transmarine

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Hides her red hands in gloves, pinches up her lithe waist, And makes herself wretched with transmarine taste; She loses her fresh country charm when she takes Any mirror except her own rivers and lakes.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell

The laws and language, the manners and titles, of the French nation and Latin church, were introduced into these transmarine colonies.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 5 by Milman, Henry Hart

Germany, however, is not well favoured with respect to seaports, for in its transmarine trade it is largely dependent on foreign seaports—namely, ports in Belgium, Holland, France, Italy, and Austria.

From Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) by Eaton, Seymour

In these we see the demand for land, for colonial assignations, for transmarine settlements, for a renewal or extension of the corn law, perpetually recurring.

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

Heyn was employed by the Dutch West India Company, which from the year 1623 onwards, carried the Spanish war into the transmarine possessions of Spain and Portugal.

From The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century by Haring, Clarence Henry