If he called himself a Deputy Commissioner he was a rank impostor, and had no more authority to annex this island than you have.
Mr. Clemm said the Ringarooma had been sent under hurry orders to annex right and left in order to forestall the French, who had broken their international agreement and were hoisting their flag all over the place.
She saw that if the Austrians should annex the Balkan lands lying to the south they would control the whole eastern shore of the Adriatic.
Under his guidance she would intimidate or conquer the other German states and force them into trade and commercial agreements, or annex their territory to that of Prussia.
Italy was finally driven into this unnatural alliance by the action of France, which in 1881 occupied Tunis, a land which Italy herself had been planning to annex as a colony.
On the whole I am glad of it, as, though the poetical justice would have been admirable, we should lose our game altogether just now with the Tories, as they would certainly annex Egypt and invade the Soudan.
Popple lumbered away, and Raymond would have gone to the annex had he not been stayed by Tollemache.
King Henry, spent all their energy in the attempt to annex the kingdom of Naples and the duchy of Milan, to which they had some shadowy claim of succession.
By refusing to allow of this custom Lord Dalhousie was able to annex the great Mahratta state of the Rajahs of Berar, the old opponents of Wellesley and Hastings.
But he considered the most feasible method of reducing it was to annex Dominica, and he introduced a resolution to that effect.
It was simply to annex San Domingo, Cuba, and Canada.
I was much pleased when the American Annex came to me one day and told me that she and the English Annexwere meditating an expedition, in which they wanted the other Teacups to join.
What put all this into my head is something which the English Annex has been showing me.
The two Annexes whispered together, and the American Annex gave their joint result.
I did not hear what the English Annex said, but the American girl's voice was sharper, and I overheard what sounded to me like, "It is time to stir up that young Doctor.
When it was proposed to annexthe Denyer jewels--" "The Denyer jewels?
I say that when it was proposed to annex the Denyer jewels, you immediately volunteered to carry the business through.
But the Duke of Wellington was not by any means alone in a reluctance toannex New Zealand.
By Wakefield it was that the Colonial Office was forced to annex New Zealand.
It might be decided to annex the country, or it might be thought better to set up a new King, and to make Upper Burma a protected State.
I was under the impression that this was my private property, but you evidently consider you are entitled not only to annex my possessions, but to exercise a cheap generosity by presenting them to others.
When we annex a State, we put an end to promotion alike in war and learning; and under our rule, unless it change its character, enlightenment must decline in India, however much material prosperity may increase.
Why not insist on Egypt ceasing to intrigue against you, and annex the country if she continues in her present course?
For Chicago regards the lake as hardly more than an annex to her park system, even today when the question of lake-front rights is not entirely settled with the railroad.
You know what an annex to a house is--that it is a few extra rooms built beside the house, and joined permanently to it.
For the clearing up whereof, I shall annex the following particulars.
You must violate every rule of construction and common sense, if you sever it from the power of raising money and annex it to any thing else, in order to make it that formidable power which it is represented to be.
It is urged that he has assumed powers belonging to Congress in undertaking to annex the portion of West Florida between the Mississippi and the Perdido to the Orleans Territory.
It will be seen, sir, that the bill proposes to annex that portion of West Florida in dispute between this and the Spanish Government to the State to be formed out of the Territory of Orleans.
SIR: I have the honor to annex a list of twelve of the crew of the late United States sloop of war Wasp, detained by Captain John Beresford, of the British ship Poictiers, under the pretence of their being British subjects.
But, once annex it to a State and the power to negotiate ceases.
Defn: To add or annexto the end, as a letter or syllable to a word; to append.
When two or more persons customarily annex the same sounds to the same ideas, the expression of these sounds by one person communicates his ideas to another.
You might offer to build an annex to the House of Martha, but such a matter could surely wait until the return of the Mother Superior.
The annex I am thinking of is quite different; and yet not altogether so, either.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "annex" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
