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  • The newspaper guy had migrated back to his spot in front of the drugstore, although he was packing his things.   (source)
    migrated = moved (from one place to another)
  • The migration paralleled the white flight from other old residential neighborhoods close to downtown Atlanta.   (source)
    migration = movement from one place to another
  • By this time the kisses had migrated from behind my ear to my neck.   (source)
    migrated = moved (from one place to another)
  • The Balti had originally migrated southwest from Tibet, via Ladakh, more than six hundred years ago, and their Buddhism had been scoured away as they traveled over the rocky passes and replaced by a religion more attuned to the severity of their new landscape—Shiite Islam.   (source)
    migrated = moved from one place to another
  • She thought she saw him ten minutes later, but it was only a migrating sparrow.   (source)
    migrating = moving from one place to another
  • He needs to be there by 7:30 for the return migration of the Bluebird.   (source)
    migration = movement from one place to another
  • I graduated from New Haven in 1915, just a quarter of a century after my father, and a little later I participated in that delayed Teutonic migration known as the Great War.   (source)
  • Perhaps it was only migrating, or had been chased out of its own region by some bird of prey.   (source)
    migrating = moving from one place to another
  • Wars, migrations, natural disasters—these were mere preludes to the Mormon story.†   (source)
  • Like a migrating tern who has flown ten thousand miles to her natal shore, her mind pounded with the longing and expectation of home; she barely heard Jodie's prattle.†   (source)
  • The only sign of war was a cloud of dust migrating from east to west.†   (source)
  • What is their sin, what have they done that they've had to migrate?†   (source)
  • It was quiet for a moment, and I wondered what I was supposed to say, but then one of them kicked another and they were off to the races again, falling all over each other in a scrum that migrated toward the kitchen.†   (source)
  • It was the largest involuntary migration in the United States up to that time.†   (source)
  • The annual migration.†   (source)
  • During the next four hours, Ye learned of the existence of Trisolaris, learned of the civilization that had been reborn again and again, and learned of their plan to migrate to the stars.†   (source)
  • It struck me how I thought of the people who'd migrated to our floor as "refugees."†   (source)
  • In addition to starvation in the countryside, the famine of '32 eventually led to a migration of peasants to the cities, which, in turn, contributed to overcrowded housing, shortages of essential goods, even hooliganism.†   (source)
  • His last correspondence from Vittoria had been in December—a postcard saying she was headed to the Java Sea to continue her research in entanglement physics… something about using satellites to track manta ray migrations.†   (source)
  • We'll take it away in some random direction and stick it on a migrating bird.†   (source)
  • In the 1940s, thousands of African Americans left the region as part of the Great Migration and headed mostly to the Midwest and West Coast for jobs.†   (source)
  • If I didn't feel like my heart had migrated to my throat, I would ask her what it signifies.†   (source)
  • There are places where the changing seasons are marked by migrating birds, or the ebb and flow of tides.†   (source)
  • Then she asked if I wanted to watch one of my Blue Planet videos, about life under the Arctic ice or the migration of humpback whales, but I didn't say anything because I knew I wasn't going to be able to do my maths A level and it was like pressing your thumbnail against a radiator when it's really hot and the pain starts and it makes you want to cry and the pain keeps hurting even when you take your thumb away from the radiator.†   (source)
  • Thousands are caught in the cold; they return south in a reverse migration.†   (source)
  • Back home, when I used to sit in my garden, I liked to observe birds, and not just the green-rumped parrots but also the migrating species.†   (source)
  • She spent her days developing her skill in the large waves and her nights around a campfire with many other surfing expatriates and hippie characters who had migrated to the shores of Kauai. ladybug and tunas get acquainted†   (source)
  • Stray migrating geese sometimes honored the little grassy shore.†   (source)
  • The next major storm would cause the Great Martian Potato Migration.†   (source)
  • For Ashima, migrating to the suburbs feels more drastic, more distressing than the move from Calcutta to Cambridge had been.†   (source)
  • In Albion's Seed, Fischer argues that there were four distinct British migrations to America in its first 150 years: first the Puritans, in the 1630s, who came from East Anglia to Massachusetts; then the Cavaliers and indentured in America rest of the country.†   (source)
  • He knew some things migrated but he wasn't sure which things or if even rabbits came out—maybe they stayed inside brushpiles or caves all winter and slept.†   (source)
  • Their migration to the rural areas of Earth, mostly to escape Levana's dictatorship, brought the disease into contact with humans for the first time.†   (source)
  • I know the swans from up north migrate to Lake Matamuskeet every winter, but I guess they came here this time.†   (source)
