The transmontane section of the state. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
In that lond, ne in many othere bezonde that, no man may see the sterre transmontane, that is clept the sterre of the see, that is unmevable, and that is toward the northe, that we clepen the lode sterre. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I] Reference
But at that time they inhabited only a small portion of the country and had not obtained any transmontane sovereignty. From Wordnik.com. [Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C. 69-44).] Reference
The transmontane people, the people of the Valley and some of those of the Piedmont were arrayed against the aristocratic land owners of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
The lands in the transmontane country had risen to a value of only fifteen million dollars less than the cash value of the lands east of the Blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921] Reference
After relating their regard for women, the discourses of their old men, and their wars against a transmontane people, Montaigne comes to their cannibalism. From Wordnik.com. [PRIMITIVISM] Reference
Antartyk, thei ben streghte, feet azen feet of hem, that dwellen undre the transmontane; als wel as wee and thei that dwellyn undre us, ben feet azenst feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference
The entire transmontane country is well adapted to stock-raising. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
For twenty years the politics of this transmontane country centered about the. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
There had always been a disparity between the people of these transmontane counties and the tide-water region. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics] Reference
It was known as the Ohio Land Company and derived its transmontane rights through George II from John Cabot, an. From Wordnik.com. [The French in the Heart of America] Reference
It is spoken of as one of the finest counties in the future in the transmontane region, when Rail Roads penetrate it. From Wordnik.com. [A Guide to Capitalists and Emigrants: Being a Statistical and Descriptive Account of the Several Counties of the State of North Carolina, United States of America; Together with Letters of Prominent Citizens of the State in Relation to the Soil, Climate, Productions, Minerals, &C., and an Account of the Swamp Lands of the State] Reference
The lawyers concerned with the settlement of the land disputes were men of the highest repute in the transmontane country. From Wordnik.com. [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference
It lies on the northeastern end of the long, narrow, elevated transmontane plateau, and has an average elevation of not less than 2,800 feet. From Wordnik.com. [North Carolina and its Resources.] Reference
Robertson and his associates now found themselves and the transmontane region which they represented flung bodily into the arms of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790] Reference
Memory foam pillow top were transmontane with curtained whisky and greed than any pyrolignic sumptuosity damnatory in the aortic maimed and a uncannily. From Wordnik.com. [Rational Review] Reference
In arid regions these piedmont roads are an unfailing feature, but their towns shrink to rural settlements, except at the junction of transmontane routes. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
They therefore tend to concentrate population and commerce wherever a good harbor coincides with the outlet of a transmontane route, as in Genoa and Bombay. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
And to the shame of North Carolina be it said, that the first notice and the first patronage of her lovely transmontane section, should have come from another State. From Wordnik.com. [Mountain Scenery. The Scenery of the Mountains of Western North Carolina and Northwestern South Carolina.] Reference
In a word, are latter day freebooters of our Western Wilderness playing the same game in the great transmontane domain as the old-time pirates played on the high seas?. From Wordnik.com. [The Freebooters of the Wilderness] Reference
Piedmont cities draw their support from plain, mountain and transmontane region, relying chiefly on the fertile soil of the level country to feed their large populations. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
They flourish in proportion to their local resources, in which mineral wealth is particularly important, and to the number and practicability of their transmontane connections. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
At the foot of the final ascent to the pass, where often the carriage road ends and where mule-path or foot-trail begins, is located a settlement that lives largely by the transmontane travel. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
Meanwhile the hardiest joined the transmontane migration, and in the decade after the opening of the Erie Canal (1830-40) the whole northern edge of the valley takes color of New England conquest. From Wordnik.com. [The French in the Heart of America] Reference
For zee wyten welle, that thei that ben toward the Antartyk, thei ben streghte, feet azen feet of hem, that dwellen undre the transmontane; als wel as wee and thei that dwellyn undre us, ben feet azenst feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 08 Asia, Part I] Reference
Among the numerous advantages bestowed on Virginia by a bountiful Providence, there are perhaps none more important than the salubrity of climate and rich profusion of mineral waters of its transmontane territory. From Wordnik.com. [The mineral springs of western Virginia] Reference
Fort Vancouver, ninety miles inland from the sea on the Columbia, was the capital of this transmontane kingdom, and yearly till 1846 the fur brigades set out from Fort Vancouver two or three hundred strong by pack horse and canoe. From Wordnik.com. [Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom] Reference
His long absence had vexed her: she in the secrecy of her own heart had felt a craving for a change of scene -- and she naturally suspected that it was to gratify a similar want that Fernand had undertaken the transmontane journey. From Wordnik.com. [Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf] Reference
The isolation of the transmontane settlements, and the special conditions and doctrines of the Revolutionary era during which they were formed, make a natural distinction between the period of which I am to speak and the later extension of the West. From Wordnik.com. [The Frontier in American History] Reference
The son of the pedagogue took the honors of his class, and has since been enabled to rejoice as the president of a transmontane university; and our hero was, in turn, duly prepared for matriculation beneath the academic evergreens of his own neighborhood. From Wordnik.com. [Ups and Downs in the Life of a Distressed Gentleman] Reference
"We shall continue to outstrip those counties (the transmontane region whose specialty is 'bright yellow') in the production of sweet waxy fillers. From Wordnik.com. [A Sketch of the Tobacco Interests In North Carolina. Being an Account of the Culture, Handling and Manufacture of the Staple; Together with Some Information Respecting the Principal Farmers, Manufacturing Establishments and Warehouses; with Statistics Exhibiting the Growth of Tobacco in the Western Counties, and Also in the Other Tobacco Producing Regions of the State, as Shown By Comparison of the Crop of 1880 with Those of Preceding Years] Reference
1812, it was along this natural transmontane highway that supplies were forwarded to the remote frontier, to support Perry's fight for control of the Great Lakes. From Wordnik.com. [Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography] Reference
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