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  • As for the little country of Samaria and Sichem, more fertile than that of Jerusalem, it was re-peopled by foreign colonies, sent there by Assyrian kings, who took the name of Samaritans.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • How could the name of our common father, Noah, who re-peopled the world, be unknown to all those who were indebted to him for life?

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Yet, will not this world be re-peopled, and the children of a saved pair of lovers, in some to me unknown and unattainable seclusion, wandering to these prodigious relics of the ante-pestilential race, seek to learn how beings so wondrous in their achievements, with imaginations infinite, and powers godlike, had departed from their home to an unknown country?

    The Last Man 2003

  • We talked of what might arise on this desert earth, if, two or three being saved, it were slowly re-peopled. —

    The Last Man 2003

  • Emperor Claudius re-peopled it, and called it Julia Traducta.

    Travels in Morocco 2003

  • Years after the waters had subsided, and the earth had been re-peopled by these seven men, their leader began to build a vast pyramid, whose top should reach to heaven.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

  • Only a few families remained, and from them the Aztecs, Chichemecs, and other barbarous tribes by whom the country was re-peopled, derived that knowledge of the arts and sciences upon which their own civilization was founded.

    Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern Edward Burnett Tylor

  • Mr. Norway with a wealth of interesting material, which he has used judiciously and well; each grey ruin of castle and abbey he has re-erected and re-peopled in the most delightful way.

    Highways & Byways in Sussex E.V. Lucas

  • The earth was re-peopled from the loins of Sakechak; from him, from one family of Caddos, are all men descended.

    Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3) James Athearn Jones

  • Sin-cursed and sinless worlds are coming to an end continually, and as rapidly are new ones flung out or old ones re-peopled to serve as garden plots to bear fruit in the form of created intelligences who serve and admire God through choice.

    Life in a Thousand Worlds William Shuler Harris

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