isthmus
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Roosevelt was intrigued by the military and commercial possibilities of a canal across the isthmus, cutting 8,000 miles off a New York-San Francisco voyage.
From Barron's ● Jan. 18, 2026
Paterson persuaded the Scottish parliament to establish a new enterprise based on England’s East India Company to found a Scottish colony on the narrow isthmus joining North and South America.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 30, 2025
“Even though I am not muxe from the isthmus, for me the word implies respect and tolerance,” said Lía Maritza Sánchez, 51, an L.A.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
The Chonhar bridge hit overnight is one of just a handful of access roads to Crimea, which is linked to the Ukrainian mainland by a narrow isthmus.
From Reuters ● Jun. 22, 2023
Brannon asked, as a smile began to build on the spartan isthmus around his mouth.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
The Crimean Peninsula extends south from Ukraine’s mainland, with road connections on two isthmuses, one of which is less than 1 mile wide, and by a bridge from a narrow spit.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 17, 2023
These two isthmuses in the eastern and western hemispheres have some obvious features in common.
From The Panama Canal A history and description of the enterprise by J. Saxon Mills
The natural route lay obviously through the Caribbean, across some one of the isthmuses, and up the Pacific coast.
From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Carl Russell Fish
The substances washed down by rain-waters form by their accumulation new bars, isthmuses of deposited earth, and points of division that did not before exist.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Alexander von Humboldt
In the first place it was agreed that any canal to be constructed over any of the isthmuses was to be absolutely neutral, in time of war as well as of peace.
From The Path of Empire; a chronicle of the United States as a world power by Carl Russell Fish
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