transmarine

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Some historians have attributed to the influence of Richelieu this policy of creating a seigneurial class in the transmarine dominions of France.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

See ch. iv., where the attitude of the senate towards the proposals for transmarine settlement made by Caius Gracchus is described.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

It is, however, much otherwise with all her transmarine mail communications.

From A General Plan for a Mail Communication by Steam, Between Great Britain and the Eastern and Western Parts of the World by MacQueen, James

For the security of the new possessions Metellus adopted the device, still rare in the case of transmarine dependencies, of planting colonies on the conquered land.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell