Word: dominione
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...commercial interests will not be imperiled by failure to aid the insurgents.- (a) We enjoy considerable Cuban trade under Spanish dominion: Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 1895.- (b) Such trade is not now menaced by Spain: Boston Herald, 19 Oct. 1895.- (c) If Cuba gained freedom without our aid we should still enjoy bulk of the trade.- (1) Proximity.- (2) Existing reciprocal advantages...
...Pacific vitally. Our chief competitors at sea for a century have been the little islands across the Atlantic and here we have similar competition growing up in three small islands across the Pacific. For the honor of this country, it is to be hoped that we may acquire dominion over the Hawaiian Islands as an offset to the Japanese hold on Corea...
There are sixteen members in the Dominion of Canada, twelve of them residing in Nova Scotia...
...beyond a question that one's intellectual dominion is greatly extended even by the mere ability to read other languages than his own. For it is precisely those works which are most characteristic, which most deepen and widen the mind, which quicken the sense of beauty, which beckon the imagination-it is precisely those which are untranslatable, nay, which are so in exact proportion as they are masterly. This is especially true of the great poets, the glow of whose genius fuses the word and the idea into a rich Corinthian metal which no imitation can replace. One feels this...
...ground of which they have been admitted to the school; and one hundred and thirty, or more than one-half, come from homes outside of New England-eighty-two living in eastern, southern, and central states, thirty-three in states beyond the Mississippi River, nine in the Dominion of Canada, and six in foreign countries...