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Example sentences for "colonial life"

  • The Church is slow to adapt itself to colonial life.

  • Such accidents are of everyday occurrence in colonial life, and they make one doubt the advantages of a wealthy working-class.

  • But perhaps the greatest element in the cheapness of colonial life is its comparative want of 'gentility.

  • Such were the times and the people which gave the future novelist his first practical experience of colonial life.

  • Apart from that, the new-chum is the incarnate comedy of colonial life.

  • In the first twenty years of colonial life, great changes had come over New England.

  • On a prosecution the rash soldier was acquitted, no malice being presumed (1826); and the attack was deemed a contingency of colonial life.

  • Thus, the slaughter of a shepherd had become too frequent to produce much sensation, and was set down as a common risk of colonial life.

  • Though the English, the Scotch-Irish, and the Germans made up the bulk of the colonial population, there were other racial strains as well, varying in numerical importance but contributing their share to colonial life.

  • Explain the position of the church in colonial life.

  • Since I have undertaken the task of drawing sketches of colonial life, I must not endeavour to conceal any portion of the truth, nor tacitly allow erroneous conclusions to be drawn from my remarks.

  • And thus from sheer ignorance of colonial life, we had laid out a considerable portion of our capital in the purchase of useless articles, and of things which might have been procured more cheaply in the colony itself.

  • A colonial life is not for these men, and we recommend them to pass on to some other region as quickly as possible.

  • The bit of history that goes with the picture gives us many glimpses of old-time elegance and romance, and helps us to a good idea of some of the pretentious phases of colonial life.

  • However, they were especially interesting people to meet because of their familiarity with the first half of the eighteenth century, that brightest and most prosperous period of colonial life.

  • We owe a great deal to this old-time grandee for the glimpses his writings give us of colonial life in the South during the generation just preceding that of Washington.

  • She endures the hardships and faces the dangers of colonial life with a new sense of her responsibility as a wife and mother.

  • In the era of colonial life; in the cruel wars with the aborigines; in the struggle of the Revolution; in the western march of the army of exploration and settlement, a grateful people must now recognize her services.

  • This is indeed a faithful picture of one of the frequent episodes of colonial life in New England!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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