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Terra incognita   Listen
noun
Terra incognita  n.  An unknown land; unexplored country. "The enormous tracts lying outside China proper, still almost terrae incognitae."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Terra incognita" Quotes from Famous Books



... all? Was there nothing behind these qualities—which, after all, were within the reach of every one here? Had they ever thought that back of every pioneer, every explorer, every pathfinder, every founder and creator, there was still another? There was no terra incognita so rare as to be unknown to one; no wilderness so remote as to be beyond a greater ken than theirs; no waste so trackless but that one had already passed that way! Did they ever reflect that when the dull sea ebbed and flowed in the tules over ...
— A First Family of Tasajara • Bret Harte

... the country north of the Grand River, so that Hubbard's project called for his plunge into a region where no footsteps would be found to guide him. Not only this, but the George River country, which it was his ultimate purpose to reach, was, and still remains, terra incognita; for although McLean made several trips up and down this river, he neither mapped it nor left any definite descriptions ...
— The Lure of the Labrador Wild • Dillon Wallace

... and my History will furnish materials for a pretty little Romance which shall be entitled and denominated the loves of Lord B. and the cruel and Inconstant Sigismunda Cunegunda Bridgetina, etc., etc., Princess of Terra Incognita. ...
— The Works Of Lord Byron, Letters and Journals, Vol. 1 • Lord Byron, Edited by Rowland E. Prothero



Words linked to "Terra incognita" :   unknown region, unknown, region



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