transmarine

Example Sentences

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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

How inimical it was could not yet be clearly seen; for the transmarine interests of Rome had not at the time attained a development which invited the mastery of conquered lands by the Roman capitalist.

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

While the kingdom of France was weak, monarchs like Henry II. and Richard I. might dream of extending their transmarine possessions to the detriment of their suzerain at Paris.

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

England would have become a transmarine province of France, it would in time have been absorbed like Brittany.

From A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) by Ranke, Leopold von

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