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Sentences ending with colony

For I know you to be one of the greatest rogues in the colony. [9]
They were intent upon building up the colony. [4]
To-morrow we go to visit General Montcalm, who has just arrived in the colony. [11]
The first of these accounts is taken from "The True Relation," written by Captain John Smith, composed in Virginia, the earliest published work relating to the James River Colony. [4]
The composition of the colony shows a serious purpose of settlement, since the trades were mostly represented, but there were too many gentlemen to make it a working colony. [4]
Harvey held by the bridle a blooded bay hunter, and her like could scarce be found in the colony. [9]
I refer to the "Adams Jaffa Colony. [5]
Being a keen student of human nature, he rightly supposed that she would not care to join the colony, but he thought it his duty to mention that there was a colony. [9]
By threats and slight torture, the captives were made to confess the hostile intentions of Powhatan and the other chiefs, which was to steal their weapons and then overpower the colony. [4]
In time the shark culture will be one of the most successful things in the colony. [5]

Short sentences using colony

This is no colony. [11]

Sentences containing colony two or more times

Strachey and others testify to his energy in procuring supplies for the colony, and his success in dealing with the Indians, and it seems likely that the colony would have famished but for his exertions. [4]
Upon the return of Samuel Mace, mariner, who was sent out in 1602 to search for White's lost colony, all Raleigh's interest in the Virginia colony had, by his attainder, escheated to the crown. [4]
It is so good a specimen of Smith's ability with the pen, reveals so well his sagacity and knowledge of what a colony needed, and exposes so clearly the ill-management of the London promoters, and the condition of the colony, that we copy it entire. [4]

