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Sentences ending with territory

At noon we would reach Carson City, the capital of Nevada Territory. [5]
They were there when we acquired the Territory. [7]
How, then, can we make much out of this part of the territory? [7]
There is nothing very elegant or interesting in the record so far, but it all has to do with the annexation of Pango Wango, and, as Blithelygo long afterwards remarked, it shows how nations sometimes acquire territory. [11]
Cut it in twain, and the product is enormous, far transcending any previous developments of our racy Territory. [5]
Was it necessary to the organization of a Territory? [7]
I am pressed to remove him on the ground that he does not attend to the office, nor in fact pass much time in the Territory. [7]
He opened up this great river, and by his simple act was gathered in this great Louisiana territory. [5]
He must, I think, have reasoned to himself in a rapid and unconscious manner, that movement without any apparent cause indicated the presence of some strange living agent, and that no stranger had a right to be on his territory. [1]
This would give them the bridge and free communication with the Sologne, which was French territory. [5]

Sentences containing territory two or more times

No other specification is made, and the only one that could be made is that the restoration of the restriction of 1820, making the United States territory free territory, would dissolve the Union. [7]
Each of them has an appointed territory in which to perform his duties--in the North, the South, the East, the West, in Canada, in Great Britain, and so on--and each must stick to his own territory and not forage beyond its boundaries. [5]
When our Federal Constitution was adopted, we owned no territory beyond the limits or ownership of the States, except the territory northwest of the River Ohio and east of the Mississippi. [7]

