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Example sentences for "this colony"

  • And I do order and appoint this proclamation to be published by the sheriffs at their respective country houses, and by all ministers and readers in the several churches and chapels throughout this colony.

  • He's out and away the most infernal scoundrel in this colony.

  • Biggest blackguard in this colony, is Anstey.

  • Preference is universally given to the grain produced in this colony, because of its uniform excellence.

  • It must not be forgotten that two thirds of this colony is within the tropics, stretching northward until it is separated from the Equator by eleven degrees only.

  • It is in this colony of Australia that the traveller finds the giant trees, considered to be one of the great wonders of our times, and which exceed in dimensions those grand conifers of California in which Americans feel such pride.

  • No official and scarcely any other accounts of the event are to be found, but the invasion of this colony appears to have been effected about the middle of February.

  • Thus through the exertions and general co-operation of the fleet and the army, has been effected the important conquest of this colony in nine days from the landing of the 1st Division.

  • The doctors will have to prescribe some other stimulant than alcohol for residents in this Colony.

  • I would guard against misconception in relation to this Colony Over-Sea by pointing out that all my proposals here are necessarily tentative and experimental.

  • Generally speaking, I may say that your policy and procedure have been commended by the Chief Officers of the Government of this Colony, who have observed your work.

  • Those who are able to form an opinion on the subject, pronounce the aborigines of this colony to be cannibals.

  • I am proud to say it, and you should be proud to hear it, gentle Christopher, that a Scotch servant, male or female, is forty per cent above every other in value in this colony.

  • The aboriginal natives of this colony are a very savage race, and all the efforts hitherto made by missionaries, protectors, and others, have never given promise or warrant of effectual civilization.

  • In the first formation and early beginnings of this colony, a man having sheep took up his abode in the interior, on any spot which he considered suitable and agreeable, and he was called a squatter.

  • The staple commodity of this colony is wool.

  • Permit me to say, Sir, there must be a great revolution in this Colony before it can have a salutary influence on the surrounding natives; that is, before it can have a moral influence over them.

  • My sons have none of them been; and we, with my nephew here, are all the Oliphants in this colony.

  • I think they're fairly crazy after the drink in this colony.

  • Now, just take a fact about the drinking habits of this colony.

  • This colony of Louisiana, offers a philosophic and instructive spectacle on this subject, from which I shall make a number of deductions.

  • So rapid was the progress of this colony, that, in eleven years from its commencement, there were upon it eight hundred and twenty-two white persons, with a proportionable number of slaves.

  • In this colony we are every day experiencing the miserable effects of arbitrary power.

  • The hospitality shown by this colony to the last-named gallant explorer had produced a lasting feeling of gratitude throughout South Australia.

  • The honour to be gained by him, and most of the advantages, will ultimately fall to this colony, which is his birth-place; and for my own part I shall be very proud that such a design should be carried out during my term of office.

  • It is difficult to define the rights of a free Negro in this colony.

  • The country was new, the settlements scattered; and slavery as an institution, at this time and in this colony, in its infancy.

  • The institution of slavery was never established by statute in this colony; but it was so firmly rooted five years after the establishment of the government, that it required the positive and explicit prohibition of law to destroy it.

  • A government of more stability is much wanted in this colony, and they are ready to receive it from the hands of the Congress.

  • I take this opportunity to write, by our committee who were sent to this colony,[67] just to let you know that I am comfortable, and shall proceed this afternoon.

  • I shall send you the newspapers, which will inform you of public affairs, and the particular flickerings of parties in this colony.

  • The Assembly of this colony is now sitting at Hartford.

  • There is less perhaps of the 'spirit of dealing' in this colony than in any other of the British empire.

  • Hannibal," said I, "the Spirit of the Age in this colony is opposed to territorial and to social improvement.


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