Booth was driven by Kean's superiority to become a hero to "transpontine audiences.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866] Reference

A third transpontine house, the Royal Coburg (still with us as the Old Vic) was addedlater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Projections of puppet theatre] Reference

He used to talk about "transpontine utterances" and "lapidiary prose" and make me go to the dictionary to look the words up if I said I didn't understand them.    From Wordnik.com.  [languagehat.com: BEAT THE JUDGE.] Reference

You're the most transpontine person I ever saw in my life. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Explorer] Reference

Mayfair or St. James's-street into some dingy transpontine hiding-place.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds of Prey] Reference

And he strode along with the air of the heavy man in a transpontine melodrama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series] Reference

A transpontine drudge! whose lips are fresh from the coalman's and the butcher's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merely Mary Ann] Reference

Godollo, the idea of the transpontine emigration had proved to be, on the whole, a bad one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lesser Bourgeoisie] Reference

The arable infants seem to gravitate towards the transpontine districts south of the Thames.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference

Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

The transpontine theatre, even the penny gaff of the New Cut, was not quite unfamiliar with the face of the poet-painter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Familiar Faces] Reference

He came on to the scene suddenly and with much uproar, in a way that would have made his fortune in a transpontine drama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in West Africa] Reference

It is here the same in the melodrama of the transpontine theatre as in the tragedies of the Greek dramatists and Shakespeare.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference

In point of fact, I had carefully studied in the transpontine theatres that form of melodramatic mediaeval sword-play known as "two up and two down.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Condensed Novels: New Burlesques] Reference

When he arrived at Pillingshot's seat and found it empty, an expression passed over his face like unto that of the baffled villain in transpontine melodrama.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of St. Austin's] Reference

Among the best women of Brooklyn and of yonder transpontine city are those who allowed the bloom of life to pass away while they were caring for their parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wedding Ring A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those Contemplating Matrimony] Reference

As for sailors it is true, I admit, and the bad custom seems to involve that constant 'hitching up' of the lower garments which, however popular in transpontine dramas, cannot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellanies] Reference

He liked to pose in secret as a sort of transpontine schemer; that flattered his self-importance; but his ambition did not seriously go beyond making trouble in a legitimate way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

There was nothing left but to retreat against the railing, and with my back turned to the street, pretend to be admiring the barges on the river or the chimneys of transpontine London.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dynamiter] Reference

Gauthier, here known as Violetta, is hardly an ideal subject for a libretto, and it says much for Verdi's versatility that, after his excursions into transpontine melodrama, he was able to treat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference

I mean the covered area at the New York end of Brooklyn Bridge where the transpontine electric cars, in an incessant stream, swoop down the curves of the bridge and sweep round on their return journey.    From Wordnik.com.  [America To-day, Observations and Reflections] Reference

'Ruddigore' is a burlesque of transpontine melodrama, and a very good burlesque too; but the Savoy audience knew next to nothing about transpontine melodrama, and so the satire was missed and the piece fell flat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.] Reference

He would have time to get back before half-past one to a restaurant he had made a mental note of near the Bank, and still to allow the cabby to drive on a bit through the transpontine and interesting regions of Rotherhithe and Cherry Garden Pier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Somehow Good] Reference

There it is -- a radical fact of human nature -- as radical as any reading of trait or determination of character presented -- seen in the Greek drama as well as in Shakespeare and the great Elizabethan dramatists, and in the drama-transpontine and others of to-day.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference

"'Then make ready to die,' said the herald, for all the world like the villain of a transpontine piece, and majestically stalked back to the soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maiwa's Revenge] Reference

The man who gives away a woman's confidence, even when she avows the poisoning of her husband and the strangulation of her babes, is a transpontine villain. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Belovéd Vagabond] Reference

I have it bound in morocco with some more of Douglas Jerrold’s early transpontine plays, and some Æschylean dramas by Mr. Fitzball.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Familiar Faces] Reference

A silly transpontine appearance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Police at the Funeral]

'I never heard anything so transpontine.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Explorer] Reference

Folco's transpontine hospitality.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God of Love] Reference