Van Diemen's Land
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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When Jane Skinner went into labour at Richmond gaol in Van Diemen’s Land, Mary Ann Watson was released from solitary confinement to act as her finger-smith.
From The Guardian • Aug. 19, 2019
We are in 19th century Tasmania, then known as Van Diemen’s Land, in the early days of a conflict that wiped out most of the island’s indigenous population.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2019
Under the chapter heading “Island of the Damned,” Egan notes that Meagher had a house and a garden, a horse and a dog, went sailing and fishing, and got married in Van Diemen’s Land.
From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2016
When the state was still a colony called Van Diemen's Land, its fourth lieutenant-governor, Sir John Franklin, passed a law banning small pot stills in 1838.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2016
Ordering post-horses for Ems would be like calling for 'fresh cards'; and you would as soon confess to having passed a few years in Van Diemen's Land as acknowledge a summer on the Rhine.
From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James
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