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antipodes
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Definition:Australia and New Zealand
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I'm your aunt— your Aunt Amelia, you know me now— from Australia, you know!' This was a severe shock to Flushington, who had not even known he possessed such a relative anywhere; all he could say just then was, 'Oh, are you?' which he felt at the time was not quite the welcome to give an aunt who had come all the way from the Antipodes.
F. Anstey. The Black Poodle and Other Tales (1896)
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And those could have changed hands between friends or been brought by mail order from anywhere in Europe, anywhere in the Antipodes.
Stieg Larsson. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Reg Keeland translation), p.5 (2009)
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I can’t spare you. You are a sort of circumnavigator come to settle among us, and will keep up my belief in the antipodes. Now tell me all about them in Paris.”
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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Possibly he had tried to find out the secret for himself, floundering up and down the antipodes and all that sort of thing and over and under, well, not exactly under, tempting the fates.
James Joyce. Ulysses
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he, coming up from the antipodes rather unsteadily, after an apparently violent journey, proved to be Mr. Wopsle in a high-crowned hat, with a necromantic work in one volume under his arm.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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The Antipathies, I think—' (she was rather glad there was no one listening, this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word) '—but I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is, you know. Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?'
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland (1865)
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