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Mention five provinces gained by Rome during the period of conquest,
Ancient Rome : from the earliest times down to 476 A. D. Robert Franklin Pennell
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Belgium, during the early stage of their history -- Roman conquest,
Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915
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Produced by a shock or a revelation, as two gases lit will, in a sharp explosion, unite to form a liquid wholly unlike either, so after a great conquest,
Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance Hilaire Belloc 1911
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Is it not the act of patriotism to resist spoliation and conquest,
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At a synod held in Rouen some six years after his great conquest,
The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897
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In virtue of his pre-eminent qualities both as a statesman and as a general, as well as because of the enduring importance of his conquest,
South American Fights and Fighters And Other Tales of Adventure Cyrus Townsend Brady 1890
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“We expect a bloody summer in New York and Canada,” he wrote to his brother, and even while the Canadian expedition was coming to a disastrous close, and was bringing hostile invasion instead of the hoped-for conquest,
George Washington Lodge, Henry Cabot 1889
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But when the necessity comes for increased taxation and anticipated conscriptions, Louis Napoleon must have recourse to the real passions of the French _bourgeoisie_ and peasantry -- the love of conquest,
Correspondence & Conversations of Alexis de Tocqueville with Nassau William Senior from 1834 to 1859, Volume 2 Alexis de Tocqueville 1832
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Letsom; she fancied that there was a similarity in their situations, and she felt a kindred spark of emulation glow within her breast, as she hoped to conduct herself with equal forbearance and propriety; but, ah! the truant heart, the truant eyes of Mary frequently wandered towards that part of the table where, in all the pride of conquest,
Substance and Shadow; or, the Fisherman's Daughter of Brighton Anonymous 1812
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From the age of Nebuchadnezzar to the Macedonian conquest,
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