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
She has caught tiger fish in the Chobe River in Bechuanaland and fat, Dark Continent catfish in Southern Rhodesia's Lake Mcllwaine.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seems but a short time since we pored interestedly over the pages of Mr. Stanley's "Through the Dark Continent," which described the exploration of the Congo in 1876-7, from Nyongwe to the Atlantic Ocean.
From The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3 by Various
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