Settlements

Examples

• The Mexicans used to capture these in large numbers and bring them into the American settlements and sell them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• But his proposals for state settlements were what we should call state socialism to-day. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Even in the islands where they have settlements, they have very much reduced, it is said, the number of those trees. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Others conjectured that she was going to be married, and that the settlements were preparing. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• At Madras, Bombay, and Calcutta the English established their headquarters; Pondicherry and Chandernagore were the chief French settlements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Among the oldest of these settlements was the colony of Virginia, the name of which commemorates Queen Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen of England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Such small settlements as the Swedes made in America presently fell to the Dutch. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Upon the seven hills near the ford a number of settlements sprang up, which finally amalgamated into one city. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• We'll indict the blackguards for felony, and get 'em shipped off to penal settlements. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• To these Jewish Khazars are to be ascribed the great settlements of Jews in Poland and Russia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She wanted settlements. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The difficulty of obtaining settlements obstructs even that of common labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Spain retained Cuba and a few settlements in the Philippine Islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Municipal improvements were undertaken in Panama and Colon and the various settlements in the Canal Zone, such as the construction of reservoirs, pavements and a system of modern roads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The Dutch settlements in the West, as well as those in the East Indies, were originally put under the government of an exclusive company. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Courtship, love, presents, jointures, settlements have no place in their thoughts, or terms whereby to express them in their language. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Playing with shawls is very different work to drawing up settlements. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• One of their earliest settlements in Russia was Novgorod the Great. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Little was known of the topography of the country beyond the settlements of these frontiersmen. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For Hull House differs from most settlements in that it is full of pictures, of color, and of curios. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A cheap ice-house may be made to afford an important share of country comforts in such settlements. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The Australian settlements developed slowly until in 1842 the discovery of valuable copper mines, and in 1851 of gold, gave them a new importance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• A few of them founded settlements in Carolina, but these did not remain French; they fell first to the Spanish and finally to the English. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• After the settlements of the Spaniards, that of the Portuguese in Brazil is the oldest of any European nation in America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The two settlements may have been quite independent, arising separately out of the widely diffused Heliolithic Neolithic culture. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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