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Example sentences for "atlas"

  • Whatever the indigenous Berber of the Atlas may be, the northern Moor has never been a mere barbarian, and Spain owes much to his culture and industry.

  • Then you can make use of all your strength, and your dream of producing an Atlas such as the world has not seen--your beautiful dream-will become a reality!

  • Where is the Crystal Egg that was sent King Atlas then?

  • In this sense they are called daughters of Atlas and Hesperis, the western winds being cooled by the snow of Atlas.

  • She is the daughter of Atlas and the Sea (Atlas, the sustainer of heaven, and the Sea, the disturber of the Earth).

  • How was I dismayed and confounded on inspecting the shelves to perceive that the atlas was gone.

  • Was I to speak and act as if this atlas had escaped my attention or not?

  • He wanted to have a medal made, with Atlas bearing the world upon his shoulders, and applied to Michel Agnolo for a design.

  • In Orca generally four or five cervical vertebrae are ankylosed as in the cachelots, but in the two species of Orcella only the atlas and axis are joined.

  • The work is accompanied by several charts which must have been drawn by the well-known cartographer Pietro Vesconte in 1320, since an atlas bearing his name has been found in the Vatican with charts that completely correspond.

  • Illustration: The north-western portion of the mappamundi in the Medicean Marine Atlas (1351).

  • Claudius Clavus's task must have been to supplement the newly discovered atlas of Ptolemy by what he knew of the North; and to this end his maps were drawn, either by himself or by a professional draughtsman in Italy from his instructions.

  • Illustration: The north-western portion of the map of Europe in Andrea Bianco's atlas of 1436.

  • Lo Bianco's round mappamundi, in his atlas of 1436, is connected with the compass-charts of that time.

  • Illustration: Scandinavia on the map of Europe in the Medici Atlas (of 1351).

  • The map of the world in the Medici atlas is drawn in the same way as the compass-charts.

  • A copy of the atlas will be sent to either address.

  • Atlas must bear the Earth on his shoulders and there is no Perseus to relieve him of the weight.

  • On the same night a charge of Atlas Powder, similar to that used at the Tower, created no small havoc in Westminster Hall; while the third explosion was the well-remembered event at the House of Commons.

  • Each packet had the words 'Atlas Powder A' printed on it, and was open at one end, and weighed rather under half a pound.

  • In making it I have, after due consideration, definitely adopted the assignment of the Mexican symbols and colors to the cardinal points given by Friar Duran in the Calendar-swastika contained in his atlas and reproduced (pl.

  • The two bars of Quetzalcoatl's litter, figured in Duran's atlas (Tratado 2, cap.

  • In Duran's Atlas the seven caves are represented as containing men and women--the progenitors of the seven tribes.

  • The large atlas of the world, a very expensive work, belonging to the commander, supplied accurate maps on a small scale, and these were transferred to the canvas, eight feet square.

  • People talk a good deal of nonsense about the importance of teaching geography at school instead of useless subjects like Latin and Greek, but so long as you have an atlas near you, of what use is geography?

  • When I open my atlas I open it to look at maps--to find out where Tripoli is--not to acquire information about flax and things; yet I cannot forego the boast that if I wanted I could even speak at length about flax.

  • I say that I don't follow my atlas here, because information of this sort does not seem to belong properly to an atlas.

  • My own atlas is a particularly fine specimen.

  • But my atlas goes even farther than this, though I for one do not follow it.

  • Then you can stay over at my place and tomorrow we'll go up to the Atlas and look around for your brother.

  • He's going to take me to the Atlas to get Steve.

  • Are we going to go over to the Atlas now?

  • After nine years he wouldn't still be working the Atlas if he had any dough.

  • The Atlas was similar to the other games parlor where Alan had had the set-to with the robohuckster; it was dark-windowed and a shining blue robot stood outside, urging passersby to step inside and try their luck.

  • That happens to be the address of the Atlas Games Parlor.

  • The Atlas was a good bit dingier than the Class A parlor he had been in the night before; its electroluminescent light-panels fizzed and sputtered, casting uncertain shadows here and there.

  • Then we don't need to rush right over to the Atlas now.

  • The Aldeb's skipper pushed a button and the Precinct Atlas came out of its slot.

  • The skipper punched keys and the atlas clicked and whirred.

  • This Atlas was the son of Japhet by the nymph Asia, and grandson of Noah.

  • The lineage of Atlas extended in a grand succession of generations, and his kingdom was ruled in succession by the firstborns.

  • Any opposition to the tricolour, which he hates with the hatred of an old Atlas fighter, appears to excite him.

  • He had still a number of faithful defenders, and like an old lion of the Atlas he would certainly sell his life dearly.

  • The Atlas can be had separately by those who want it, at 75 cts.

  • This Atlas also contains a large number of new and interesting Statistical Tables from the Census of 1850.

  • Terra Australis or Australia occurs in the Atlas to Capt.

  • Fable makes Atlas claim the invention of the oar, and gives to Tiphys, the pilot of the Argo, the invention of the rudder.

  • Towards the centre of Africa were the stupendous ridges of the Atlas Mountains: Homer deified the highest peak, and made it a giant supporting upon his shoulders the outspreading canopy of the heavens.

  • Atlas of Maps to illustrate the Campaigns, 12s.


  • The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atlas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.