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  • A lot of them emigrated, if you canbelieve the news.†   (source)
  • It may have been that they were weak people, ill suited for the rigors of emigration, its humiliations and compromises, its competing demands of self-discipline and adventurousness.†   (source)
  • It's a tanner who emigrated from Poland in the late nineteenth century.†   (source)
  • Gitl and Yitzchak had emigrated to Israel, where they lived, close friends, until well into their seventies.†   (source)
  • ") Grisha had been born in Sevastopol, which he claimed to remember ("black water, salt") though his parents had emigrated when he was two.†   (source)
  • But those first nine expeditions embarked for Tibet from Darjeeling, where many Sherpas had emigrated, and where they had developed a reputation among the resident colonialists for being hardworking, affable, and intelligent.†   (source)
  • My mother, Clara, born in Poland, emigrated to Argentina as a young child.†   (source)
  • They couldn't last without terrestrial resupply, so they emigrated to the Outback and named the survey world after their moon.†   (source)
  • He was twenty-two years old, born in Ireland in 1868; his family emigrated to the United States in 1871 and in August that year moved to Chicago, just in time to experience the Great Fire.†   (source)
  • Adnan had done well since emigrating over a decade earlier; he owned and managed four Subway franchises in New Orleans.†   (source)
  • For example, Abu Aharon, an early Kabbalist who emigrated from Baghdad to Italy, was said to perform miracles through the power of the Sacred Names.†   (source)
  • Not when Chacko emigrated to Canada.†   (source)
  • Decrees appeared on the walls stating that all families who voluntarily came to the Umschlagplatz to 'emigrate' would get a loaf of bread and a kilo of jam per person, and such volunteer families would not be separated.†   (source)
  • The family that used to run the place, after arriving in the city following the Second World War, and flourishing there for three generations, had recently sold up and emigrated to Canada.†   (source)
  • However, in 1956 circumstances in her life led Sayuri to emigrate to the United States.†   (source)
  • Several, most recently his gynecologist, had gone to work in the States, and some of those had clearly gone to work for Farmer with that aim in mind, to be trained by Doktè Paul, then to emigrate, and he always felt obliged to help them leave.†   (source)
  • We can ignore Gideon; he sold his shares and emigrated to America.†   (source)
  • 1886 The Japanese government lifts its ban on emigration, allowing its citizens for the first time to make permanent moves to other countries.†   (source)
  • Eventually your family emigrated to North America and got involved with Camp Jupiter—".†   (source)
  • That year, and for the following few years, the representative was a Mr. Senn, a former director ofprisons in his native Sweden who had emigrated to Rhodesia.†   (source)
  • At that time, it was still possible to obtain emigration permits from Palestine.†   (source)
  • The shooter was a recent emigrant from Greece who had been celebrating a Greek soccer victory when he'd fired his gun at the floor.†   (source)
  • He had resisted all ideas of mass emigration and enforced complete isolation on the warren, thereby almost certainly saving it from extinction.†   (source)
  • Their depredations may have been what forced King Palancar to emigrate.†   (source)
  • Henri emigrated to Illea last year when he was seventeen.†   (source)
  • It often happens that emigrants like your mother can't remember parts of the original, so they make things up and then forget that the story was ever different.†   (source)
  • The purpose of medical training isn't to fuel emigration but to address health needs at home.†   (source)
  • It is to be carried out by a nonviolent invasion and cultural transformation of that huge slice of America into a Mexamerican border-land, where the dominant culture is Hispanic and Anglos will feel alienated and begin to emigrate.†   (source)
  • The following year Vasil emigrated to America and changed his last name to Strank.†   (source)
  • His family emigrated from a rural section of the Dominican Republic to a neighborhood on the edge of Harlem, and Franklin was tapped as a sixth grader into Prep for Prep.†   (source)
  • A year or two after emigrating, she happened to be in Paris on the anniversary of the Russian invasion of her country.†   (source)
