London Company
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The merchant princes who founded enterprises such as the London Company in the 17th century wanted to build bustling empires across the seas.
From Economist • Apr. 27, 2016
The growth and development of the colony of Virginia into a great agricultural population occupied in the cultivation of tobacco was not at all what the London Company had in mind.
From Seaport in Virginia George Washington's Alexandria by Moore, Gay Montague
Land had been the only wages of the London Company and he was not in Virginia to stake his claims.
From The Pocahontas-John Smith Story by Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight
As she hoped, Sir Thomas Dale invited the Rolfes to come along on his trip, thinking they would make a fine advertisement for the London Company.
From The Pocahontas-John Smith Story by Edmunds, Pocahontas Wight
Thinking that the telegram which warranted my calling at this Cardiff office of the London Company would best explain my intrusion, I handed it over the fateful counter.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Blunden, Edmund
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