Mother City
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How to use Mother City in a sentence
The furthest and the chiefest of my few jaunts abroad was to the mother-city of the mother-state—Sydney.
Thirty Years in Australia | Ada CambridgeHowever, he felt himself drawn to Wittenberg, the mother-city of the Reformation.
The Life of Philip Melanchthon | Karl Friedrich LedderhoseThe word seems to be used to denote a mother-city or district capital, on which other places were depending.
The Expositor's Bible: The Second Book of Samuel | W. G. BlaikieBetween this harbour and the Mother City a third town sprang up, and was called Cæsarea.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series | John Addington SymondsLoad me down, Now that you know me man, and not the thrall Of vilest fear that buys suspected breath With a mother-city's doom.
The Mortal Gods and Other Plays | Olive Tilford Dargan
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