  • Within a few short Vog years every last Vogon had migrated to the Megabrantis cluster, the political hub of the Galaxy, and now formed the immensely powerful backbone of the Galactic Civil Service.†   (source)
  • During migration season, when we hunt fowl, we've developed a system of dividing the birds so we don't both target the same ones.†   (source)
  • Sherpas are a mountain people, devoutly Buddhist whose forebears migrated south from Tibet four or five centuries ago.†   (source)
  • Men, women, and children went into the streets and gazed up, speechless, at the vast migration of mechanical birds that filled the sky.†   (source)
  • Every nerve in my body migrates to where he touches.†   (source)
  • There had always been an American jetset, even before jets were invented, and it seemed to Jack that the Overlook should have been one of the bases they touched in their migrations.†   (source)
  • The brutes have been migrating southeast, toward the Hadarac Desert.†   (source)
  • Curtis and Minnie housed and fed whole families that had migrated north from High Point, but Dennis was too proud to look them up.†   (source)
  • Anything living that could abandon its home, some of our neighbors included, had migrated westward, in the direction from which we heard drums every night.†   (source)
  • Grandpa thought they were migrating, and this is the same time of year.†   (source)
  • The crowd begins migrating up Main Street, away from the circle.†   (source)
  • An Ouster migration cluster of at least four thousand… units… has been detected approaching the Hyperion system.†   (source)
  • Closer at hand, a gory killing in New York suggested he might have migrated to America.†   (source)
  • The truck was under five feet of water and had migrated half a block.†   (source)
  • Athena had been lecturing us for years about how Mount Olympus might migrate to Brazil someday, and we should all be prepared for the possibility.†   (source)
  • At this time, the Assyrian king Sargon II had recently conquered Samana-northern Israel-forcing a migration of Hebrews southward into Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • It was the first large-scale migration conducted mainly by car.†   (source)
  • His family were once-wealthy zamindars who had migrated to Calcutta from East Bengal after Partition.†   (source)
  • I roll in on fumes—a cliche I've never put to practice—park the car, and take in the view: a migration of the elderly, scuttling like broken insects on walkers and canes, jerking oxygen tanks toward the bright lights.†   (source)
  • BELA TEGEUSE: fifth planet of Kuentsing: third stopping place of the Zensunni (Fremen) forced migration.†   (source)
  • People from the rural South migrated toward what they considered lucrative factory jobs in the North.†   (source)
  • Gradually every item that was not bolted down migrated to higher ground safely above the sweep of his swinging mallet.†   (source)
  • When his father died he migrated back, bringing Etta with him.†   (source)
  • The Semites originated in the Arabian Peninsula, but they also migrated to different parts of the world.†   (source)
  • Tales were told at these places that people from all over now gathered to hear, for the tales of these natives felt appropriate to this time of migration, and gave listeners much-needed sustenance.†   (source)
  • Where the caribou and other migrating animals roamed, The People followed.†   (source)
  • According to tradition, the Thembu people lived in the foothills of the Drakensberg mountains and migrated toward the coast in the sixteenth century, where they were incorporated into the Xhosa nation.†   (source)
  • The bricks, or crystals, first appear near the center of the cell and then migrate toward the surface.†   (source)
  • One time I was lying stretched out on top of the rock, staring at the sky all pink and purple like the stretch taffy at carnivals, and I saw hundreds of geese migrating, a perfect V. A single feather floated down through the air and landed directly next to my hand.†   (source)
  • They could hear the rain coming down the road behind them like some phantom migration.†   (source)
  • How does a name migrate through the population, and why?†   (source)
  • " "I think he migrated to Seguin, or somewhere over in there," Augustus said.†   (source)
  • This is just a kid with a local yearning but he is part of an assembling crowd, anonymous thousands off the buses and trains, people in narrow columns tramping over the swing bridge above the river, and even if they are not a migration or a revolution, some vast shaking of the soul, they bring with them the body heat of a great city and their own small reveries and desperations, the unseen something that haunts the day—men in fedoras and sailors on shore leave, the stray tumble of…†   (source)
  • Goretti was wearing a brown knit shirt--some American had donated it to charity and it had migrated to central Africa--over a colorful yellow wraparound skirt.†   (source)
  • The crowd, which had been thinly dispersed around the track to see War Admiral's distance workouts, migrated up to the turn after Seabiscuit and stood in a thick mass by the rail.†   (source)
  • Whenever Sumner was over, everyone came out of their respective hiding places: my mother from the kitchen, my father from in front of the TV, all of us migrating towards his voice and laughter, or whatever it was that made everyone want to be around him.†   (source)
  • But in the sixties and seventies, as the factories expanded and pollution increased, the working-class whites in West Phoenix migrated out of the area.†   (source)
