Dark Continent
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Zoo animals from New York meet others of their species for the first time after crash-landing on the Dark Continent.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 29, 2019
Was it some kind of transplanting of Manifest Destiny from the US west to the so-called Dark Continent?
From The Guardian • Jul. 6, 2017
Mazower is professor of history at Columbia and author of Dark Continent, the acclaimed study of the forces that shaped 20th century Europe.
From The Guardian • Dec. 1, 2016
Coming from S�kou Tour�, it was startling indeed, for Guinea's boss is the deep-dyed Marxist who gave the Communists their first foothold on the Dark Continent.
From Time Magazine Archive
How grateful this renewed spot on the edge of the Dark Continent would be to the weary and battle-dimmed vision of Wilberforce, Sharp, and other friends of the colony!
From History of the Negro Race in America From 1619 to 1880. Vol 1 Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens by Williams, George Washington
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