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Definition of Allspices
1. allspice [n] - See also: allspice
Lexicographical Neighbors of Allspices
Literary usage of Allspices
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1881)
"... allspices is assuming a somewhat European appearance, very little has been
done in the way of public works. I certainly heard that a canal was being cut ..."
2. Review of Reviews by Albert Shaw (1897)
"Two Pacific cables, one under American and the other under British allspices,
are planned for construction this year. Meanwhile the Japanese, with the ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1879)
"... Meteorology : a Series of Lectures delivered under allspices of the Meteorological
Society in 1878. London, 9. port of the Meteorological Council to the ..."
4. Italy and Her Invaders by Thomas Hodgkin (1880)
"The M«jo- The high estimate usually formed by historians !.t-*the '. of the
character of Majorian, and of what, under -»ia by happier allspices, ..."
5. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1878)
"... one which had been presented to the king by Yoshitoshi, on the occasion of
his recent embassy , Japan entered on the waf under far different allspices. ..."
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