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- verb Present participle of
repeople .
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Examples
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And so, since, according to the colonisers themselves, a genocide had been effected, then the queen could overcome with ease of mind any scruples regarding the repeopling of the land with English people and 'making Ireland British,' since there was virtually noone left to dispossess.
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In practical terms I dont know what the effect of disney repeopling its books are.
"But she wanted a tutu" Roger Sutton 2006
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But in Africa, where at present Caius was engaged in the repeopling of Carthage, which he named Junonia, many ominous appearances, which presaged mischief, are reported to have been sent from the gods.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Catastrophes, of its progressive Cultivation, sudden depopulation, and graduall repeopling, of the [illegible] growth of [illegible] several Kingdoms and
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The war was, indeed, to be ended; not by the usual mode of combating armies, but by a total extinction of all the inhabitants of the country, both innocent and guilty -- and Merlin de Thionville, with other members, so perfectly comprehended this detestable project, that they already began to devise schemes for repeopling La Vendee, when its miserable natives should be destroyed.
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New and interesting excavations are made continuously, and I could have remained here the live-long day, watching the gradual disentombment of the beautiful columns, statuary, and other long-buried mementoes of Rome's past greatness -- and, as her foundations were laid bare, rebuilding and repeopling, according to my own ideal fancies, this great temple of eloquence.
Fair Italy, the Riviera and Monte Carlo Comprising a Tour Through North and South Italy and Sicily with a Short Account of Malta W. Cope Devereux
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The statues will have the land all to themselves, -- until the Aztecs, perhaps, repeopling their ancient heritage, shall pay divine honors to these images, whose ugliness will revive the traditions of the classic period of Mexican
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860 Various
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The war was, indeed, to be ended; not by the usual mode of combating armies, but by a total extinction of all the inhabitants of the country, both innocent and guilty -- and Merlin de Thionville, with other members, so perfectly comprehended this detestable project, that they already began to devise schemes for repeopling La Vendee, when its miserable natives should be destroyed.
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They became so confirmed in wickedness, so totally depraved, that God destroyed them all, save one man and his family, whom He accounted as righteous, for the sake of his faithful obedience, and whose seed He preserved for the repeopling of the earth.
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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During the past few years many proposals have been made, and schemes formed, for repeopling the wastes of Syria and Palestine with the surplus population of Europe.
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