Sentence examples for old colonies from inspiring English sources

Many old colonies were bought and cleared.

Holland's Muslims came from Morocco and Turkey as well as its old colonies, Indonesia and Suriname.

It contrasts sharply with the welcomes she received during her first visits to the old colonies in the 1950s.

While the rest of the developed world is circling Africa like a kettle of vultures, the French seem to be getting sentimental about the aesthetics of their old colonies.

As the old colonies gained independence, Brits returned home, and there were fewer and fewer places to stash their hard-earned pounds out of the reach of Her Majesty's tax collectors.

Fortunately for his dining companions, regional chauvinism does not come into play at La Fonda del Sol, which is so broadly Spanish ("modern") as to include accents of old colonies and rival powers.

By 1641, more than twenty thousand colonists had settled in Massachusetts, entirely dwarfing the "Old Colony".

Old Colony Way, 16924-Leesa A. Chais and Leesa A. Shem Tov to James Schlackman and Elizabeth Sclackman, $599,000.

The act also divided the old colony of Canada into the separate provinces of Ontario and Quebec.

We stopped at Old Colony, a squat brick project near Carson Beach, on the southern edge of the peninsula.

You'll meet...Portuguese curious about their old colony, South Africans on a beach break and well-heeled French creating a St.-Tropez buzz.