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Example sentences for "colony from"

  • Archias the son of Evagetus, of the stock of Hercules, leads a Colony from Corinth into Sicily, and builds Syracuse.

  • And thus a colony from heaven, it may be from the sun, is transplanted on our soil.

  • They held the Urim and Thummim, and the compass of Lehi, which had been prepared by Providence, to guide a colony from Jerusalem to America.

  • It was founded by a native of Rhodes, according to Polybius; but by a colony from Ionia, according to Strabo; about one hundred and eighty years after the founding of Syracuse.

  • Thucydides, however, says that it was founded by a colony from Gela.

  • This city, situated at the foot of Mount Etna, was founded by a colony from Chalcis, seven hundred and fifty-three years before the Christian era; and soon after the settlement of Syracuse.

  • Utica having also been raised by a colony from Tyre, its inhabitants entered into friendship with the new comers.

  • Their condition of unbelief sustains the views on the value of the written word expressed by King Benjamin--son of Mosiah I--when teaching his people the importance of the records brought by Lehi's colony from Jerusalem.

  • What proofs have we that the Egyptians were a colony from Atlantis?

  • The copper mines of the Basques were extensively worked at a very early age of the world, either by the people of Atlantis or by the Basques themselves, a colony from Atlantis.

  • And how does it happen that in the time of Herodotus there dwelt near this mountain-chain a people called the Atlantes, probably a remnant of a colony from Solon's island?

  • Phocis was originally ruled by kings descended, it is said, from Phocus, the leader of a colony from Corinth.

  • Chalcis was a colony from a city of the same name in Euboea.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blood poisoning; colony from; common consent; constitutional questions; deciduous trees; done before; field sports; fine powder; flint arrow; fresh meat; further than; governing overseas administrative division; half cupfuls; historical evidence; how they; intransitive verb; little delay; little inclination; melancholy tone; narrow lane; other quarters; soon discovered