retrocession

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How to use retrocession in a sentence

  • Near the bottom, however, it became abruptly wider by the retrocession of the walls.

    The Lone Ranche | Captain Mayne Reid
  • Farewell to happiness which might be found by retrocession to a natural and primitive life!

    The Dead Command | Vicente Blasco Ibez
  • The Chinese in demanding the retrocession of Kuldja labour under the one disadvantage that they come to oust a beneficent rule.

    The Life of Yakoob Beg | Demetrius Boulger
  • And a young man, whom I saw yesterday, was seized with asthma on the retrocession, or ceasing of eruptions on his face.

    Zoonomia, Vol. II | Erasmus Darwin
  • The retrocession of the Transvaal in 1881 has been much lauded as an act of magnanimity and justice.

    Native Races and the War | Josephine Elizabeth Butler

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