  • I remember a story my classmate Gaby told me when I was twelve or thirteen, a story which he'd heard from a cousin who had emigrated to America, a story which we all believed for the longest time.†   (source)
  • Among these emigrants were Jose and Felicitas Faz.†   (source)
  • My mother and father emigrated from Taiwan to New York City to raise a family.†   (source)
  • BORN IN TIDEWATER VIRGINIA on February 11, 1732 (by the Old Style calendar), George Washington was the great-grandson of John Washington, who had emigrated from Northampton, England, in 1657.†   (source)
  • A silver-haired, dark-eyed man whose parents had emigrated from Albania to Tennessee, he never thought it particularly funny when I asked him if they still had a football program at the University of Tennessee.†   (source)
  • Thanks to the old man's "magic papers," Jax had gotten his brother and sister out of Jamaica during the repressive Manley years when established professionals were all but prohibited from emigrating and certainly not with personal funds.†   (source)
  • Then, ignoring her, he turns to the defectors and in the voice he reserves for his longest speeches declares: "You are free to emigrate to whatever country will accept you!†   (source)
  • We see a changed Republic of Ireland today: a modern, open economy; after the long years of emigration, people beginning to come back for the quality of life you now offer; a country part of Europe's mainstream, having made the most of European structural funds but no longer reliant on them; some of the best business brains in the business world; leaders in popular culture, U2, the Corrs, Boyzone, B-Witched; a country that had the courage to elect its first woman president and liked it…†   (source)
  • Immigrant is a word coined in America, for migrants who came in, rather than went out, the meaning of emigrant, which was how Europe saw it.†   (source)
  • Any new inventions, emigration, or interkingdom trade must be submitted, reviewed, and sanctioned by Lord Astaroth's embassy.†   (source)
  • He turned almost blue with the thought that she might have-indeed, must have-met a lover on the road, in which case his triple race would have been for nothing, and his shame would drive him to emigrate to Argentina.†   (source)
  • The other says it was put in to prevent voluntary and beneficial emigrations from Europe to America.†   (source)
  • But people we talked to rarely thought of emigrating themselves; they thought of forcing or persuading others to emigrate to relieve crowding—and to reduce their own taxes.†   (source)
  • Those in the emigrant generations who could not reassert brute survival died young and far from home.†   (source)
  • He had emigrated to the United States after his wife's death.†   (source)
  • Since Aunt Ruth, the midwife, was forced to retire, the black women had to emigrate to the city to deliver their infants.†   (source)
  • If we had only had the money to emigrate, he would have married me long since.   (source)
    emigrate = move to another country
  • They shared a lot of history—Syria, emigration to America and New Orleans, work in the trades.†   (source)
  • What I want to know is: will I have to go into exile or emigrate when the book comes out?†   (source)
  • "After thinking long and hard, we've decided to emigrate to Cape Town."†   (source)
  • My family emigrated to the United States in 1960.†   (source)
  • They could convert, or emigrate to Israel.†   (source)
  • We have to close the business as soon as possible and emigrate.†   (source)
  • They were going to emigrate, but had to postpone their plans because Charlotte was pregnant.†   (source)
  • "We originally planned to emigrate to South Africa this year," she said hurriedly.†   (source)
  • She remembered as if it were yesterday how her emigration plans had left Paul speechless.†   (source)
  • There are some excellent roads out of Luneburg to Bremen and the emigrant ships.†   (source)
  • Why can't we make an official emigration application, like Uncle Max and Papa suggested?"†   (source)
  • Can you tell me whether they succeeded in emigrating to South Africa?†   (source)
  • "Thousands upon thousands of emigrants have already been subjected to that," she argued.†   (source)
  • YINONG YOUNG-XU emigrated from Shanghai to the United States when he was sixteen.†   (source)
  • In the safety of emigration, they all naturally came out in favor of fighting.†   (source)
  • Why, if I were a young man I would emigrate to the Moon myself.†   (source)
  • By the time he had trudged back to Julie and the others, he had scanned the rest of the emigrants.†   (source)
  • We hope that they will choose to stay and we hope to encourage others to emigrate to the Moon.†   (source)