More example sentences with the word colony in them

Even as a young lad, his father's notable place in the colony, and the freedom and gaiety of life in Quebec and Montreal, had drawn upon him a notice which was as much a promise of the future as an accent of the present. [11]
Mr. Martin followed with: "He reported that I do slack the service in the colony, and do nothing but tend my pot, spit, and oven; but he hath starved my son, and denied him a spoonful of beer. [4]
Lord Delaware remained with the colony less than a year; his health failing, he went in pursuit of it, in March, 1611, to the West Indies. [4]
The expedition of Winthrop was scattered by a storm, and reached Salem with the loss of threescore dead and many sick, to find as many of the colony dead, and all disconsolate. [4]
The colony was willing to spare both these men, and probably Newport it was who decided they should go. [4]
Smith professed himself willing to retire to England, but, seeing the new commission did not arrive, held on to his authority, and began to enforce it to save the whole colony from anarchy. [4]
Vaudreuil and Montcalm were at variance, and Vaudreuil had, through his personal hatred and envy of Montcalm, signed the death-warrant of the colony by writing to the colonial minister that Montcalm's agents, going for succour, were not to be trusted. [11]
But the fossil went on as before, known by name to the merest handful of people in the colony, though they all profited, directly or indirectly, by his scientific services. [11]
In Massachusetts there was from the beginning a steady purpose to make a permanent settlement and colony, and nearly all those who came over worked, with more or less friction, with this end before them. [4]
When the colony was about eighteen or twenty years old it was discovered that the land was specially fitted for the wool-culture. [5]
He arrived in Virginia in 1610 and remained there two years, as secretary of the colony, and was a man of importance. [4]
The colony of Victoria itself looks small on the map--looks like a county, in fact--yet it is about as large as England, Scotland, and Wales combined. [5]
The colony of Victoria has a population of 1,000,000, and those people are said to drink 25,000,000 bottles of champagne per year. [5]
Several long journeys--gave us experience of the Cape Colony railways; easy-riding, fine cars; all the conveniences; thorough cleanliness; comfortable beds furnished for the night trains. [5]
It was not until 1590 that Raleigh was able to despatch vessels to the relief of the Hatorask colony, and then it was too late. [4]
And if your treatment of me was known in Maryland, you would be drummed out of the colony even as Mr. [9]
The untimely visit to the temple could not remain unobserved by the colony of sages. [10]
The whole country, to the corners of its remotest colony, was looking forward to the results of this evening's meeting of Parliament. [6]
He was trying to make for himself a future which might mean the control of a greater colony even. [11]
With a view to attracting free settlers to that penal colony, M. Feillet, the Governor, forcibly expropriated the Kanaka cultivators from the best of their plantations, with a derisory compensation, in spite of the protests of the Council General of the island. [5]
And to effect this mere holding on, with the vagabond crew that composed most of the colony, and with the extravagant and unintelligent expectations of the London Company, was a feat showing decided ability. [4]
The sufferings of this colony in the summer equaled that of the Pilgrims at Plymouth in the winter and spring. [4]
Sailing by Croatan they went to Hatorask, where they descried a smoke in the place they had left the colony in 1587. [4]
By this desertion they weakened the colony, which waited for their return with the provisions, and they made implacable enemies of the Indians by their violence. [4]
The expedition found there no one of the colony (whether it was fifty or fifteen the writers disagree), nothing but the bones of one man where the plantation had been; the houses were unhurt, but overgrown with weeds, and the fort was defaced. [4]
Age after age the world labors for these things with the busy absorption of a colony of ants in its castle of sand. [4]
The testimony of the trustworthy George Sandys, an English traveler into Turkey, Egypt, and Syria in 1610 (afterwards, 1621, treasurer of the colony in Virginia), is to the same effect as given in his "Relation," published in London in 1621. [4]
In pursuit of the terrier she drove madly through Leith, which, as everybody knows, is a famous colony of rich summer residents. [9]
The colony abandoned the pleasant Non-such and returned to the open air at West's Fort. [4]
The possession of the least organized naval force would stimulate a generous ambition in the republic, and the confidence which we should manifest by furnishing it would win forbearance and favor toward the colony from all civilized nations. [7]
The struggles of the fighting colony could have brought her little but pain. [4]
Hamor gives him the distinction of being the first in the colony to try, in 1612, the planting and raising of tobacco. [4]
Two weeks after the day he left Mr. Braden's presence in the Ripton House the principal newspapers of the country contained the startling announcement that the well-known summer colony of Leith was to be represented in the State Legislature by a millionaire. [9]
They made rum the currency of the country--for there was little or no money--and they maintained their devastating hold and kept the colony under their heel for eighteen or twenty years before they were finally conquered and routed by the government. [5]
His interest in the colony was never the most intelligent, and apt to be in things trivial. [4]
When White left the colony three years before, the men had talked of going fifty miles into the mainland, and had agreed to leave some sign of their departure. [4]
The history of the colony all this spring of 1608 is one of labor and discontent, of constant annoyance from the Indians, and expectations of attacks. [4]
Meantime Raleigh, knowing that the colony would probably need aid, was preparing a fleet of three well appointed ships to accompany Sir Richard Grenville, and an "advice ship," plentifully freighted, to send in advance to give intelligence of his coming. [4]
It seems strange that he did not search for the English colony, but the adventurers of that day were independent actors, and did not care to share with each other the glories of discovery. [4]
George Ripley is talking up a colony of agriculturists and scholars, with whom he threatens to take the field and the book. [6]
The prisoners were taken out of their dungeon and led across a desert under the burning sun, and past rocks of strange forms, until they reached a range of mountains with a colony of huts at its base. [10]
The fishery would support a colony until it had obtained a good foothold, and control of these fisheries would bring more profit to England than any other occupation. [4]
White did, indeed, start out from Biddeford in April, 1588, with two vessels, but the temptation to chase prizes was too strong for him, and he went on a cruise of his own, and left the colony to its destruction. [4]
The colony fairly staggered under it. [5]
So we moved south with a westward slant, 17 hours by rail to the capital of the colony of Victoria, Melbourne--that juvenile city of sixty years, and half a million inhabitants. [5]
The supplies which Smith brought gave great comfort to the despairing colony, which was by this time reasonably fitted with houses. [4]
