The Armstrong, Palliser, and Beaulieu guns were compelled to bow before their transatlantic rivals.
No international difficulty ever arise to enable us to declare war against some transatlantic power?
As public interest was in question, and
transatlantic communications suffered, their veracity could not be doubted.
A railway train from San Francisco to New York, and a
transatlantic steamer from New York to Liverpool, would doubtless bring them to the end of this impossible journey round the world within the period agreed upon.
Hamilton Fynes had the appearance of a perfectly respectable
transatlantic man of business, there was nothing about his personality remarkably striking,--nothing, at any rate, to inspire an unusual amount of respect.
See how the figures jump up, as soon as one arrives at the
transatlantic list:
19,250 pounds, a weight very inferior to that of the
transatlantic cable which had been drawn up under similar conditions.
Since the above was written, the question of dominion over the vast territory beyond the Rocky Mountains, which for a time threatened to disturb the peaceful relations with our
transatlantic kindred, has been finally settled in a spirit of mutual concession, and the venerable projector whose early enterprise forms the subject of this work had the satisfaction of knowing, ere his eyes closed upon the world, that the flag of his country again waved over "ASTORIA."
Since then the most conservative engineer will discuss the problem of
transatlantic telephony.
He was her distant relative, but the nearest who had survived the gradual extinction of her family; so that no more eligible shelter could be found for the rich and high-born Lady Eleanore Rochcliffe than within the Province House of a
transatlantic colony.
In all their arrangements of such nature, Mr and Mrs John Harmon derived much assistance from their eminent solicitor, Mr Mortimer Lightwood; who laid about him professionally with such unwonted despatch and intention, that a piece of work was vigorously pursued as soon as cut out; whereby Young Blight was acted on as by that
transatlantic dram which is poetically named An Eye- Opener, and found himself staring at real clients instead of out of window.
So far is it from the ordinary habits of mankind to calculate the importance of events in their elementary principles, that had the first colonists of our country ever intimated as a part of their designs the project of founding a great and mighty nation, the finger of scorn would have pointed them to the cells of Bedlam as an abode more suitable for hatching vain empires than the solitude of a
transatlantic desert.