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Definition of Mainlands
1. mainland [n] - See also: mainland
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mainlands
Literary usage of Mainlands
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Forgotten Empire (Vijayanagar): (Vijayanagar) a Contribution to the by Robert Sewell, Fernão Nunes, Domingos Paes (1900)
"... de Figueiredo—Political effects of the Hindu victory, and the events that
followed it—The mainlands of Goa. I SHALL ask my readers to turn for an ..."
2. The Republic of El Salvador Against the Republic of Nicaragua: Opinion and by Corte de Justicia Centroamericana, El Salvador, Nicaragua (1917)
"... adjacent to the coasts of their mainlands and islands respectively, and in
which they have exercised, and may exercise, their exclusive sovereignty? ..."
3. Old England: Her Story Mirrored in Her Scenes by Walter Shaw Sparrow (1908)
"... like that of Richmond, Yorkshire, has shown us a bridge connecting the life
of a little northern town with the mainlands of English history. ..."
4. European Treaties Bearing on the History of the United States and Its by Frances Gardiner Davenport, Charles Oscar Paullin (1917)
"With this proviso however that none of the islands and mainlands, ... who may be
in actual possession of said islands and mainlands prior to the said ..."
5. The New Haven Convention of 1778: The Boundary Line Between Connecticut and by Simeon Eben Baldwin, New Haven Colony Historical Society (1882)
"... of and within all the breadth aforesaid, throughout the mainlands there, from
the Western ocean to the South Sea, .... and also all the islands lying in ..."
6. Proceedings of the National Convention by American Board of Transportation and Commerce (1874)
"... but with the coterminous State of Mexico, the islands, mainlands, and both
sides of this continent, as far as Rio Janeiro, Buenos Ayres and Valparaiso. ..."
7. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803: Explorations by Early Navigators by Emma Helen Blair, James Alexander Robertson, Edward Gaylord Bourne (1903)
"With this proviso however that none of the islands and mainlands found and to be
found, discovered and to be discovered beyond that said line towards the ..."
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