  • In return for the Pimas' generosity and even protection under attacks by Apaches, the migrating Easterners who settled in Arizona began to help themselves to the same water sources that sustained the peaceful culture.†   (source)
  • IF THINGS GO ON LIKE THIS When Misha was young his family went to their dacha every summer, and he and his father would take the nets down from the attic and try to catch the migrating butterflies that filled the air.†   (source)
  • Ellie and Arthur had married, and Mr. Pernick shyly confided, "I'm pleased to say I'm engaged, Miss Pritchard, to a charming woman who is particularly knowledgeable about the migrating habits of the Motacilla trochilus."†   (source)
  • You are one of hundreds who came as part of this annual migration that keeps hospitals like ours going.†   (source)
  • With time, though, they joined the great migration and headed north in search of jobs and a better life.†   (source)
  • The result was a mass migration northward across the Rio Grande.†   (source)
  • The migration already has started in Port-au-Prince.†   (source)
  • They were part of the great Puritan migration, Dissenters from the Church of England who, in the decade following the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630, crossed the North Atlantic intent on making a new City of God, some twenty thousand people, most of whom came as families.†   (source)
  • Lourdes bought the bakery five years ago from. a French-Austrian Jew who had migrated to Brooklyn after the war.†   (source)
  • Even now, in my constituency of Sedgefield, which at one time had 30 pits or more, all now gone, virtually every community remembers that its roots lie in Irish migration to the mines of Britain.†   (source)
  • Richard Fowler was faithful and meticulous with the ledgers of the church and BTEA, and even when the rest of the world started migrating to computers and accounting software methods in the 1980s, Uncle Dick continued to keep the books by hand—the long way—and my parents found it incredible that he never made a single mistake.†   (source)
  • Don't they always know which way to migrate and how to get back to their nest, even if they can't see it?†   (source)
  • In the 1720s, when they began migrating to America in large numbers, many landed in Philadelphia.†   (source)
  • He shifted the conversation to other topics, predominately the status of major cities and population migrations across the continent.†   (source)
  • I had seen it run along the shore of Sullivan's Island chasing migrating birds and suddenly released balloons.†   (source)
  • The small lake reflects the slow migration of pilgrim clouds.†   (source)
  • Forebears who migrated across the globe … across the seas.†   (source)
  • The fields were empty now because the cows had migrated to a higher altitude, where they nervously and continually rang their tin or copper bells.†   (source)
  • The grandchildren were migrating now from the backyard to the front, and Sammy even invaded the porch, climbing the steps to throw himself in his mother's lap and complain about his brothers.†   (source)
  • The reindeer had begun their autumn migration southwest to the sea, yet no human tracks followed the herd.†   (source)
  • We usually end up seeing a lot of American wigeon ducks; they nest in parts of Canada and are usually the first to migrate south for the winter.†   (source)
  • "It will begin there," he answered carefully, "but if the first phase is successful, it will necessarily migrate."†   (source)
  • The silica melted and the heavier elements migrated to the area of, relatively, higher acceleration, the outer layers.†   (source)
  • The annual spring caribou migration north from the forested areas of Manitoba toward the distant tundra plains near Dubawnt Lake was under way, and from my canoe I could see countless skeins of caribou crisscrossing the muskegs and the rolling hills in all directions.†   (source)
  • From up the path, a black coat migrated his way, like an answer slow in coming.†   (source)
  • Alvin saw the rest of the green threads, the few that remained from the massacre at Tippy-Canoe, migrate to the edge of the cloth and stop.†   (source)
  • Bulleting over my head while I lay flat on my back on the hard rock, flocks of falcons and migrating hawks, maybe in the thousands, passed by.†   (source)
  • But it was not a huge migration.†   (source)
  • The Riverside Inn catered to a vanishing race of hotel dwellers—widows, widowers, and elderly couples, supported by trusts, annuities, and dividends, spending their summers in New England or the Poconos, and each November migrating to Florida with the coots and mallards.†   (source)
  • In any case, sitting there that lunchtime at Sammy's I positively glowed in my new environment, as it dawned on me with no surprise at all that an unconscious urge to be among Jews was at least part of the reason for my migration to Brooklyn.†   (source)
  • From the moment I left Sag Harbor the guns were booming at the migrating ducks, and as I drove in Maine the rifle shots in the forests would have frightened off any number of redcoats so long as they didn't know what was happening.†   (source)
  • In a few months, it was predicted, its fires would desist A layer of soil would then be imported, spread, and migrating birds would be encouraged to stop and rest, maybe nest, and to use the place as a lavatory.†   (source)
  • I had two other distant relatives from Morrisonville who had migrated to Baltimore, and both of them were also working in cemeteries.†   (source)
