transmarine

Example Sentences

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On the other hand, transmarine competition in food materially contributes toward reducing prices: this reduces incomes: the same can be counterbalanced only by improved management: and nine-tenths of the farmers lack the means thereto.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel

Such intelligence the Hebridians probably receive from their transmarine correspondents. 

From Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Johnson, Samuel

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

Wonders were told concerning pillars inlaid with bronze, amber, ivory, mother of pearl, and transmarine tortoise-shells.

From Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero by Curtin, Jeremiah

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