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Example sentences for "establish themselves"

  • Merchants came to establish themselves in the vicinity, and the camp was transformed into a city; but still the soldiers, encamped in the face of the enemy, preserved their valor and their discipline.

  • But thousands of Greek scholars and artists came to establish themselves in Rome and to open schools of literature and of eloquence.

  • And so in Gaul it was Marseilles that introduced the Romans into the valley of the Rhone; it was the people of Autun (the Ædui) who permitted them to establish themselves in the heart of the land.

  • The priests of whom they asked the interpretation of this oracle bade the Athenians quit Attica and go to establish themselves elsewhere.

  • It was under this name that the French kings gave them on different occasions various privileges, when they frequented the fairs of Champagne and came to establish themselves in the inland and seaport towns.

  • They must change everything, they must destroy everything, in the country in which they wished to establish themselves; they must either exterminate the population, or reduce it to the impossibility of disturbing a foreign domination.

  • When the Turks became masters of Constantinople, the learned, exiled from their country, came to establish themselves in Italy, where the Greek muses formed an alliance with the Latin muses.

  • How was it that in spite of all this the Manchus were able to establish themselves?

  • He is even said to have silenced his scruples so far as to allow certain ingenious artisans to establish themselves permanently in the kingdom.

  • Some of the Eruli would not "cross the Danube, but decided to establish themselves in the uttermost ends of the inhabited world.

  • The Boii, a fraction of a great nomadic nation of this name, of Celtic origin, authorised by Caesar to establish themselves on the territory of the AEdui, between the Loire and the Allier.

  • Caesar declares, on two different occasions, the fixed design of the Helvetii to establish themselves in the country of the Santones (I.

  • He permitted the Boii, celebrated for their brilliant valour, to establish themselves in the country of the AEdui, who had asked permission to receive them.

  • Jews not allowed to establish themselves in the colonies, or undertake voyages of discovery.

  • No strangers, and above all, no Moors nor Jews, were permitted to establish themselves in the island, nor to go upon voyages of discovery.

  • Of course all his companions in the enterprise were entitled to take part in the acquired territory, and to establish themselves there as feudal lords, reducing the natives to the condition of villains or vassals.

  • The Anilocrae and the Nerocilae, like the Cyami and other genera, establish themselves on the back of a fish which is a good swimmer.

  • The Bryozoaria, the animal mosses, establish themselves on all solid 41 bodies at the bottom of the sea, like true mosses on stones or on trees.

  • The Baltic fleet, being in the hands of the Bolsheviki, naturally gave its support to the Finnish Bolsheviki, who were enabled to establish themselves in the capital, Helsingfors.

  • They had already taken away from the Menapii there the portion of their territory situated on the right bank, and it might be foreseen that they would make the attempt to establish themselves also on the left.

  • In Gaul, which was no longer able to govern itself, the Romans had hitherto ruled on the south coast, while lately the Germans had attempted to establish themselves farther up.

  • There they built their houses in great numbers, and there also they built the house of the god in the centre of the city at the most elevated point, where they placed it when they came to establish themselves in that place.

  • Veytia, Ixtlilxochitl, Torquemada, and Clavigero tell us that of these who fled some founded settlements on the coasts of both oceans, from which came parties at subsequent periods to re-establish themselves in Anahuac.

  • They find women, thanks to Christianity, no longer unable to establish themselves in life; but against Christianity which has done this they raise the loud complaint that it bars the individual from full life and enjoyment.

  • On the other hand heathen practices and constant wars made it, as we have seen, impossible for women to establish themselves alone.

  • While the brothers Simonds were endeavoring to establish themselves at St. John, a settlement upon a more extensive scale was being projected by a number of people in the County of Essex in Massachusetts.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    blue flame; call again; certain bodies; darker shade; establish himself; establish itself; establish justice; establish post; establish the; establish their own righteousness; established church; established fact; established harmony; established himself; find here; five and twenty thousand; great author; having taken; listen attentively; little lass; move from; over thar; thine own; this narrative; true beauty; will strive