  • Half of his friends had emigrated, and half of the half that remained had died.†   (source)
  • It doesn't bother you that Sabina has also emigrated to Switzerland?†   (source)
  • They solved death, milord, and most of them won't emigrate despite endless roomier planets.†   (source)
  • They were using their staves to hurry the emigrants and they were not being gentle.†   (source)
  • Anybody could have it—just before emigrating to a sparsely settled planet.†   (source)
  • I was glad that I was born nine months after my mother emigrated.†   (source)
  • My name is Sansom, Clyde B. Sansom— Administrative Officer in the Emigration Control Service.†   (source)
  • How strange that the emigrant villagers are shouters, hollering face to face.†   (source)
  • I minded that the emigrant villagers shook their heads at my sister and me.†   (source)
  • She is very mean, isn't she?" the emigrant villagers would say.†   (source)
  • Perhaps they couldn't shorten that far gaze that lasts only a few years after a Chinese emigrates.†   (source)
  • Living among one's own emigrant villagers can give a good Chinese far from China glory and a place.†   (source)
  • And now she would be caught in there for ever and ever, down below in the hold like a moth in a bottle, sailing back and forth across the hideous dark ocean, with the emigrants going one way and the logs of wood the other.†   (source)
  • Upon hearing of Redd's coup and fearing the kind of ruler she'd be, many citizens had immediately packed their bags and tried to emigrate to Boarderland, that independent country separated from Wonderland by the tangled expanse of Outerwilderbeastia and overseen by King Arch.†   (source)
  • Mr. Kinnear was a Tory gentleman, and William Lyon Mackenzie took the part of the poor Scots and Irish, and the emigrant settlers generally.†   (source)
  • By the time Chacko emigrated to Canada, the family's only income came from the rubber estate that adjoined the Ayemenem House and the few coconut trees in the compound.†   (source)
  • Under the "family history" tab, Molly finds a sepia-toned picture of Agneta and Bernard Schatzman, who emigrated from Germany in 1915, resided at 26 Elizabeth Street.†   (source)
  • My friend had decided late in life to emigrate to one of the Outback colonies and I'd gotten a good deal on a place just a klick down the corridor from my office.†   (source)
  • One of the researchers who developed the deciphering system for the Red Coast Project emigrated to Europe and wrote a book last year.†   (source)
  • In 1965 his works were banned in East Germany because of their attacks on the government, and in 1976 Biermann was forced by the authorities to emigrate to West Germany.†   (source)
  • Some areas saw even greater emigration: Harlan County, for example, which was brought to fame in an Academy Award–winning documentary about coal strikes, lost 30 percent of its population to migration.†   (source)
  • …person was her cousin, a man of considerable determination and intellect, who even when he was young had never cared much for play, who seemed to laugh only rarely, who had won medals in school and decided to become a doctor, who had successfully emigrated abroad, who returned once a year to visit his parents, and who, along with eighty-five others, was blown by a truck bomb to bits, literally to bits, the largest of which, in Nadia's cousin's case, were a head and twothirds of an arm.†   (source)
  • The letter said that he, their father, had retired from his carbon-black job and was emigrating to Australia, where he had got a job as Chief of Security at a ceramics factory, and that he couldn't take Estha with him.†   (source)
  • A Polish Jew, one Leon Warm, emigrated from Poland and visited the Hosenfelds in West Germany on the way.†   (source)
  • It had been more than a century since old Vladimir Sholokov, Old Earth emigrant, master lepidopterist, and EM systems engineer, had handcrafted the first hawking mat for his beautiful young niece on New Earth.†   (source)
  • Aunt Pauline said we could not be left to starve, no matter how bad my father might be, as her sister was her own flesh and blood and the children were innocent; and Uncle Roy said who ever said anything about starving, what he had in mind was emigration.†   (source)
  • The only link we had to our future was a name scrawled on a piece of paper my father tucked in his shirt pocket as we boarded the ship: a man who had emigrated ten years earlier and now, according to his Kinvara relatives, owned a respectable dining establishment in New York City.†   (source)