More example sentences with the word territory in them

Thenceforward for sixty-one years, and until, in 1848, the last scrap of this Territory came into the Union as the State of Wisconsin, all parties acted in quiet obedience to this ordinance. [7]
If carried, it would recast the international position in the Orient, necessitating new adjustments in Europe, with cession of territory and gifts for gifts in the way of commercial treaties and the settlement of outstanding difficulties. [11]
For I have wives all over this Territory of Utah. [5]
Later he camped with Bob Howland, who, as City Marshal of Aurora, became known as the most fearless man in the Territory, and, still later, with Calvin H. Higbie (Cal), to whom 'Roughing It' would one day be dedicated. [5]
My clerical friends will forgive me for poaching on their sacred territory, in return for an occasional raid upon the medical domain of which they have now and then been accused. [3]
The Mexican troops will evacuate the territory of Texas, passing to the other side of the Rio Grande Del Norte. [7]
This covers the whole ground, from the settlement of a Territory till it reaches the degree of maturity entitling it to form a State Constitution. [7]
Harry had a way of casually mentioning western investments, through lines, the freighting business, and the route through the Indian territory to Lower California, which was calculated to give an importance to his lightest word. [5]
But another raid was nearing, a raid upon British territory this time. [11]
In all the vast territory, away up to the Utah line, over which he had wandered, he met human beings (excluding "Indians and others not taxed ") so rarely that he was in danger of being locoed. [4]
The population's only two hundred--" "That's all right, that's all right--" "And they hadn't any right to elect me; we're not even a territory, there's no Organic Act, the government hasn't any official knowledge of us whatever. [5]
They were permitted to settle anywhere in territory between the 34th and 41st degrees of latitude. [4]
I would like to know, in the case covered by the essay, what condition the people of the Territory are in before they reach the number of ten thousand? [7]
I ask you to go first to St. Louis, in Louisiana territory, and this for two reasons. [9]
If they intended to extend it in the event of acquiring additional territory, why did they not say so? [7]
All we have to do is to spread the average over a wider territory or a longer period of time. [6]
In the mean time the newer doctrines of the "mind cure," the "faith cure," and the rest are encroaching on the territory so long monopolized by that most ingenious of the pseudo-sciences. [6]
Before the Constitution they prohibited its introduction into the Northwestern Territory, the only country we owned then free from it. [7]
By this treaty the Wilmot Proviso was defeated, in so far as it was intended to be a condition of the acquisition of territory. [7]
On the contrary, the various allied governments had entered into compacts for the transference of territory in the event of victory; and had even, by the offer of rewards, sought to play one small nation against another. [9]
By and by the stony foot of the great University will plant itself on this whole territory, and the private recollections which clung so tenaciously and fondly to the place and its habitations will have died with those who cherished them. [6]
At this time the population of the Territory was about twelve or fifteen thousand, and rapidly increasing. [5]
To carry out the plan of colonization may involve the acquiring of territory, and also the appropriation of money beyond that to be expended in the territorial acquisition. [7]
The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. [7]
The inhabitants of the oasis had for centuries been subject to the Pharaohs, and paid them tribute; and among the rights granted to them in return, no Egyptian soldier might cross their border and territory without their permission. [10]
If I gave the letters up, she would not stir, and the disputed territory between us should be by articles conceded by the French. [11]
When we consider the immensity of the British Empire in territory, population, and trade, it requires a stern exercise of faith to believe in the figures which represent Australasia's contribution to the Empire's commercial grandeur. [5]
And it has the elements of motion, of agitation, of life, because the vast territory is filling up with a rapidity unexampled in history. [4]
The failure of the Deseret News, the Church organ, and the only paper then published in the Territory, to notice the massacre until several months afterward, and then only to deny that Mormons were engaged in it. [5]
Indeed, strictly speaking, the Confederacy then owned no country at all; the States respectively owned the country within their limits, and some of them owned territory beyond their strict State limits. [7]
Our guides shot the canoe deftly between two of these, the prow grounded in the yellow mud, and we landed on Spanish territory. [9]
By and by the Acting Governor of the Territory introduced us to other "Gentiles," and we spent a sociable hour with them. [5]
It is said that the aboriginals continue in some force in the huge territory called Queensland. [5]
Not only did that Ordinance prevail, but it was constantly looked to whenever a step was taken by a new Territory to become a State. [7]
In the barracks that morning a gazetted notice was posted, announcing, with such technical language as is the custom, that Sergeant Fones was promoted to be a lieutenant in the Mounted Police Force of the North West Territory. [11]
The great Northwest Territory, including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin, was acquired first, I believe, by the British Government, in part at least, from the French. [7]
It was a Territory yet, without having formed a constitution, in a very regular way, for three years. [7]
Much of their territory is occupied. [9]
At dinner the talk turned on the latest political news: Napoleon's seizure of the Duke of Oldenburg's territory, and the Russian Note, hostile to Napoleon, which had been sent to all the European courts. [2]
It was the talk of the town, it was the talk of the territory. [5]
Any portion of such people that can may revolutionize and make their own of so much of the territory as they inhabit. [7]
We found the state palace of the Governor of Nevada Territory to consist of a white frame one-story house with two small rooms in it and a stanchion supported shed in front--for grandeur--it compelled the respect of the citizen and inspired the Indians with awe. [5]
Orion was a stanch Unionist, and a member of Lincoln's Cabinet had offered him the secretaryship of the new Territory of Nevada. [5]
It is in some way to put it out of the Territory. [7]
And not only so, but the increase of our population may be expected to continue for a long time after that period as rapidly as before, because our territory will not have become full. [7]
To this place Slade was marched, surrounded by a guard, composing the best armed and most numerous force that has ever appeared in Montana Territory. [5]
But finding Prince Sigismund in possession of the most territory and of the hearts of the people, the earl thought it best to assist the prince against the Turk, rather than Busca against the prince. [4]
As it was, she ruled in a neutral territory where she was the only woman. [11]
One hundred and seventy-five men had marched into that territory out of which now are carved the great states of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, and to most of them the thing was a picnic, a jaunt which would soon be finished. [9]
The world never saw such a spectacle before, so vast a territory informed with one uniform spirit of energy and progress, and people tumbling into it from all the world, eager for the fair field and free opportunity. [4]
If it be said that the only legitimate object of acquiring territory is to furnish homes for white men, this measure effects that object, for emigration of colored men leaves additional room for white men remaining or coming here. [7]
We've got to round out our territory, and--" Washington's further observations were broken off by Laura, who whisked him off to another part of the room, and reminded him that they must make their adieux. [5]
I submit the resolutions of the Legislature of Colorado, which evidence the patriotic spirit of the people of the Territory. [7]
What is the reason that Kansas was not fit to come into the Union when it was organized into a Territory, in Judge Douglas's view? [7]
Fuller, however, always ready for an emergency, sent out a flood of complimentaries to the school-teachers of New York and adjacent territory, and the house was crammed. [5]
And I am proud to say I am the most conceited ass in the Territory. [5]
On this whole proposition, including the appropriation of money with the acquisition of territory, does not the expediency amount to absolute necessity--that without which the government itself cannot be perpetuated? [7]
We take justifiable pride in the glittering figures of our extension of territory, our numerical growth, in the increase of wealth, and in our rise to the potential position of almost the first nation in the world. [4]
It included the present States of Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, and Iowa; also the Territory of Minnesota, and the present bone of contention, Kansas and Nebraska. [7]
During this long period of time, Nebraska (the Nebraska Territory, not the State of as we know it now) had remained substantially an uninhabited country, but now emigration to and settlement within it began to take place. [7]
Why are the people of a Territory and the people of a State therein lumped together, and their relation to the Constitution therefore treated as being precisely the same? [7]
Soon he had passed the limit of his former excursions and entered new territory. [13]
The extent of our territory in that region depended not on any treaty-fixed boundary (for no treaty had attempted it), but on revolution. [7]
A Romany tent or a Romany camp, with its families, was the whole territory of their enterprise, designs and patriotism. [11]
Spite of Bai's opposition, Moses had been named regent of the new territory, while he, Hosea, himself was to command the soldiers who would defend the frontiers, and marshal fresh troops from the Israelite mercenaries, who had already borne themselves valiantly in many a fray. [10]
But Germany has only 1,770; Belgium, 510; France, 2,086; and Russia only in her expansion of territory leads Europe in this respect, and has now 30,000 square miles of coal-beds. [4]
First it is one place; then another; then some more; and it goes on spreading and spreading, and at last the territory is all occupied, and nobody can imagine what you feel like, nor how unpleasant it is. [5]
Whether the spot on which the blood of our citizens was shed, as in his message declared, was or was not within the territory of Spain, at least after the treaty of 1819, until the Mexican revolution. [7]
They thought the officials should have been chosen from among themselves from among prominent citizens who had earned a right to such promotion, and who would be in sympathy with the populace and likewise thoroughly acquainted with the needs of the Territory. [5]
All that space of time that runs from the beginning of the settlement of the Territory until there is sufficiency of people to make a State constitution,--all that portion of time popular sovereignty is given up. [7]
Iowa lay north of the line, and had been organized as a Territory and come into the Union as a State without disturbing that Compromise. [7]
Placing the number of mills in the Territory at one hundred, this gives to each the labor of producing $300,000 in bullion during the twelve months. [5]
He was Governor of Michigan territory, and ex-officio Superintendent of Indian Affairs, from the 9th of October, 1813, till the 31st of July, 1831--a period of seventeen years, nine months, and twenty-two days. [7]
A large portion of her territory has been depopulated, and a severe loss has been sustained by the destruction of property. [7]
But there is no more foundation for the belief that he ever visited the territory of Virginia, of which he was styled governor, than that he accompanied Sir Humphrey Gilbert to Newfoundland. [4]
Again, is not Nebraska, while a Territory, a part of us? [7]
The best known names in the Territory of Nevada were those belonging to these long-tailed heroes of the revolver. [5]
It seems to me, I said, that the great additions which have been made by realism to the territory of literature consist largely in swampy, malarious, ill-smelling patches of soil which had previously been left to reptiles and vermin. [6]
It seemed to me, as far as I could recollect, there was only a chair here and there and yonder, five or six of them scattered over this territory, and I thought maybe after I found that chair I might find the next one. [5]
Whatever motive a man or a set of men may have for making annexation of property or territory, it is very easy to assert, but much less easy to disprove, that it is necessary for the wants of the country. [7]
Some people are malicious enough to think that if the devil were set at liberty and told to confine himself to Nevada Territory, that he would come here--and look sadly around, awhile, and then get homesick and go back to hell again. [5]
Of these, 1,000 lived in Gippsland, a patch of territory the size of fifteen or sixteen Rhode Islands: they did not diminish as fast as some of the other communities; indeed, at the end of forty years there were still 200 of them left. [5]
Then there was little or no settlement in the northern part of Texas, a considerable portion of which lay north of the Missouri line; and in the resolutions admitting her into the Union, the Missouri restriction was expressly extended westward across her territory. [7]
It would have led them through Bavarian territory, and thereby perhaps afforded Duke William, the ruler of the country, occasion to abjure his neutrality and turn openly against the Smalcalds. [10]
And as he leaned against the faded blue cushions regarding with interest the buildings he passed, he seemed, like an ambassador, to convert the cab in which he rode into United States territory. [9]
The Mormons were largely in the majority, and had the additional advantage of being peculiarly under the protection of the Mormon government of the Territory. [5]
It covers a large territory, the streets run at right angles, the avenues to the ocean take the names of the states. [4]
You want to know something about the route between California and Nevada Territory? [5]
If they but knew the principles of that government for which you fight, they would renounce the English allegiance, and the whole of this territory would be yours. [9]
He tells us jurisdiction was exercised between the two rivers, but he does not tell us it was exercised over all the territory between them. [7]
Each spoke has its own territory in the circumference, for which it is responsible. [6]
When they adjourned it was estimated that every citizen owned about three franchises, and it was believed that unless Congress gave the Territory another degree of longitude there would not be room enough to accommodate the toll-roads. [5]
Whether that spot is or is not within the territory which was wrested from Spain by the revolutionary government of Mexico. [7]
The industry itself is one of the first that comes with the invasion of new territory, and makes one think of man's first work in the world: to fell the tree and till the soil. [11]
All our territory is mapped out as to its sanitary conditions; why not have it colored as to its effect upon the spirits and the enjoyment of life? [4]
However, my standard is a pretty wide one and covers a good deal of territory. [5]
So again, he insists that the separate national existence of Mexico shall be maintained; but he does not tell us how this can be done, after we shall have taken all her territory. [7]
He ruled, by inheritance and conquest, with many chiefs under him, over a large territory with not defined borders, lying on the James, the York, the Rappahannock, the Potomac, and the Pawtuxet Rivers. [4]
The statements of Indians in the neighborhood of the scene of the massacre: these statements are shown, not only by Cradlebaugh and Rodgers, but by a number of military officers, and by J. Forney, who was, in 1859, Superintendent of Indian Affairs for the Territory. [5]
No, not one inch into a northern territory. [9]

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