Sentence examples for old colony from inspiring English sources

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

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

"It's not like I'm the last governor leaving the old colony with a feather in his hat," Mr. Broomfield said.

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

My friend Suzette, who did the flowers there, has been with Sirio Maccioni since he got off the boat from Europe, when he was a captain at the old Colony restaurant.

In Macao, the old colony on the southern coast of China, he was chief of the military command from 1949 to 1951, and from 1954 to 1956 he was on the NATO headquarters staff in Norfolk, England.

Many old colonies were bought and cleared.

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

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.