Belgic
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Origin of Belgic
Example Sentences
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She insisted that all natives, before getting a situation, should be baptized and have signed the Belgic Confession, and many who fulfilled these conditions remained as they had been before.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
The names of the individual Belgic chiefs are as Gallic as those of the towns and nations, e.g.,
From The Ethnology of the British Islands by Latham, R. G. (Robert Gordon)
Claudius marched with elephants clad in mail, and bearing turrets filled with slingers and bowmen, accompanied by Belgic pikemen and Batavians from the islands in the Rhine, A.D.
From Needlework As Art by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
He comes whom, nor the Belgic band, The bravest Nervii might withstand With pleasure-spurning souls Nor they might give his star eclipse, The sea-swept Celts with high-tower'd ships, Where westmost ocean rolls.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 by Various
“The hostile myriads were poured with resistless violence into the Belgic provinces.”
From A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse by Bliss, Sylvester
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