Lexicographical Neighbors of Dissentions
Literary usage of Dissentions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1804)
"In civil dissentions, the weaker faction endeavoured to strengthen its interest
by entering into secret connexions with the governors of the frontier ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1825)
"ciently into the dissentions and contests, and given specimens of the debates,
in the national, conventional, and .legislative assemblies of France, ..."
3. Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1849)
"ALL Souls' College scandalous, not only for their dissentions and combinations
against each other, but " for their compota- tions, ..."
4. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1812)
"... which had been introduced into that city from the internal dissentions which
had broken out in Pistoia. After some intermediate struggles, the Neri, ..."
5. History of the Island of St. Domingo: From Its First Discovery by Columbus by James Barskett (1824)
"A settlement formed. —Its demolition and re-establishment.—Battle with the
natives — Subjection of the island.—Dissentions among the colonists. ..."
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