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But this would never have done for a transpontine audience Yakutsk (which was founded in 1633 by the Cossack Beketoff) presents, at a distance, a rather imposing appearance, quickly dispelled on closer acquaintance.— From Paris to New York by Land
She was, for instance, just a little too detached in the recital of that story when playing for time by the bad Baron's fireside Mr. SYDNEY VALENTINE, having happily come by an early death in another theatre, is able to present us a lifelike portrait of a really remorseless policeman in our third Act, condemning folk to Siberia with all the arbitrary despatch of the Red Queen On the whole, then, distinctly good of its kind--transpontine matter with the St. James's form T OUR SOUVENIR UNIT No," said the Canadian slowly, "organization isn't everything.— Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, September 19, 1917
Thou sawest thy America, thy lifetask, and didst charge to cover like the transpontine bison.— Ulysses
The Newspaper Press, that great reflector of nationalities, that prime expression of popular taste, too often of an йcњurant vulgarity, personal beyond all bounds of common decency, sensational as a transpontine drama, is American; America is the greatest nation upon earth's face, ergo the daily sheet is setting-up the standard of English speech and forming the language of the Future, good and too good for all the world.— Arabian nights. English
But this would never have done for a transpontine audience.— From Paris to New York by Land

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