Belgium

Examples

• Its founder was Clovis (481-511), who began as a small king in Belgium and ended with his southern frontiers nearly at the Pyrenees. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This fuse was superseded by one invented by General Bormann of Belgium, which greatly added to the value of case shot. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• She drove the Austrians for ever out of Belgium, and made Holland a republic. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Many republicans wanted it because they wished to see the kindred people of Belgium liberated from the Austrian yoke. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Similar works at Avon, near Coventry, England, have an equal capacity, and other factories are about to be established in Belgium and Germany. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One factory in Birmingham, England, is said to produce about twelve hundred weekly, and Belgium shares in their manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I myself was born in Belgium. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Bosquet, sent me a drawing of a perfect specimen of an unmistakable sessile cirripede, which he had himself extracted from the chalk of Belgium. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Belgium, Serbia, and Roumania, and large areas of France and Russia, were occupied by Austro-German troops. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He amused the company with accounts of the army in Belgium; where nothing but fetes and gaiety and fashion were going on. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• King Leopold of Belgium invited him to Brussels, and there discussed with him his plans for a railway from Brussels to Ghent. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The propagandist zeal of the revolution carried the French armies into Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, south Germany, and north Italy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We are going to hunt him out, sir--the Duke's in Belgium already, and we expect marching orders every day. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We're ordered to Belgium. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Stones apparently chipped for use have been found in strata of Oligocene Age at Boncelles in Belgium. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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