Do we say overseas or oversees

overseas 132 occurrences

COLONIES RALLY TO BRITAIN At the prospect of war with Germany the dominions of the British Empire overseas eagerly offered their aid.

" KING GEORGE PRAISES COLONIES On September 9 a message from King George to the British colonies, thanking them for their aid in Britain's emergency, was published as follows: "During the last few weeks the peoples of my whole empire at home and overseas have moved with one mind and purpose to confront and overthrow an unparalleled assault upon the continuity of civilization and the peace of mankind.

He was not going to be desperate; he was not going overseas to "wed some savage woman, who should rear his dusky race"; but he was going to eventually have Miss Grampus, or know the reason why.

As many as 1,197 vessels entered or left home waters in overseas trade exclusive of the Mediterranean trade.

A recent tour of the greater part of the British Empire has shown me that the importance of sea power is very fully realized by the great majority of our kith and kin overseas, and that there is a strong desire on their part to co-operate in what is, after all, the concern of the whole Empire.

I do not think that we in this country can claim to have taken into sufficient account the very natural views and the very natural ambitions which animate the peoples overseas.

" Thereafter the Little Red Doctor exhibited, but read to us only in small parts, quite bulky communications from overseas.

What if the boy who had shared that crazy adventure with her, himself an officer bound overseas, had fallen in with Rush, made friends with him, told him the story!

" "Overseas?"

That boy in New York, whom she had found in a panic of lonely terror lest he should prove a coward in the great ordeal he was facing overseas had been for a few hours in love with her.

And so the discussion of the future of the overseas "empires" brings us again to the same realisation to which the discussion of nearly every great issue arising out of this war has pointed, the realisation of the imperative necessity of some great council or conference, some permanent overriding body, call it what you will, that will deal with things more broadly than any "nationalism" or "patriotic imperialism" can possibly do.

The port was the scene of several great expeditions overseas before it gave its quota to that greatest of all crusades in 1914.

The seven Scotch, English, and Belgian mourners stared cheerlessly at one another and then with growing curiosity at the young man from overseas who had underbid the lowest of them by six thousand pounds sterling, less than one per cent.

Lying in the offing were great ships from overseas that had come to this land of the starving colonists for grain.

For a little while, the stillness of the forest was once more broken, startling the timid woodland folk; and then these strangers from overseas were gone.

She was one of Colonel Byrd's freighting ships just in from overseas.

France overseas through the old regime.

The youngest WAC overseas.

WELLER, GEORGE. Bases overseas: an American trusteeship in power.

George Weller (A); 26Nov71; R517335. Overseas bases.

France overseas.

Handbook of health for overseas service.

The youngest Wac overseas.

Overseas Information Service of the United States Government.

And the monk fled from the doomed city, like a true prophet, and went overseas.

oversees 3 occurrences

All ceremony toward them gives place to a fearful familiarity, as of one who not only sees through and through them, but oversees.

In addition to this, blood issuing from a bake-shop flowed to another temple of Fortune, whose statue on account of the fact that the goddess necessarily oversees and can fathom everything that is before us as well as behind and does not forget from what beginnings any great man came they had set up and named in a way not easy for Greeks to describe.

It's not our habit!'); up among the mountains where the officers of the law track and carefully bring into justice the astounded malefactor; and behind the orderly prairies to the barren grounds, as far as a single white man can walk, the relentless spirit of the breed follows up, and oversees, and controls.

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