Low Countries

How To Use Low Countries In A Sentence

• The old printed matters of the sixteenth century formed an extremely rare treasury; all the pieces, pamphlets, and placards on the reform of the Low Countries were kept together in a "varia" volume, thus constituting a unique ensemble. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
• This can be seen in figure 39 in a transitional-type bitstock (accession 319556) from the Low Countries. Woodworking Tools 1600-1900
• Spain, in particular, feared for her possessions in northern Italy and the Low Countries.
• The original Marshall Plan was America's strategy to reinvigorate a war-ravaged Europe by pumping in money to allow countries to rebuild, reindustrialise and remove trade barriers. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• A huge south-westerly gale originating in the Atlantic Ocean swept across Ireland, Britain, the Low Countries, and northern Germany, causing at least 25,000 deaths. Weatherwatch: The Grote Mandrenke
• I came in from the sides like a well drilled eighteenth century army attacking some fortified town in the Low Countries.
• Lipsius saith of himself, that he was [786] humani generis quidem paedagogus voce et stylo, a grand signior, a master, a tutor of us all, and for thirteen years he brags how he sowed wisdom in the Low Countries, as Ammonius the philosopher sometimes did in Alexandria, [787] cum humanitate literas et sapientiam cum prudentia: antistes sapientiae, he shall be Sapientum Octavus. Anatomy of Melancholy
• That meant it could safely be assumed the strongest gusts would affect Northern France and the Low Countries.
• Just as Cologne traded Rhine and Mosel wines to the Baltic and the Low Countries in exchange for herrings and stockfish, Frankfurt did the same with Alsace wines.
• This town, as I observed before, belongs to the Bishop of Liege, but was now in a state of tumult and confusion, on account of the general revolt of the Low Countries, the townsmen taking part with the Netherlanders, notwithstanding the bishopric was a neutral State. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete