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Example sentences for "colonial days"

  • Colonial days" is the felicitous term given by Rev.

  • The Book of, Judges is a record of those "colonial days;" and they are described also in the first part of the book which bears the name of the prophet Samuel.

  • The streams of the town are known as the Otter Kill, which flows through West Chester and is joined at Lincolndale by the Cromeline Creek, which was known in Colonial days as the "River.

  • Lake Maretange, upon which one of the great land patents (Evans) cornered in Colonial days, is now known as Binnewater Pond.

  • EARLE, Colonial Days in Old New York, 51; and for mention of other cases, in connection with Dutch wedding gifts, see ibid.

  • Colonial Days in Church and School on Little River, Pasquotank County 46 VI.

  • Among them were Colonel Thomas Swann and Colonel William Swann, both in colonial days Speakers of the Assembly; three members of the family by the name of Samuel Swann, and John Swann, members of Congress.

  • The decorations are very simple and follow out the idea of Colonial days, there being no pieces that are not in actual use.

  • This was known in Colonial days as the "priest hole," and it was here, so the legend runs, that French refugees were secreted during the French and Indian wars.

  • Here, in Colonial days, wrong-doers were tied to be whipped.

  • The partially panelled walls, the quaint windows with wide sills, the large and cheerful fireplaces in which the original dogs still do duty, belong distinctively to colonial days.

  • The old-fashioned garden, with its box-borders and its wealth of old-time flowers so popular in colonial days, lies at the right of the orchard.

  • For instances of that, we have only to go back to our great-grandfathers' time, for a white finish was a popular fad in colonial days.

  • On the first landing is a little light-stand, now so rarely seen, which was designed about 1765, and still holds the guest candles which were used in colonial days to light the family to bed.

  • With some few exceptions the methods of cultivation were substantially the same as those of colonial days, and were marked by crudeness, waste and a general adherence to rule-of-thumb principles.

  • His father, Joseph Chatfield Alcox, was a farmer and mechanic whose ancestors, then bearing the name of Alcocke, had setlled in eastern Massachusetts in colonial days.

  • The literary product up to the middle of the century presents generally from its early years the appearance of an indistinguishable mass, as in colonial days, in which neither titles nor authors are eminent.

  • Even though organs were very expensive in colonial days, by 1700 the Episcopal Church at Port Royal owned the first pipe organ brought to America from Europe.

  • Organs, harpsichords and violins were popular musical instruments in colonial days in Virginia.

  • Education In colonial days in Virginia, education was considered a personal family matter.

  • In this Neck where one is never far from the water, river plantations were the rule in colonial days, and it is an unusual fact that Colonel Joseph Ball established his seat in the forest.

  • In Colonial days a very high state of culture was in existence among the great plantations of the Northern Neck and their contributions to the development of this country have included several of the great heroes of the nation.

  • The living-room was stripped of paper and became again what it had been in colonial days, a spacious dining-room paneled from ceiling to floor.

  • A belle that would have swayed three states--in colonial days.

  • After the Latin-American countries had become independent, there was no more commercial intercourse between them and the United States than there had been in colonial days and no more community of feeling.

  • The primary factor which determined the territorial limits of each republic is to be found in the existence in colonial days of certain administrative divisions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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