It has given birth to the greatest ethnic religion the world has seen; it is also the motherland of one of the three great missionary faiths of the world.
The Colonies and Motherland would thus teach other and emigration would also be greatly aided along British channels.
In the holds of the cumbersome ships that plied between the new country and the motherland were placed as cargoes, pillars, columns, and bits of shaped wood, all to be used in the construction of the new home, and incidentally in the porch.
Remember we are men determined to emancipate our Motherland from bondage.
He tries to serve his motherland according to his light, not for his own aggrandisement but for her welfare alone.
See the Motherland uphold To the sky her Green and Gold.
Happily both Motherland and Dominion now see eye to eye in this regard, and no greater evidence of the solidarity resulting can be seen than in the signing of the recent Treaty of Versailles by the Overseas delegates.
No country {476} realises better than she does that it is coal and comfort which will attract settlers from theMotherland to till her fields, build up her factories and engage in the trade which makes a nation truly great.
She is the motherland of America, and, by mutual efforts, the two have become the paragons of civilised progress.
To select the moment when the Motherland was engaged in a fight for life or death, to propose to run away from the assailed home where we had lived many happy years, was certainly not an inspiration of loyal devotion and gratitude.
Out of hundreds and thousands of politicians, both in the Motherland and in our own Dominion, there may have been failings.
As in the old motherland marriage is considered as indissoluble except by the death of one of the contracting parties.
In conversation with the German officers I was much struck with the essentially false ideas that they had with regard to the position of the motherland and her dependencies.
All this meant that communications between the colony and the motherland were very precarious.
Nowhere could a little population be found more loyal to the motherland than in Bermuda, or prouder of its common heritage.
This fidelity to the customs of the motherland is very touching but hardly practical, for in the burning climate of the West Indies every available breath of fresh air is welcome.
Your burden grows lighter, O Motherland dear, 270 Your wounds less appalling to see.
But the theory was the pet one of all the experts, and it was employed seriously to disturb the pleasant relations between the Motherland and the Dominions.
To them estates in the New World meant much, but the motherland and the Bourbon lilies meant yet more; and as for the more recent arrivals, not having yet struck deep root in the land of their adoption, they were content to return to France.
But, out there in Hong Kong, they heard the call of a Motherland they had never seen, and came post haste to her help.
It was a dark day for the motherland when so many of her sons believed that she was the enemy of liberty.
The Canadian peasant had been cruelly robbed and he had conceived for his French rulers a dislike which appears still in his attitude towards the motherland of France.
Some went to England only to find melancholy disillusion of hope that a grateful motherland would understand and reward their sacrifices.
It followed, of course, that the motherland was superior to her children overseas.
He pleaded with the Welshmen and the Cornishmen, and told them that the motherland was bleeding to death and that now every boy counted.
Let us keep the love of the motherland in our hearts, but let us dethrone the conception of Motherland.
The idea of motherland is not a false idea, but it is a little idea, and one which must remain little.
Thus you will disarm the "fatherlands" and "motherlands," and you will reduce the notion of Motherland to the little bit of social importance that it must have.
What, that notion of Motherland also, which has so often thrilled me with gladness and enthusiasm, as but lately that of God did?
The present understanding of the idea of motherland divides all these great ideas, cuts them into pieces, specializes them within impenetrable circles.
It is because of motherland that the big countries, more rich in blood, have overcome the little ones.
It is because of motherland that the overlord of German nationalism attacked France and let civil war loose among the people of the world.
He had seen that the break with the motherland was coming, and the prospect was almost more than he could bear.
But as they prospered they became self-confident and with scarce an enemy at home they became involved in a quarrel with the motherland across the sea.
Shall the sacred Motherland be inoculated with Western poison?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "motherland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: birthplace; country; cradle; home; land; root; soil
