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How To Use colonist In A Sentence

• Elisabeth found herself with a straggle of colonists in a mosquito-ridden, uncleared jungle where sandflies bored into the skin of the feet and the clay soil was so intractable that nothing would grow.
• Israel has the better excuse, driven half mad by threats and wars and the suicide bombings of the Second Intifada; but a series of queasy concessions to the fanatical colonists who are sometimes miscalled "settlers" have deformed its politics from within. David Bromwich: Rules of Engagement from Baghdad to Gaza
• The baronetage of Nova Scotia was devised in 1624 as a means of promoting the "plantation" of that province, and James announced his intention of creating a hundred baronets, each of whom was to support six colonists for two years (or pay 2000 marks in lieu thereof) and also to pay 1000 marks to Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
• These English colonists were a pious, self - disciplined people who wanted to escape religious persecution.
• In this place, which the colonists designated Glen-lynden, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
• The colonist from England and France not only left some marks of domination in this North America land, but also stamped deep brands on Canadian constitution.
• For most of the century, the theoretical advantages enjoyed by the English colonists did them little good. America Past and Present
• Outside of the cities the monarch, whose private fortune was identical with the state finances, possessed immense domains managed by intendants and supporting a population of serf-colonists. The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Obamacare Constitutional?
• Some of the early colonists were cruel to the native population.
• They learnt their languages and customs and were aided by other European colonists. Times, Sunday Times