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Definition of Embassies

1. embassy [n] - See also: embassy

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embassies

Literary usage of Embassies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Diplomacy in the Orient by John Watson Foster (1903)
"Her vessels of war did not come into Chinese waters to awaken alarm and commit out- 1 As to Portuguese embassies, 2 Hist. ..."

2. The Chinese Repository edited by Elijah Coleman Bridgman, Samuel Wells Willaims (1838)
"If his papers do no more than show the chief reasons for the failure of former embassies, and draw attention to the subject of opening a direct intercourse ..."

3. International Law and the World War by James Wilford Garner (1920)
"Care of Belligerent Interests by Neutral Embassies and Legations. Following the practice in recent wars, the various belligerent governments upon the ..."

4. Report on the Foreign Service by National Civil Service League (1919)
"THE PURCHASE OF Embassies The need of the purchase of embassies and ... The recognition of the need of Government-owned embassies and consulates was the ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"It would have been strange, indeed, if Theodosius had purchased, by the loss of honor, a secure and solid tranquillity, or Embassies ^ h*8 ..."

6. History of Federal Government in Greece and Italy by Edward Augustus Freeman, John Bagnell Bury (1893)
"final conqueror of the Illyrian Queen, sent Ambassadors to the Roman two Leagues, who explained the causes of the war with Teuta, Embassies and of the ..."

7. The History of Greece by Connop Thirlwall (1855)
"Athenian embassies. HISTORY OF GREECE. tween the military operations of a ... They must send embassies, not only to Peloponnesus — where the last had not ..."

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