For, believe me, sir, there is no greater rogue unhanged, as you shall find some day to the hurt of your colony, if you shelter him. [11]
Moreover, every evidence showed that he would gladly return to France, for his clear brain foresaw the final ruin of the colony and the triumph of the British. [11]
Smith at once set the whole colony to work, some to make glass, tar, pitch, and soap-ashes, and others he conducted five miles down the river to learn to fell trees and make clapboards. [4]
It was a sealed story what he had been before he came to Governor Sharpe with Baltimore's directions to give him the best in the colony. [9]
Large warehouses stood round the harbor of this Greek colony, and slightly-built dwelling-houses, into which the idle mariners were lured by the sounds of music and laughter, and the glances and voices of painted and rouged damsels. [10]
Your uncle, by reason of his wealth, is a man of undue influence with the powers of the colony. [9]
Notwithstanding these ample provisions for the colony, Smith had small expectation that it would thrive without him. [4]
And it is probable enough that the London promoters would cut out from the "Relation" complaints and evidence of the seditions and helpless state of the colony. [4]
The troubles the primitive colony endured resulted quite as much from its own instability of purpose, recklessness, and insubordination as from the hostility of the Indians. [4]
At your best pleasures, either to return unto the colony, or pray for the success of it heere. [4]
In three months Patty's suppers grew famous in a colony where there was no lack of good cooks. [9]
The wine and other good provision of the ship were so opportune to the necessities of the colony that the President seized them. [4]
For Mr. Lloyd, or some one in your Colony, had written of your disappearance, and I vow bliss Dorothy has not been the same since. [9]
I was the only heir of one of the richest men in the colony, vouched for by the Manners and taken up by Mr. Fox and my Lord Comyn. [9]
But there were one hundred and fifty of the colony who would rather starve or eat each other than help gather food. [4]
The Dutchmen and one Bentley, another fugitive, who were with Powhatan, continued to plot against the colony, and the President employed a Swiss, named William Volday, to go and regain them with promises of pardon. [4]
Virtually it was once a colony. [7]
I think more of this little implement on account of its agency in saving the Colony at Plymouth in the year 1623. [3]
The English-speaking colony of the United States of America is always called lavishly hospitable by the English traveler. [5]
The distinct object of the projectors was to establish a colony in Virginia. [4]
He was chaplain of the English colony in Paris when Sir Francis Drake was fitting out his expedition to America, and was eager to further it. [4]
Meantime the news of the disasters to the colony, and the supposed loss of the Sea Venture, had created a great excitement in London, and a panic and stoppage of subscriptions in the company. [4]
Mrs. Brice thought of the dark and stately high-ceiled dining-room she had known throughout her married days: of the board from which a royal governor of Massachusetts Colony had eaten, and some governors of the Commonwealth since. [9]
The white population of the colony is 626,000, the Maori population is 42,000. [5]
The good harmony of the colony did not last. [4]
He is one of the ablest lawyers that the colony owns, Richard, and a stanch friend of yours. [9]
At the time of Smith's deposition the colony was in prosperous condition. [4]
On the 19th of June the brave old sailor, Sir George Somers, volunteered to return to the Bermudas in his pinnace to procure hogs and other supplies for the colony. [4]
To the end of his days he enjoyed his bottle after dinner, nay, could scarce get along without it; and mixed a punch or a posset as well as any in our colony. [9]
For the summer of 1905 he leased the Copley Green house at Dublin, New Hampshire, where there was a Boston colony of writing and artistic folk, including many of his long-time friends. [5]
We have no occasion to follow further the fortunes of the Virginia colony, except to relate the story of Pocahontas under her different names of Amonate, Matoaka, Mrs. Rolfe, and Lady Rebecca. [4]
The colony now numbered seven hundred persons. [4]
The colony had now several of the Indians detained in the fort. [4]
The colony was now in fair condition, in good health, and contented; and it was believed, though the belief was not well founded, that they would have lasting peace with the Indians. [4]
The colony was now at its wits end, for there was nothing to eat except the wild products of the country. [4]
That he was not only a born commander of men, but had the interest of the colony at heart, time was to show. [4]
I have had news of you through Mr. Worthington, of your colony, who is just arrived here. [9]
It was a narrow chance that Hudson missed them all, and one may imagine that the fate of the Virginia colony and of the New York settlement would have been different if the explorer of the Hudson had gone up the James. [4]
It appears by Mr. Wingfield's statement that the supply left with the colony was very scant, a store that would only last thirteen weeks and a half, and prudence in the distribution of it, in the uncertainty of Newport's return, was a necessity. [4]
About two hundred men were left in the colony. [4]
So she urged me, and go I did, with a commission from some merchants of Glasgow, to give my visit to the colony more weight. [11]
The day before, May 26th, the colony had been attacked by two hundred Indians (four hundred, Smith says), who were only beaten off when they had nearly entered the fort, by the use of the artillery. [4]
Lord Delaware, a man of the highest reputation for courage and principle, determined to go himself, as Captain-General, to Virginia, in the hope of saving the fortunes of the colony. [4]
It needed a man of tenacious will to hold a colony together in one spot long enough to give it root. [4]
Anne was the maid of Mistress Forrest, who had just come out to grow up with the country, and John was a laborer who came with the first colony in 1607. [4]
The smaller discoveries made in the colony of New South Wales three months before had already started emigrants toward Australia; they had been coming as a stream, but they came as a flood, now. [5]
The colony now lived upon what Smith had provided, "and now they had presidents with all their appurtenances. [4]
The colony of Liberia has been in existence a long time. [7]
Even with this liberal allowance of pastime a great part of the colony still sulked. [4]
In August, Grenville left Ralph Lane in charge of the colony and returned to England, capturing a Spanish ship on the way. [4]
As early as July, "in his sickness time, the President did easily fortell his own deposing from his command," so much did he differ from the Council in the management of the colony. [4]
The better impression is that he was the William Strachey of Saffron Walden, who was married in 1588 and was living in 1620, and that it was his grandson of the same name who was subsequently connected with the Virginia colony. [4]
Hence he has introduced those names in the setting, choosing them entirely at random from the many prominent families of the colony. [9]
During his sojourn in Virginia, or more probably shortly after his return to England, he wrote a brief and bungling narration of his experiences in the colony, and a description of Indian life. [4]

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