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• The Governor had better know. (8)
• One was the Governor of the State. (1)
• Advancing to the Governor he saluted. (1)
• The Governor of New York interfered. (19)
• Among these was our friend the Governor. (1)
• The Governor of Louisburg was M. Duchambon. (19)
• The Governor went forward alone and on foot. (1)
• And the poor old Governor would feel it awfully. (8)
• Fourteen souls were aboard, including the Governor. (19)
• The Governor was ordered to surrender within two hours. (19)
• So reasoned Lawrence and Governor Shirley of Massachusetts. (19)
• Yet once again Governor Lawrence urged them to take the oath. (19)
• The Governor looked at him rather sharply, then a little coldly. (1)
• But here also the Governor was not the man for such an emergency. (19)
• Much to his sorrow and dismay, he found a new Governor installed. (19)
• Prince, the Governor of the Bank of England, and made his report. (18)
• With them came a new Governor for the colony, Robert Semple by name. (19)
• Left alone, the Governor remained for a time motionless, leaning against his desk. (1)
• Prince, the Governor of the Bank of England, who consented to influence the King. (18)
• Anxious indeed was the night passed in the fort by Governor Samuel Hearne and his men. (19)
• The Governor was absently tapping his desk with a pencil; he did not immediately reply. (1)
• When did ever a Boston governor climb to the top of Beacon hill in fulfillment of a vow? (9)
• The Dutch Governor of Albany took pity on the poor Jesuit priest and helped him to escape. (19)
• The Governor, De Vaudreuil, answered his warnings haughtily, for he was jealous of Montcalm. (19)
• The Iroquois, having the English Governor at their back, at first returned a defiant answer. (19)
• The Governor tossed the pencil into the desk, rose and walked two or three times across the room. (1)
• Governor Denonville, to whose policy the calamity was due, seems entirely to have lost his nerve. (19)
• Governor la Barre, as you have heard, was an altogether different sort of man from Count Frontenac. (19)
• All disembarked and were hospitably received by the Governor, the priests, the nuns, and the people. (19)
• To the post of Governor the Sieur de Courcelle was appointed, and Jean Baptiste Talon became Intendant. (19)
• On the fateful night a ball was given in the town, which the Governor, his officers, and soldiers attended. (19)
• In a last struggle for life and liberty the Governor attempted to rise, and looking back the captain saw him. (1)
• The Governor ordered forts to be built at Gaspereau and Beauséjour, and another {180} on the St. John River. (19)
• The governor, Scarpia, who captures him, loves Tosca also, and tortures him to make her yield to his desires. (3)
• To nip their schemes in the bud, against them marched the royal Governor, Sir Francis Head, with 500 militia. (19)
• Lewis Kirke was installed as English Governor, and treated all with kindness, giving them bounteous provisions. (19)
• Even the perdition of Dan Gregg then seems not the worst that could befall him; he might again have been governor. (9)
• Governor Shirley led the expedition against Niagara, and Colonel William Johnson was ordered to take Crown Point. (19)
• This book he guarded jealously, intending it for the eyes of the Governor, of King Louis, and the people of France. (19)
• The Governor called upon them to surrender and lay down their arms; they refused, and an exchange of fire took place. (19)
• It was a great loss to Canada, and fortunate was it that his successor was as brave and wise as Governor de Callières. (19)
• The Governor and his suite were provided with passage to Hays Island, where he afterwards made his escape to Port Nelson. (19)
• A new English Governor, Andros, was sent out to New York to foment the deadly feud between the Iroquois and the Canadians. (19)
• He thought the King ought to have appointed him Governor, instead of giving him the mere lordship over a limited territory. (19)
• In this he had the loyal support of the brave and wise man who also came out as the new Governor of Montreal, De Callières. (19)
• Much, then, as the Governor, De Lauzon, wanted peace, neither he nor his Indian allies knew how far they could trust the Iroquois. (19)
• In the meantime Lord Selkirk left the matter of retribution upon the murderers of Governor Semple to the law and returned to England. (19)
• Soon after lie arrived, Talon retired from his post of Intendant, fearing a conflict with the indomitable spirit of the new Governor. (19)
• This came to the notice of the Governor, who told them that Canada could not afford to have her young men unaccustomed to snow-shoes. (19)
• The despatch was addressed to the Archduke Albert, commander-in-chief of the Austrian army of the South, care of the governor of Mantua. (10)
• But the French Governor made it a condition of the treaty that the New Englanders should help Canada to exterminate the terrible Iroquois. (19)
• These three officials were the Governor, the Bishop, and the Intendant, the latter having charge of the commerce and finances of the colony. (19)
• Two Indians, however, brought Governor Sargeant tidings of the approach of the enemy, and his previous successes at Moose and Rupert rivers. (19)
• At {253} the spectacle of the French attacking force, the Governor of Prince of Wales Fort, Samuel Hearne, seems to have become panic-stricken. (19)
• The Governor permitted his advance and sent a factor to meet him and insist upon his eyes being bandaged before he would be permitted to enter. (19)
• Here they were joined by two Massachusetts regiments under the command of Samuel Vetch, a New Englander, who had been made Governor of Annapolis. (19)
• The miserable Governor was resolved to yield the place, and he carried out his intention, much to the astonishment and satisfaction of the French. (19)
• After a hot bombardment of three weeks, the English Governor was obliged to surrender and the French standard hoisted over the captured stronghold. (19)
• As they advanced, the latter party retreated, and a North-West hunter named Boucher rode up close to Governor Semple and asked what he wanted there? (19)
• He was but five and twenty years of age, and the good ship Canterbury brought him hither as secretary of the Proprietor and Governor of Pennsylvania. (18)
• This was told to Countess Branciani, and in the meantime she heard from the Austrian Governor that her husband had given in names of the conspirators. (10)
• The Governor was surprised at such extreme measures, for which he was totally unprepared, but was willing {121} to surrender upon terms of capitulation. (19)
• Yet these English prisoners thought they saw how Louisburg might be taken, and their hopes were eagerly seized upon and shared by the Governor of Massachusetts. (19)
• Governor de Calliéres hesitated to attack Albany until he could feel confident that the long-dreaded Iroquois Indians would not return to the old allies, the English. (19)
• The new Governor very quickly found that the English colonists were intriguing with the Iroquois, upholding and encouraging them in acts of hostility against the French. (19)
• Subsequently, when the attorney filed charges with the governor against the commission, one editor wrote an editorial stating the facts and criticising the commissioners. (16)
• Governor Shirley dinned constantly into their ears the value of settling an English population in Nova Scotia to counter-balance the French Acadians who were planted there. (19)

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