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Definition of Emigrants
1. emigrant [n] - See also: emigrant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Emigrants
Literary usage of Emigrants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"After this there was t gradual decline in the number of British emigrants till
1861, when it sank to 91770, which decrease was followed, with changes, ..."
2. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"NEWS FROM SOME IRISH emigrants. In an article entitled ' With the emigrants,'
which appeared in this Eeview in July 1882,1 gave an account of the departure ..."
3. A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and Historical, of Commerce and by John Ramsey McCulloch, Vethake, Henry (1852)
"(emigrants.—It will be seen from the subjoined accounts, that the number of
emigrants to Canada and the United States, was very decidedly greater in 1831 ..."
4. The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by Isaac Smith Homans, William B. Dana (1846)
"About four-fifths of all the English emigrants wont to the United States, ...
Of the Scotch emigrants, only one-third went to the United States, ..."
5. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"But the emigrants lingered, to rest the oxen and horses, till the rains began,
... The town was well fitted to be the gathering place of emigrants, ..."
6. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico by John Russell Bartlett (1854)
"Janos, an old military post—Its decline—Aid a party of American emigrants—A
Thomsonian doctor—Difficulty in fording the Casas Grandes river—Arrival at ..."
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