isthmus

• I'll trot west to the isthmus, then south to Castle Roogna. —  Ogre Ogre
• I think these cisterns originally supplied Tyre with water; I traced the remains of an aqueduct from them nearly to the walls but better than half way across the isthmus, so that I think they are of a later date than the time of Solomon because the aqueduct could not be built over the isthmus before the isthmus was made. —  Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.
• But it's a long way to the isthmus, and I don't think we want to make another trip like the one down the coast; we might never get there. —  Centaur Aisle
• This issue of rezoning the isthmus is a first step towards these goals. —  OlyBlog - 'We Are the Media'
• The large double bay is protected from the southwest by a broad peninsula joined to the mainland by a very narrow isthmus, and thus opens southeastward to the Mediterranean. —  The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.)

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