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Example sentences for "provincial governor"

  • Dagworthy had received his commission from the king, and he claimed that hence he was Washington's superior, who received his commission from a provincial governor.

  • Having procured an order from General Shirley, under which a commission from a provincial governor was as good as one from the king, Washington started upon his return journey, after remaining ten days in Boston.

  • The latter officer made some trouble for Washington by claiming superiority of rank, because his commission was from the King of England, while Washington's was from a provincial governor only.

  • No sufficient provision of officers being made, the troops remained without training, and it frequently happened that, instead of military exercises, they were required to labour for the enrichment of a provincial governor.

  • This term, "provincial governor," appears now for the first time written with the ideographs "kokushi.

  • Persons eligible for the post of provincial governor seem to have been chosen from among men of merit, or Imperial princes, or chiefs of aboriginal tribes.

  • It has been wisely ordered by the Ancients that a Provincial Governor's term of office should be only annual.

  • Corrector (lowest grade of Provincial Governor) of Bruttii and Lucania, iii.

  • The Domestici were a very select corps of Life-guardsmen; probably only a very small number of them would accompany a Provincial Governor to his charge.

  • If, for a moment, we suppose that, instead of being condemned by Trajan himself, Ignatius received his sentence from a provincial governor, the story does not gain greater probability.

  • These companies and their agents were indeed destined to be a thorn in Cicero's side as a provincial governor himself.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    carnival time; clasping her hands together; country home; cried out; cried passionately; dear niece; eyed vireo; find what; for the first time; great hall; large part; manuscript copy; much gold; necessary truths; never fear; provincial council; provincial councils; provincial governor; provincial life; provincial secretary; provincial town; railway stations; said after; shedding tears; should prove; stay here