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Example sentences for "foreign yoke"

  • By protecting Ferdinand, he said, Napoleon might merit and gain the esteem and the affection of Spain; but by an attempt to subject the nation to a foreign yoke, he would lose their affections for ever.

  • The hymn rises far above the mere impatience of a foreign yoke.

  • He, on his part, promised to reform whatever was amiss; and the eagerness of the English to throw off a foreign yoke, made them flock to the king with such zeal and haste that he soon found himself at the head of a powerful army.

  • There was no real joy on such a ceremony, which, to the Parisians, was but a mark of subjugation to a foreign yoke.

  • Thus, owing to the great prudence and loyalty of the regent, was ended a civil war which at one time threatened to subjugate England to a foreign yoke.

  • The new town, nevertheless, was not remitted of misfortune; for the inhabitants were made slaves of, compelled to admit a foreign yoke, and this for the space of seventy years.

  • The Milesians, when free from a foreign yoke, were often reduced to a state of vassalage by domestic tyrants, who governed them with absolute sway, and made them feel all the evils of a foreign subjection.

  • Palmyra, having become subject to a foreign yoke, bore the burthen with impatience.

  • Richard had been the friend and benefactor of Glendour; he had fought for him while living, and now that he was gone, he sought not only to revenge his death, but to preserve his native land from the usurpations of a foreign yoke.

  • Cambuskenneth, on the opposite banks of the impetuous Forth, became the theatre of a decisive victory, which seemed about to deliver Scotland from the oppression of a foreign yoke.

  • Recount with this the triple covenant broke, And Israel fitted for a foreign yoke; Nor here your counsels fatal progress staid, But sent our levied powers to Pharaoh's aid.

  • To compass this, the triple bond he broke, The pillars of the public safety shook, And fitted Israel for a foreign yoke.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but for all that; find what; foreign affairs; foreign articles; foreign authors; foreign birth; foreign born; foreign capital; foreign corn; foreign court; foreign influence; foreign influences; foreign interference; foreign language; foreign nation; foreign parentage; foreign politics; foreign port; foreign powers; foreign prince; foreign ships; foreign wars; foreign workers; love the; shooting party; what looked