  • The ship was lying alongside the dock; it was a heavy hulking brute that had come across from Liverpool, and later I was told that it brought logs of wood eastward from the Canadas, and emigrants westward the other way, and both were viewed in much the same light, as cargo to be ferried.†   (source)
  • She had a friend — a fellow-servant there — called Mary Whitney; which was, you may recall, the false name she herself gave, when escaping to the United States, with her — with James McDermott; if indeed it was an escape, and not a forced emigration of sorts.†   (source)
  • She was a Catholic, and travelling with her daughter's two children, who had been left behind when the family emigrated; and now she was taking them to Montreal, as her son-in-law had paid their passage; and I helped her with the children, and later I was glad I did so.†   (source)
  • …enough manner, she manages to tell me as little as possible, or as little as possible of what I want to learn; although I have managed to ascertain a good deal about her family situation as a child, and about her crossing of the Atlantic, as an emigrant; but none of it is very far out of the ordinary — only the usual poverty and hardships, etc. Those who believe in the hereditary nature of insanity might take some comfort in the fact that her father was an inebriate, and possibly an…†   (source)
  • "Well, I'm searching for my family, who were trying to emigrate to South Africa before the Second World War.†   (source)
  • You're going to emigrate?"†   (source)
  • We have to emigrate.†   (source)
  • "Alma says she can handle the threats," Max continued, "but most of the shopkeepers throw her out, and the kosher store owners have emigrated."†   (source)
  • While the Altona branch was scraping by on sales to people emigrating to America from the port in Hamburg, the Lubeck shop was operating at a loss.†   (source)
  • They had emigrated a year before Hitler came to power, and Aaron was now working for a construction company outside Cape Town.†   (source)
  • And since the two men refused to abandon their homeland, he and Clara had given up on any thoughts of emigration.†   (source)
  • "If we're in the authorities' files as potential emigrants, they'll confiscate the profits from the auction, too."†   (source)
  • I'm sorry to tell you that there'll be no emigrant ship leaving for Cape Town in the foreseeable future."†   (source)
  • A few days ago, the SS Stuttgart made for port in Cape Town carrying over five hundred Jewish emigrants.†   (source)
  • Then, through a series of misadventures, the family had ended up in China, finally emigrating to Canada in the twentieth century.†   (source)
  • Just a guess, but Hampton struck him as a town that people were more likely to emigrate from, as opposed to immigrate to.†   (source)
  • In 1886 Japan had for the first time allowed its citizens to emigrate, and thousands from his district had already left the country in search of better opportunities.†   (source)
  • Especially considering how MDs often emigrate, why couldn't nonphysicians be trained to perform emergency C-sections?†   (source)
  • One who surrendered months after the Marines left later emigrated to Brazil, too shamed to live in Japan.†   (source)
  • Their parents, like mine, had lacked the courage to wind up their affairs and emigrate while there was still time.†   (source)
  • Very often, they also emigrate to Europe or America, amounting to a kind of foreign aid from Africa to the West and leaving women like Prudence without anyone to operate on them.†   (source)
  • We could accept far more than would emigrate voluntarily but if they used forced emigration and flooded us….†   (source)
  • But people we talked to rarely thought of emigrating themselves; they thought of forcing or persuading others to emigrate to relieve crowding—and to reduce their own taxes.†   (source)
  • That is why Tomas accepted Tereza's wish to emigrate as the culprit accepts his sentence, and one day he and Tereza and Karenin found themselves in the largest city in Switzerland.†   (source)
  • Madam, I would never venture to guess a lady's age but, if you will emigrate to Luna, you will keep your present youthful loveliness much longer and add at least twenty years to your life.†   (source)
  • No, they were probably bewildered by the sudden hatred, the lack of understanding they were all subjected to in emigration.†   (source)
  • We could accept far more than would emigrate voluntarily but if they used forced emigration and flooded us….†   (source)
  • I imagine a gloomy, shock-headed Beethoven, in person, conducting the local firemen's brass band in a farewell to emigration, anEs Muss Sein march.†   (source)
