geographer

"Apparently," Woods and the Wisconsin geographer Joseph M. McCann argued in a presentation last summer, "at some threshold level ... dark earth attains the capacity to perpetuate — even regenerate itself — thus behaving more like a living 'super'-organism than an inert material."

1491 2002

"Apparently," Woods and the Wisconsin geographer Joseph M. McCann argued in a presentation last summer, "at some threshold level ... dark earth attains the capacity to perpetuate — even regenerate itself — thus behaving more like a living 'super'-organism than an inert material."

1491 2002

A geographer is occupied with tasks that are too serious to leave him any time for excursions outside his study.

The Prize in Economics 1978 - Presentation Speech 1992

Yet even that ingenious geographer is too fond of supposing new, and perhaps imaginary measures, for the purpose of rendering ancient writers as accurate as himself.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

The English scholar understood more Arabic than the mufti of Aleppo, (Ockley, vol.ii. p. 34:) the French geographer is equally at home in every age and every climate of the world.] * Eichhorn and Silvestre de Sacy have written on the obscure history of the Mondars. —

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

Surveys were to be made by the "geographer" of the United States, assisted by a surveyor from each of the States.

The United States of America, Part 1 Edwin Erle Sparks 1892

Thomas Hutchins, the national "geographer," and his assistants from the several States, laid off seven ranges of townships, in the eastern part of the present State of Ohio, according to the land Ordinance of 1785, before rumours of hostile Indians drove them back.

The United States of America, Part 1 Edwin Erle Sparks 1892

"I think I have," said the "geographer," ashamed of being thought ignorant, "Silas, was'nt he a Cornish man?

Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811

Julius Caesar, Livy and the geographer Strabo all had a go before Tacitus published his monograph in 98 A.D. But it was his account of these pure-bred, frighteningly tall, dazzlingly blond warriors with their piercing blue eyes, their chastity and their courage, that stuck in the German mind and, nearly two millennia later, bolstered the Nazis' fantasies that they were destined to be the Master Race.

Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011

Julius Caesar, Livy and the geographer Strabo all had a go before Tacitus published his monograph in 98 A.D. But it was his account of these pure-bred, frighteningly tall, dazzlingly blond warriors with their piercing blue eyes, their chastity and their courage, that stuck in the German mind and, nearly two millennia later, bolstered the Nazis' fantasies that they were destined to be the Master Race.

Hitler's Golden Book Ferdinand Mount 2011