Whenever the tide was high, the isthmus nearly disappeared. From LearnThat.org.
On the other side of the isthmus is a sandy beach facing the open ocean. From Wordnik.com. [Tenacatita: hidden jewel] Reference
The Central American isthmus is a region of great contrasts, but also of heartening unison. From Wordnik.com. [Oscar Arias Sánchez - Nobel Lecture] Reference
I picked up the book, looked at the attractive cover, and thought, wow, 350 pages of history about the isthmus is more than I want to read. From Wordnik.com. [The Isthmus: Stories from Mexico's Past, 1495-1995 by Bruce Stores] Reference
That part of her territory known as the isthmus of. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development] Reference
Standing on an isthmus, which is washed on one side by the Atlantic. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in North America, From Modern Writers With Remarks and Observations; Exhibiting a Connected View of the Geography and Present State of that Quarter of the Globe] Reference
This issue of rezoning the isthmus is a first step towards these goals. From Wordnik.com. [OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media'] Reference
The isthmus is the highway between the spinal cord and the higher nerve centres. From Wordnik.com. [Common Diseases of Farm Animals] Reference
They are joined together by a narrow strip of land called the isthmus of Darien. From Wordnik.com. [The geographical reader : for the Dixie children,] Reference
The aperture by which the mouth communicates with the pharynx is called the isthmus faucium. From Wordnik.com. [XI. Splanchnology. 2b. The Fauces] Reference
Apparently leading across the head of the island from the town toward the isthmus was the "old Greate Road.". From Wordnik.com. [Virginia: the Old Dominion] Reference
Near the tip of the isthmus was a reasonably high hill and growing on the hill were several good-sized trees. From Wordnik.com. [Elric of Melnibone]
Even this is not the narrowest part of the isthmus, which is less than seventy miles across from Cumberland to Brownsville. From Wordnik.com. [Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray] Reference
The crossing of the isthmus was a terrible experience, owing to the lack of proper provision for it and to an epidemic of cholera. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses S. Grant] Reference
In other words, it is attached by a thin strip of land known as the 'isthmus' correctly geographically defined. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Of Gibraltar - A Heaven On Earth] Reference
I would never have thought to use 'isthmus' to rhyme with 'Christmas'. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
Chersonese (Thracian), the size of its isthmus, V. xv. From Wordnik.com. [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference
The predatory exuberance of Teddy Roosevelt's "I took the isthmus!". From Wordnik.com. [Divorce, American Style] Reference
Ptolemy divides it by the Red Sea and isthmus of the desert of Arabia. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Incas] Reference
A narrow isthmus and a lofty bridge connect the island with the adjacent continent. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
This isthmus is the dam which secures the harbour of Kingston from the inroads of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Sailor of King George] Reference
Though it's not really an isle, but an isthmus, its waist pinched where it joins the mainland. From Wordnik.com. [Let's move to Cromarty and the Black Isle, Ross-shire] Reference
You will cross a narrow isthmus that connects the main island with smaller Sant'Antioco island. From Wordnik.com. [Enjoy the Ride] Reference
Before the works of destruction commenced a narrow isthmus connected Great Britain with the Continent. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896] Reference
Gulf, but it does not, as in other places where the sea enters the mainland, form an isthmus at its end. From Wordnik.com. [Procopius History of the Wars, Books V. and VI.] Reference
Lake above lake -- the division, the isthmus between, not wider than the breadth of your India shawl, my lady!. From Wordnik.com. [Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses] Reference
Arcadia, crossed over the isthmus to Marathon in Attica and devastated the country there as formerly on the island of Crete. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Tales of Fact and Fancy Myths and Legends of the Nations of the World Retold for Boys and Girls] Reference
Geographic note: strategic location on eastern end of isthmus forming land bridge connecting North and South America; controls. From Wordnik.com. [The 1996 CIA Factbook] Reference
Geography - note: strategic location on eastern end of isthmus forming land bridge connecting North and South America; controls. From Wordnik.com. [The 2001 CIA World Factbook] Reference
Geography -- note: strategic location on eastern end of isthmus forming land bridge connecting North and South America; controls. From Wordnik.com. [The 1999 CIA Factbook] Reference
Balboa after crossing the isthmus of Darien he had reached Panama on the South Sea, where he heard of a great nation far to the south. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
Tehuantepec isthmus is said, by good judges, to rival that of Cuba, and commands, in the capital, equal prices with the far-famed Havana. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
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