transmarine

Example Sentences

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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

And, if the senator chose to indulge more directly in the profits of transmarine commerce, to what extent was he really hindered by the provisions of the law?

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

Relatively, this cost is now higher than the importation of guano from far-away transmarine deposits, which, however, decline in mass in the measure that the demand increases.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel

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

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