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Example sentences for "foreign lands"

  • Tracts and Bibles in foreign lands, or, as needed, 60l.

  • Thus the Lord gives me the desire of my heart, to help more and more the dear brethren who labour in word and doctrine, either in this country or in foreign lands.

  • In a kind of astonishment she wandered from section to section of her own land, discovering everywhere peoples and manners and languages that were as strange to her even as foreign lands.

  • Other unions were devoted to foreign missions, to work among Germans in foreign lands, etc.

  • When I was doomed to wander in foreign lands, he who had wandered so much, retired permanently to a small town and there provided me a home.

  • It was with the greatest care that the abbe dictated to Marie-Anne the story she was to tell of her sojourn in foreign lands.

  • They took refuge in foreign lands as a passer-by seeks shelter in a doorway from a summer shower, saying to himself: "This will not last long.

  • Is it any fault of ours that the nobles fled to foreign lands?

  • Thirteen years have elapsed; and I propose to fulfil my engagement, by expressing, in the form of the present little volume, the views which I now entertain in regard to the claims of foreign lands.

  • If Paul were to write or lecture on pastoral theology, would he not give more prominence to the duties that might devolve upon his students in foreign lands?

  • There must be among the whole body of Christians, not only an interest in the work, but to a greater extent than is imagined, a personal enlistment--an actual going forth to foreign lands.

  • By their vows they are bound to be as self-denying, as spiritual and devoted, as though they were missionaries to foreign lands.

  • And if our people will not hear the voice of God, lo, nations from afar will come and sack Jerusalem, and tear our temple down, and take our people captive into foreign lands.

  • Now, many women who possessed much wealth, and who abode in other towns of Galilee, implored that Jesus and the twelve, together with the masters from the foreign lands, would thither go and preach and heal.

  • And Jesus told the aged teachers all about his life; about his journeyings in foreign lands; about the meetings with the masters and about his kind receptions by the multitudes.

  • The earliest partners in trade would have been the members of a caravan, who clubbed together to travel and traffic in foreign lands and to defend themselves in common from the perils of the journey.

  • Scheil is right in his translation of the Sumerian words, the kings of Ur, before the days of Abraham, made their daughters high-priestesses of foreign lands.

  • Sometimes the dates were eaten fresh, at other times they were dried and exported to foreign lands; out of some of them wine was made, out of others a rich and luscious sugar.

  • The most skilful chiefs and agents of contemporaneous industry went in multitudes to settle in foreign lands.

  • It was repeated through the army that the Czar had died in foreign lands, and that the boyars wished to put his son Alexis to death.

  • Notwithstanding his ardent wish to travel in the West, he took the resolution not to appear in foreign lands till he could appear as a victor.

  • Some were preaching the Gospel in foreign lands.

  • In vain they searched the country round; in vain they inquired about priests in foreign lands.

  • They had still a burning love for Christ; they were still willing to serve abroad; and they still went out to foreign lands, and laid down their lives for the sake of Him who had laid down His for them.

  • Thus a great German cultural work in foreign lands, which stood as a model of the method and manner which a cultured nation should employ in extending the advantages of its culture to another nation, was annihilated by English commercial envy.

  • I believe in the revocation of the unjust Peace of Versailles by the judgment of the sensible elements of foreign lands and by Germany herself.

  • The Russian Communist Party, which is the Bolsheviki's official political title, no longer exports agitators chosen from among members to kindle the flames of revolt in foreign lands.

  • I was born an American and curious; not too curious, but just curious enough to be interested in the ethnographical and psychological problems of foreign lands.

  • I held the trunk with both my hands And looked abroad on foreign lands.

  • A Library of Travel and Adventure in Foreign Lands.

  • Alas for us deserters, that in time of pestilence, timid souls, we fled to foreign lands!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    even supposing; foreign affairs; foreign articles; foreign assistance; foreign commodities; foreign debt; foreign exchange; foreign government; foreign immigration; foreign influence; foreign influences; foreign intervention; foreign minister; foreign nations; foreign parts; foreign politics; foreign pollen; foreign ports; foreign power; foreign powers; foreign relations; foreign states; foreign vessels; foreign workers; mental processes; other terms