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Meanings of whole provinces in English

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Usage of whole provinces in English
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Apollinaris has just reconquered four or five whole provinces without any serious difficulty.
Roma eterna
2
When Your Majesty's ancestors fought in France, whole provinces were held by England.
Wolf hall
3
The plague swept the kingdom with terrific violence, and whole provinces were depopulated.
The Empire of Russia: From the Remotest Periods to the Present T...
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Success followed upon success, and whole provinces, Catalonia and Valencia, were won over.
With Marlborough to Malplaquet: A Story of the Reign of Queen An...
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Beyond lie whole provinces full of mutinous Jugoslavs and Rumanians.
World's War Events Volume 3 / Beginning with the departure of t...
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He discusses exemption of taxes for whole provinces.
Definition & Reality in the General Theory of Political Economy
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St. Francis Xavier arrived in Japan in 1549, baptized great numbers, and whole provinces received the faith.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Other Principal Saints. J...
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Corporations, guilds, cities, and whole provinces possessed rights distinct from those of the rest of the country.
The Eve of the French Revolution
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Cicero's complaint, that Caesar "had confiscated whole provinces and districts at a blow" (De Off.
The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
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Such works as these seem, however, not to have extended over whole provinces as they did in Spain.
Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern
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The revenues of whole provinces went to satisfy mad projects; but the powerful favorite had no need to hesitate.
Quo Vadis: A Narrative of the Time of Nero
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Sometimes our currency was to fail; another time our army was to disband; then whole provinces were to revolt.
The Writings of Thomas Paine — Volume 1 (1774-1779): The America...
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The freedom of the city was also being given now not to single persons only, but to whole provinces.
The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
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At present," he continues, "much the greatest part of whole provinces are employed in this single manufacture."
The Slave Trade, Domestic and Foreign / Why It Exists, and How I...
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Some senators owned whole provinces.
The Old Roman World : the Grandeur and Failure of Its Civilizati...
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They captured cities single-handed, and ruled them afterwards, and they pacified whole provinces, in spite of famine and plague and fever.
The Path to Honour
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Whole provinces across language varieties
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