King Country

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the King Country an area in the centre of North Island, New Zealand: home of the King Movement, a nineteenth-century Māori separatist movement

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How to use King Country in a sentence

In that country at that moment, the Catholics have practically disappeared.
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It marked a groundbreaking moment in how the country viewed Jews, especially Jewish women.
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The country is well inhabited, for it contains fifty-one cities, near a hundred walled towns, and a great number of villages.
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In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.
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Nothing remarkable occurred in our march through this country.
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A fancy came into my head that I would entertain the king and queen with an English tune upon this instrument.
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