  • She could not take much with her when she emigrated, and taking this bulky, impractical thing meant givingup other, more practical ones.†   (source)
  • Whenever she told him about herself and her friends from home, Franz heard the words prison, persecution, enemy tanks, emigration, pamphlets, banned books, banned exhibitions, and he felt a curious mixture of envy and nostalgia.†   (source)
  • It was a program about the Czech emigration, a montage of private conversations recorded with the latest bugging devices by a Czech spy who had infiltrated the emigre community and then returned in great glory to Prague.†   (source)
  • He didn't care whether his fellow-countrymen were good kickers or painters (none of the Czechs at the emigre gathering ever showed any interest in what Sabina painted); he cared whether they had opposed Communism actively or just passively, really and truly or just for appearances' sake, from the very beginning or just since emigration.†   (source)
  • But his commuting route required him to change at Emigrants' Gap and he found himself unable to resist stopping to rubberneck.†   (source)
  • You'd think this was Emigrants' Gap.†   (source)
  • For a beautiful projection reel showing this planet send one pluton to 'Information, Box One, Emigrants' Gap, New Jersey County, Greater New York.'†   (source)
  • He looked back at the emigrant party.†   (source)
  • Her torch reached to the distant ceiling; on both her right and her left three great gates let emigrants into the outer worlds.†   (source)
  • In Emigrants' Gap the sturdy cross-country wagons were drawn up in echelon, as they had been so often before and would be so many times again.†   (source)
  • Even when she emigrated, my mother kept Brave Orchid, adding no American name nor holding one in reserve for American emergencies.†   (source)
  • He had long since sent for every free item and most of the non-free ones issued by the Commission for Emigration and Trade.†   (source)
  • I would show my mother and father and the nosey emigrant villagers that girls have no outward tendency.†   (source)
  • The Endless Road Matson chaperoned him through Emigrants' Gap, saved from possible injury a functionary who wanted to give Rod psychological tests, and saw to it that he signed no waivers.†   (source)
  • I live now where there are Chinese and Japanese, but no emigrants from my own village looking at me as if I had failed them.†   (source)
  • He picked his way through the crowd and entered the great hall— not Onto the emigration floor itself, but onto the spectator's balcony facing the gates.†   (source)
  • Most emigrants learn the barbarians' directness-how to gather themselves and stare rudely into talking faces as if trying to catch lies.†   (source)
  • The temporary gate you see erected below is hyperfolded to a point in central Australia in the Arunta Desert, where this emigration has been mounting in a great encampment for the past several weeks.†   (source)
  • The emigrants confused the gods by diverting their curses, misleading them with crooked streets and false names.†   (source)
  • When one of my parents or the emigrant villagers said, " 'Feeding girls is feeding cowbirds,' " I would thrash on the floor and scream so hard I couldn't talk.†   (source)
  • Something new was happening at gate four-Gate four had been occupied by a moving cargo belt when he had come in; now the belt had crawled away and lost itself in the bowels of the terminal and an emigration party was lining up to go through.†   (source)
  • They gave him a full-month party inviting all the emigrant villagers; they deliberately hadn't given the girls parties, so that no one would notice another girl.†   (source)
  • The target figure for this year for all planetary emigration gates taken together — Emigrants' Gap, Peter the Great, and Witwatersrand Gates — is only seventy million emigrants or an average of eight thousand per hour.†   (source)
  • During those same nine hours there have been one hundred seven births and eighty-two deaths among the emigrants, the high death rate, of course, being incident to the temporary hazards of the emigration.†   (source)
  • Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.†   (source)
  • This was the new gate househe was in, the one opened for traffic in '68; the original Emigrants' Gap, now used for Terran traffic and trade with Luna, stood on the Jersey Flats a few kilometers east alongside the pile that powered it.†   (source)
  • During those same nine hours there have been one hundred seven births and eighty-two deaths among the emigrants, the high death rate, of course, being incident to the temporary hazards of the emigration.†   (source)
