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Definition of Great divide
1. Noun. That part of the continental divide formed by the Rocky Mountains in the United States.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Divide
Literary usage of Great divide
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"THE great divide. SHE stepped out of the Imperial Palace into a garden full of
roses and mignonette. She never looked back at the Imperial Palace. ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"CHAPTER VII MOUNTAIN AND DESERT I. THE great divide WEST of the Great Plains,
... the long wall of the Rocky- Mountains — the great divide of North America. ..."
3. The British and American Drama of To-day: Outlines for Their Study by Barrett Harper Clark (1921)
"The great divide " is a psychological character- study with a Western background
during part of the action, and its very antithesis—New England—for the rest ..."
4. The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research: The Actual by Josephus Nelson Larned, Augustus Hunt Shearer (1922)
"... to its natural boundaries, the great divide at separates what is now the
Chinese Empire orn the Russian dominions in Western and orthern Asia. ..."
5. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"XXXIV Across the great divide; and how the Man Gring showed me the Garments of the
... great divide ..."
6. History of the United States by Matthew Page Andrews (1914)
"They ascended the Missouri River to its source, crossed the great divide, and
descended the Columbia to the Pacific Ocean, claiming the Oregon country, ..."
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