He set sail from England in 1842 - it took him six months by sailing ship to reach the antipodes. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
How at the antipodes was the picture he was seeing!. From Wordnik.com. [The Man from the Bitter Roots] Reference
There was, however, considerable tension over any idea that the lands on the opposite ends of the earth otherwise known as antipodes could be inhabited by people. From Wordnik.com. [Christians With Closed Hearts And Minds] Reference
From the artics, from the tropics, from the dim antipodes. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference
His arm may reach even to the antipodes to strike you there. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Australia is an El Dorado -- the antipodes a celestial region. From Wordnik.com. [Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870] Reference
They have, too, their antipodes -- it is night here and sunshine there. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference
The true character of the German theatre is the very antipodes to this. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3] Reference
Brigham, is the latter's equal in years, but in all things else his antipodes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864] Reference
She drove four-in-hand, and was a dead shot -- the very antipodes of sentiment. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851] Reference
"A privilege, Sir Charles, to meet one we have heard of so often, in the antipodes.". From Wordnik.com. [Half A Chance] Reference
Our friends from the antipodes landed with us, and remained some days before reembarking for home. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
Who wants to be all the time painfully conceiving of the antipodes walking like flies on the ceiling?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 42, April, 1861] Reference
They have been seen to be almost the exact antipodes of that of the consumptive district before named. From Wordnik.com. [Minnesota; Its Character and Climate Likewise Sketches of Other Resorts Favorable to Invalids; Together With Copious Notes on Health; Also Hints to Tourists and Emigrants.] Reference
If there are people on the earth who are our antipodes, it should be remembered that we are theirs also. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
We stared at each other in silence for ten seconds, each wishing himself or his interlocutor at the antipodes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
We know that the Englishman is true to his given word, and that even in the antipodes he never changes his habits. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index] Reference
The Dr. 's assumptions being the antipodes of truth, they cannot furnish a conclusion that is warranted by the truth. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
In 1519 Magellan made his famous voyage and proved the earth to be round and that men actually lived in the antipodes. From Wordnik.com. [The Necessity of Atheism] Reference
Once again he felt that Schiller and he were 'spiritual antipodes, removed from each other by more than an earth diameter'. From Wordnik.com. [Man or Matter] Reference
Englishmen who, across a narrow channel, can see their own country, and those who, at its antipodes look upon the Pacific Ocean. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 401, November 28, 1829] Reference
Moreover, illness is my very antipodes, -- its nearness is invasion, -- we are utterly antipathetic, -- it disgusts and repels me. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860] Reference
Directly opposed to this idea is the organization of the Southern confederacy -- the essential and substantial antipodes of our system. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It introduces the antipodes to each other, and makes it possible for far-sundered groups to unite even internationally for a good cause. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Egypt, China, Brazil, Chili, Venezuela, and that strange political cousin of ours at the antipodes, begotten and sturdily nurtured by the. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876] Reference
My antipodes in looks, for I was short and fair; my hair was straight and black like his, but my eyes were blue, and my mouth wide and full. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 31, May, 1860] Reference
The telegraph is too quick for the calendar; you may read in your evening paper a dispatch from the antipodes with a date of the following day. From Wordnik.com. [Standard Selections A Collection and Adaptation of Superior Productions From Best Authors For Use in Class Room and on the Platform] Reference
In their Brand-like racial frame of mind, the Jews could never stop midway between the two antipodes of roving world-citizenry and hidebound mono-patriotism. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Their tables were piled with newspapers from every corner of the kingdom, and they seemed to have the deaths and marriages of the antipodes at their fingers 'ends. From Wordnik.com. [The "Ladies of Llangollen" as Sketched by Many Hands; with Notices of Other Objects of Interest in "That Sweetest of Vales"] Reference
Isabel, the very antipodes of her husband, was more to their liking, and throughout the contests that ensued between them, the citizens steadily supported her cause. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume I] Reference
Once it was a question whether the United States could enforce its law as far away as western Pennsylvania; now Great Britain bears unquestioned sway over the antipodes. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
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