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Example sentences for "foreign origin"

  • It is at any rate certain, and in keeping with all that we otherwise know of Roman intercourse that the Greek worship received earlier and more extensive attention in Rome than any other of foreign origin.

  • In point of workmanship and style of art, therefore, we have no reason to ascribe to our Runic brooch a foreign origin.

  • The last is most probable, as the name, Bunyan, would seem to be of foreign origin.

  • There exists, in the department of the Eastern Pyrenees, a people distinct from the rest of the inhabitants, of a foreign origin, and without any settled habits.

  • The following is a list of nouns of foreign origin in common use which have peculiar number forms:-- Singular.

  • Certain it is that, whatever transient visits may have been paid to North America by representatives of Old World progress, no long-matured civilisation, whether of native or foreign origin, has existed there.

  • But it is of foreign origin, though possibly derived from their own term: oegwehokough, “people.

  • The species is rarer in Norway than in Sweden,[53] in the British Isles than in Holland, where a foreign origin is not attributed to it.

  • A collector or traveller had need be a keen observer to judge if a plant has sprung from a wild stock belonging to the flora of the country, or if it is of foreign origin.

  • The system of calling, or recalling, a favourite performer, which now appears to be established in our theatres, is of foreign origin, and was first instituted in London at the Italian Opera House.

  • It may be noted that this calling for the author is also of foreign origin.

  • It is generally agreed that he was of foreign origin, an importation from Thrace.

  • But he is commonly held to be of foreign origin.

  • It has no meaning in the Cherokee language and appears to be of foreign origin.

  • Cherokee, the name by which they are commonly known, has no meaning in their own language, and seems to be of foreign origin.

  • Several other names within the same territory are said by the Cherokee to be of foreign origin, although perhaps not Creek, and may be from the Taskigi language.

  • Words like braggadocio, trombone, balloon, being words of foreign origin, prove nothing as to the further existence of augmentative forms in English.

  • All words thus affected are of foreign origin.

  • The etymological view of every word of foreign origin is, not that it is put together in England, but that it is brought whole from the language to which it is vernacular.

  • Nevertheless, the etymological view of every word of foreign origin is, not that it is put together in England, but that it is brought whole from the language to which it is vernacular.

  • The dynasty was Semitic, though of foreign origin; and we may gather from the names of the first two kings that the ancestral god of the family had been Samu(257) or Shem.

  • Grebaut long ago expressed his belief that Osiris was of foreign origin (Recueil de Travaux, i.

  • This is the origin, he believes, of these old works, which are not of foreign origin.

  • They deny, as do all the tribes, a foreign origin.

  • And we must perforce infer, that the Indian race is of foreign origin, and must have crossed an ocean to reach the continent.

  • But we also have Lutherans here who are not of foreign origin.

  • Protestants of foreign origin, enumerated according to the country of birth of parents, one parent or both.

  • Some might not particularly care for the works of foreign origin.

  • The novice generally selects books and tracts of foreign origin, and of a theological or technical complexion.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    bear testimony; foreign bodies; foreign body; foreign capital; foreign countries; foreign debt; foreign government; foreign immigration; foreign minister; foreign ministers; foreign missionary; foreign parentage; foreign parts; foreign policy; foreign prince; foreign travel; foreign vessels; foreign yoke; laying them; local administration; mental traits; natives were; pretty lass; sugar refining; under stress; your company