  • The target figure for this year for all planetary emigration gates taken together — Emigrants' Gap, Peter the Great, and Witwatersrand Gates — is only seventy million emigrants or an average of eight thousand per hour.†   (source)
  • That the fishing season was bad; that the men were emigrating.†   (source)
  • She listened, as if she were an emigrant hearing her homeland's language for a brief while.†   (source)
  • They were predestined to emigrate to the tropics, to be miner and acetate silk spinners and steel workers.†   (source)
  • At the end of the plague, with its misery and privations, these men and women had come to wear the aspect of the part they had been playing for so long, the part of emigrants whose faces first, and now their clothes, told of long banishment from a distant homeland.†   (source)
  • Three weeks after he arrived he was married, to the daughter of a family of Huguenot stock which had emigrated from Carolina by way of Kentucky.†   (source)
  • When it comes to this, I shall prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty,—to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.†   (source)
  • Courage indeed was needed for this, because the avant-garde's emigration from bourgeois society to bohemia meant also an emigration from the markets of capitalism, upon which artists and writers had been thrown by the falling away of aristocratic patronage.†   (source)
  • Emigration was not to others the obvious remedy, the sublime conception.†   (source)
  • That Tartuffe has emigrated to England and opened a shop.†   (source)
  • Really, some one should arrange a proper scheme of assisted emigration.†   (source)
  • Horse and burro tracks struck south from Seaton's to the old California emigrant road.†   (source)
  • I know he wants to speak to you about your emigrating.†   (source)
  • Then I understood this was an emigrant ship bound for the American colonies.†   (source)
  • Emigration had become, in short, largely Lady Bruton.†   (source)
  • He would have been pronounced a preceptor in some good family, returned from the emigration.†   (source)
  • Micawber, I wonder you have never turned your thoughts to emigration.'†   (source)
  • Confiscation of the property of all emigrants and rebels.†   (source)
  • The emigration still continued, and wherever families could find means of departure, they fled.†   (source)
  • Truly, a decree for selling the property of emigrants.†   (source)
  • There seems to be a theory of emigration suggested there.†   (source)
  • The house inhabited by these emigrants has no internal partition or loft.†   (source)
  • 'They will emigrate together, aunt,' said I. 'Yes!' said Mr. Peggotty, with a hopeful smile.†   (source)
  • Not an emigrant, he hoped, within the sense and spirit of the law.†   (source)
  • Virginia received the first English colony; the emigrants took possession of it in 1607.†   (source)
  • He no longer thought of emigration, and thought more of Elizabeth.†   (source)
  • M. Charles Myriel emigrated to Italy at the very beginning of the Revolution.†   (source)
  • "I have heard that you think of emigrating, Mr. Henchard?" he said.†   (source)
  • The only response is, that I have acted for an emigrant, and where is that emigrant?†   (source)
  • 'Pray, have you thought about that emigration proposal of mine?'†   (source)
  • All the emigrants spoke the same tongue; they were all offsets from the same people.†   (source)
  • ] It is impossible to conceive the extent of the sufferings which attend these forced emigrations.†   (source)
  • "Emigrants have no rights, Evremonde," was the stolid reply.†   (source)
  • When this was done, my aunt and Agnes rose, and parted from the emigrants.†   (source)
  • ] This happened in 1620, and from that time forwards the emigration went on.†   (source)
  • Ah! most gracious Monsieur heretofore the Marquis, where is that emigrant?†   (source)
  • "Emigrant," said the functionary, "I am going to send you on to Paris, under an escort."†   (source)
  • ] The emigrants were about 150 in number, including the women and the children.†   (source)
  • "Come!" said the chief, at length taking up his keys, "come with me, emigrant."†   (source)
  • My uncle Elias emigrated to America when he was a young man and became a planter in Florida, where he was reported to have done very well.†   (source)
  • The new emigrants were still tasting it, lost in wonder, when suddenly the car came to a halt, and the door was flung open, and a voice shouted—"Stockyards!"†   (source)
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