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    settlement


    1. In time for Duskmeal they reached a little settlement along an intermittent water course


    2. doostEr was relaxed by this time, they had passed the densest Brazilian settlement during Noonsleep and had heard and seen nothing out of place


    3. "This area is the center of Brazilian settlement," Tahlmute said, pointing at the saddle over the door


    4. A week later they were well out from settlement


    5. Herndon was one of the leaders of the Brazilian settlement down in the Gengee


    6. They would carry on here, they were actually doing well, though he had to admit, they were less and less Brazilian and more Gengee with every passing decade, especially at his end of the settlement


    7. it be a cosmopolitan settlement; not just all Americans, The key then, for the individual, is to know when to Russians, or Chinese


    8. There had been quite a bit of settlement on the north shore of Upper Shempala Lake at one time


    9. There are traces of a Minoan settlement and public baths here which are signs the Dorini area has been chosen for settlement since the very early days of colonisation


    10. He thought about saying that this war may provoke settlement of this region, but decided he didn't want to argue with her, worked on his gin and tonic instead

    11. In fact, the archaeologist said that considering there is so much evidence to show Dorini was an established Minoan settlement, it's surprising there has never been an official dig


    12. Until the settlement was worked out, he was sleeping in here and using the back door, so he had not seen her since she complained about his lawyer


    13. The Shark-IV had no user panel for setting what kind of settlement you wanted, all it did was go after the most it could get under the law


    14. He would have had to pay more for a lawyer with that option so he could request a smaller settlement


    15. The settlement was very small, they were immediately at the center of it


    16. On the central plaza of the settlement she had to be careful of the animal dung


    17. The indian settlement they had stumbled upon seemed like years ago


    18. I mean, if there’s a settlement here, it


    19. After his wanderings around the settlement, it was easy enough to


    20. you would never know that this settlement was here

    21. They couldn’t detect the settlement


    22. There also just so happens to be a Human settlement nearby, which they call “Trouble Valley”


    23. The settlement of Trouble Valley is, unknown to its inhabitants, located on the Event Horizon of an Information Singularity


    24. Even though there was too much vegetation to see the inhabitants, he could tell this was a settlement, and much larger than any he had come across so far


    25. It’s the largest settlement I’ve ever seen


    26. I passed a settlement on the way down here with about six houses and a couple big guys with black beards sitting on a porch drinking


    27. “Can you observe this settlement some more without arousing suspicion?” Elmore asked


    28. Come to think of it, this could be the first settlement he’d ever seen that had a commercial cook in it at all


    29. Its rapid accumulation in so profitable an employment enables the planter to increase the number of his hands faster than he can find them in a new settlement


    30. settlement, or even in being allowed to exercise his industry in any parish but that to which he

    31. should gain any person a settlement in any parish; but that within that time it should be lawful


    32. themselves concealed for forty days, to gain a settlement there, to the discharge of that to


    33. settlement in the old way, by forty days inhabitancy


    34. in another, it appointed four other ways by which a settlement might be gained without any


    35. Nobody can gain a settlement by


    36. No married man can well gain any settlement in either of the two last ways


    37. their servants a settlement by hiring them in this manner ; and servants are not always willing


    38. thereby lose their original settlement in the places of their nativity, the habitation of their


    39. settlement, either by apprenticeship or by service


    40. freehold estate of less than thirty pounds value, shall not gain any person a settlement, as not

    41. should gain no settlement there by any means whatever, except either by renting a tenement of


    42. neither the servants nor apprentices of such certificated man should gain any settlement in the


    43. continue at that place where he has had the misfortune to acquire what is called a settlement,


    44. I believe, in all other countries where there is no difficulty of settlement


    45. This, too, used to happen almost constantly in Hispaniola, while it was infested by the buccaneers, and before the settlement, improvement, and populousness of the French plantations ( which now extend round the coast of almost the whole western half of the island) had given some value to the cattle of the Spaniards, who still continue to possess, not only the eastern part of the coast, but the whole inland mountainous part of the country


    46. A fishing settlement brings many snakes


    47. But Father thought there was a small settlement to the east


    48. After leading her mare into the tiny settlement, she spotted the fluttering colors of the Legion, a pair of banners hanging in front of one of the buildings


    49. small settlement at the southern end of Ithaca called Alalcomenae


    50. For some time after the discovery of America, the first inquiry of the Spaniards, when they arrived upon any unknown coast, used to be, if there was any gold or silver to be found in the neighbourhood? By the information which they received, they judged whether it was worth while to make a settlement there, or if the country was worth the conquering














































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    Synonyms for "settlement"

    liquidation settlement colonisation colonization closure resolution small town village colony community encampment establishment plantation camp foundation conclusion decision confirmation arrangement contract covenant payment recompense release clearance quittance remuneration

    "settlement" definitions

    a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government


    a community of people smaller than a town


    a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it


    the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies


    something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making


    an area where a group of families live together


    termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities