transmarine

Example Sentences

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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

Orders were therefore sent from Whitehall to the governors of the transmarine possessions of the Crown, directing them to be on the watch for him.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Heyn was employed by the Dutch West India Company, which from the year 1623 onwards, carried the Spanish war into the transmarine possessions of Spain and Portugal.

From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry

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)

Formerly, the monastic funds were drawn upon to excess in defraying the costs of a transmarine visitation.

From The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg by Hogg, James