transmarine

Example Sentences

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Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, are to be separated from England, which is of course to detach itself from all its transmarine dependencies.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart

The long struggle was over, and England now retained nothing of her old transmarine possessions save Calais and the Channel Islands.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 5 English History by Various

But the flame of insurrection had spread throughout Aragon, Valencia, and Navarre, and was speedily communicated to his transmarine possessions of Sardinia and Sicily.

From The History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic — Volume 1 by Prescott, William Hickling

An oath was required from the bishops, who were assembled at Carthage, that they would support the succession of his son Hilderic, and that they would renounce all foreign or transmarine correspondence.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 by Milman, Henry Hart

The conclusion therefore follows, that it is right that the Government should have the management of the whole of the transmarine postal communication, as it also has that of the communication within the country.

From Ocean Steam Navigation and the Ocean Post by Rainey, Thomas