairies The whole interior of Dutch, French and Portuguese Guiana is a terra incognita; and the astronomical geography of those countries has scarcely made any progress during the space of thirty years. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 I had, up to the time of my visit, often wondered that, with India so near, Baluchistán should have been so long allowed to remain the terra incognita it is. A Ride to India across Persia and Baluchistán The travels, to which I alluded this morning, would not bind up with "Parry," since a moderate duodecimo would contain the adventures of a certain Mr. Aylmer Papillon in a terra incognita. A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 Then you really reckon—" "For one thing, my lad, we are now fairly entered upon a terra incognita, so far as our own race is concerned. The Lost City She, of all lands, is the terra incognita, the unknown land; till quite lately she was more—she was the undiscovered, the unsuspected land. Prince Zaleski Most of it, he declared was a terra incognita, being utterly unknown land. The Aeroplane Boys on the Wing Aeroplane Chums in the Tropics The interior of Russia is almost wholly unknown in the West; until a few years back it was as much of a terra incognita as Central Africa. The War and Democracy I have had a great desire to know her, I confess, but she is still like the bottome of the map, terra incognita. A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 It is the terra incognita of the chart-makers, and nobody knows as yet whether behind is hidden land or water for a distance of 6 degrees over impassable heaps of ice to the North Pole. Topsy-Turvy The Senate had given him unlimited power, for five years, over Gaul,--then a terra incognita,--an indefinite country, comprising the modern States of France, Holland, Switzerland, Belgium, and a part of Germany. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 04 Imperial Antiquity If we shall find a cathedral roofed! as if we were going to a terra incognita; when every thing that is at Icolmkill is so well known. Life of Johnson, Volume 5 Tour to the Hebrides (1773) and Journey into North Wales (1774) No living man's imagination had yet dreamed of the transformation of this terra incognita into one of the world's great granaries. Man Size However, the episode, which is treated in these lectures, is, as he says, "terra incognita" not only in England, but even in the United States. The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution All the Abyssinian discoverers had traversed the Dankali and other northern tribes: the land of the Somal was still a terra incognita. First Footsteps in East Africa It was rather a terra incognita, regarded with a sort of reverential ignorance by the average American tourist. Mark Twain It was to the peaceful settler who was seeking a home, a terra incognita, an unknown land. Woman on the American Frontier A Valuable and Authentic History of the Heroism, Adventures, Privations, Captivities, Trials, and Noble Lives and Deaths of the "Pioneer Mothers of the Republic" The materials of which they were composed were mostly terra incognita to us, but some of them tasted very nice. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan The vagueness of habitat simply means that all south of the Han and Yang-tsz was terra incognita to China proper. Ancient China Simplified From such a terra incognita, at length unveiled to eyes so discerning, I anticipate strange tidings. Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence As if we were going to a terra incognita; when every thing that is at Icolmkill is so well known. The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. Beyond the Coast Range lies a "terra incognita." The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance The beautiful and lonely wilds of the Glenkens, in central Galloway, where traditions yet linger, were, unluckily, terra incognita to Scott. Guy Mannering — Complete They learned something of the character of the region heretofore regarded as a veritable terra incognita. The Great Salt Lake Trail The world is a terra incognita to you yet, and your opinions of life are still to be formed. An Original Belle But is not each generation a terra incognita to the last? The Long Vacation In the long, idle hours of camp chat, he has laughingly pledged he would bring a band of sable retainers to this western terra incognita. The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance Not that that was of the least benefit to us any more than if we had been at sea; but it gave us the feeling that we were not in an absolutely terra incognita. Spinifex and Sand On the terra incognita there have appeared large cities and towns, whose genesis is a marvel in the history of nations. The Great Salt Lake Trail The world in which she lived was a terra incognita to them. The Hand but Not the Heart or, The Life-Trials of Jessie Loring And so they stood towards each other as strangers; and the Allen house remained, as from the beginning, to most people a terra incognita. The Allen House The discovery of this girl, buried six hundred miles in a wilderness that was almost a terra incognita to the white man, was sufficient to bewilder him. God's Country—And the Woman One terra incognita being seen to be faulty, every other terra incognita would be suspected. Lombard Street : a description of the money market Notwithstanding these the canyons remain almost terra incognita for each new navigator. The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons In this trackless, uncharted terra incognita of the passions, it is always the woman who steps out to lead the way. The Twins of Table Mountain I presume, from the collection of Brydges and Anderson, Chiloe is pretty well-known, and southward begins a terra incognita. More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 All beyond, as before remarked, is terra incognita to the inhabitants of Santarem. The Naturalist on the River Amazons He dreaded to disturb the delicate adjustment of their relationship; the terra incognita of a young girl's mind daunted him. The Street of Seven Stars He waved his hand vaguely in the direction of the north-east, where stretched a terra incognita into which vastness few men have strayed and fewer emerged. The Faith of Men But the whole subject of comparative mythology seems to be terra incognita to Mr. Gladstone. Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology There was no path beyond this campo; in fact, all beyond is terra incognita to the inhabitants of Villa Nova. The Naturalist on the River Amazons |
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