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- adjective Situated on the same side of the
Atlantic Ocean .
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Examples
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But turtle, as embracing all chelonians, or, as liberal shepherds call it, "turkle," is unquestionably Cisatlantic.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various
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We have spoken warmly of this volume, for it has both interested and instructed us, and because we consider it one of the few thoroughly creditable productions of Cisatlantic scholarship.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 Various
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Cisatlantic beverage, called by the Chinese epithet of tea, -- and went, immediately after, to a prayer-meeting.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various
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Let us give moral aid and comfort to the campaign, Cisatlantic and
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 23, February, 1873 Various
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Cisatlantic victims of baking-powders and salæratus how to make Vienna bread.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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This smaller skirmish rather turns our thoughts to Cisatlantic associations; its date suggests Bunker's Hill, -- and its circumstances, Lexington.
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Well, I am glad you are to think in earnest in Scotland of our Cisatlantic claims.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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The two voices were pitched in an unforgotten key, and equally native to our Cisatlantic air; they seemed to fall upon the muffled medium of surrounding parlance as the rattle of pease on the face of a drum.
A passionate pilgrim 1875
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The power that bears the tides of excited population up and down our streets, and rocks the world of commerce, and thrills all nations, Transatlantic and Cisatlantic, is -- _clothes_.
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The careful reader will note that, in the list which I have prepared, I have included the names of several Cisatlantic societies to which a place is not commonly assigned in processions of this nature.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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