Colonists

Examples

• This game was brought from Holland by those colonists who settled Manhattan Island in 1623. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There is also every reason to believe that the French colonists in Maryland and Canada let no great time elapse before importing tables and equipment into those colonies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Still, to get to Egypt, was something, in the eyes of the unfortunate colonists, hopeless as the prospect seemed of ever getting further. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• And, unlike the American colonists, who simply repudiated a king, the French, following in the footsteps of the English revolution, beheaded one. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The colonists took counter-measures. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The blood horses of them colonists might fling up the dust over me as I was walking; what do I say? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• In every thing except their foreign trade, the liberty of the English colonists to manage their own affairs their own way, is complete. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mr. Beach gave his check for the money and so the troubles of the Jaffa colonists were at an end. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• There is more equality, therefore, among the English colonists than among the inhabitants of the mother country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Shall colonists have their horses (and blood 'uns, if you please, good Lord! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He trusted rather to being able to blockade, raid, and annoy the colonists into submission than to a conclusive conquest and occupation of the land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This inclined many of the Whig noblemen to a sympathy with the colonists that they might not otherwise have shown. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was resolved by the colonists to refuse and boycott this tea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But I am forgetting the Jaffa Colonists. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The lifting of the French danger left the colonists unencumbered to face their third common antagonist--the crown and government of their mother land. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The colonists, when they settled in this country, probably brought with them all the European types of sickles and scythes, and out of them evolved the cradle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The quartering of soldiers upon the colonists was a great nuisance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They blindly persevered in their own schemes, and left to the colonists no alternative but opposition or unconditional submission. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It is more convenient for the colonists to pay in tobacco than in gold and silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The English in America were colonists; the French were explorers, adventurers, agents, missionaries, merchants, and soldiers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The English colonists have never yet contributed any thing towards the defence of the mother country, or towards the support of its civil government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This disaster encouraged the French and Spanish to come into the struggle on the side of the colonists. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the United States the colonists early felt the need of local production. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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