  • You migrate from one condition to the other all night long in sort of a Brownian movement, never quite waking up and never really sound asleep.†   (source)
  • The boats with their light upturned bottoms in the yards meant in Yuriatin what the migration of storks or the first snow meant in other places.†   (source)
  • The embargo completely idled the shipbuilding industry, destroyed the shipping trade and tied up the fishing vessels; and stagnation, bankruptcy, distress, and migration from the territory became common.†   (source)
  • She and all the others in this town are the patients of the greatest experiment in migration and hypnosis you will ever lay eyes on in your life.†   (source)
  • These had been recruited by what is the South African equivalent of the old press gang: white men who lie in wait for the migrating bands of natives on their way along the roads to look for work; gather them into large lorries, often against their will (sometimes chasing them through the bush for miles if they try to escape), lure them by fine promises of good employment and finally sell them to the white farmers at five pounds or more per head for a year's contract.†   (source)
  • For more months I wandered in regions where the Ouster Swarms regularly migrated.†   (source)
  • Great flocks of them have been migrating through here since I've arrived, and the pickings are easy.†   (source)
  • The same will happen to us, mark my words, and we will have no shelter, no place to migrate to.†   (source)
  • He didn't notice when his coworkers migrated to the large meeting room where a TV had been set up.†   (source)
  • Slowly the eyes of the other initiates, including Christina, migrate from him to me.†   (source)
  • It is an unquestioned ritual, a yearly migration to the town where Gerald's parents live year-round.†   (source)
  • Then it ties into the American road system, which serves as the headwaters of the migration.†   (source)
  • HARMONTHEP: Ingsley gives this as the planet name for the sixth stop in the Zensunni migration.†   (source)
  • I had thought the migrating islands were memorable in their colorful display.†   (source)
  • The migration of Western civilization goes both ways, you know.†   (source)
  • He'd tell us whether they migrated and where they nested, and the sound of their calls.†   (source)
  • Of the rest, the majority were men and women-families oftentimes-who were migrating to safer parts.†   (source)
  • Maybe it migrated from the nearest bank vault.†   (source)
  • This reverse migration began in the 1970s but accelerated in the next two decades.†   (source)
  • They believed the DREAM Act would provide amnesty and encourage migration from Mexico.†   (source)
  • The migration was too sweeping and magnetic for Stephen to ignore, so along he came.†   (source)
  • "I think migration scrambles the appetite," Pilar says, helping herself to a candied yam.†   (source)
  • The boys waited while Lucky and Cesar went over the paperwork with the Ofiaal de Migration.†   (source)
  • After the war, the books returned to Italy like a migration of birds.†   (source)
  • I head a V-flying flock of migrating geese honking overhead.†   (source)
  • They looked like a school of migrating porpoises.†   (source)
  • Tanner had migrated with the team when the Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles.†   (source)
  • Three days later the migration of animals started.†   (source)
  • Rod showed them the stobor traps and described the annual berserk migration.†   (source)
  • He had sold a florist shop in Boston, six years before, to migrate to Florida and operate a nursery.†   (source)
  • Having cast my lot with Beaufort, I migrated to college seventy miles up the road.†   (source)
  • The Turk's rotund body was now resting at the bottom of the Sea of Marmara, feeding the blue manna crabs that migrated in through the Bosporus Strait.†   (source)
  • You'd think that over the thousands, perhaps millions, of years they have been migrating they would have worked it out to arrive in the north country at the right time, but they always come early, while there is still snow and no real food for them.†   (source)
  • Instead, they have a bundle of energy, and that bundle of energy is transitory, migrating from one body to another, reincarnating endlessly until it eventually reaches enlightenment.†   (source)
  • I feel my heartbeat in my face, like my heart has detached from its moorings in my chest and begun to migrate to my brain.†   (source)
  • That's where the Urgal column that was chasing Eragon and Saphira was supposed to go, and I'm sure it's where the Urgals have been migrating all year.†   (source)
  • Thousands of migrant workers, mostly from Mexico and Central America, migrate into South Florida each growing season to pick the peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, and celery that supply much of the East Coast's winter vegetable needs.†   (source)
  • …at that time no thoughts of leaving Saeed, but it was also a difficult one because in making it she felt she was abandoning the old man, and even if he did have his siblings and his cousins, and might now go live with them or have them come live with him, they could not protect him as Saeed and Nadia could, and so by making the promise he demanded she make she was in a tense killing him, but that is the way of things, for when we migrate, we murder from our lives those we leave behind.†   (source)
  • Are they on some kind of migration?†   (source)
  • William H. Frey, a former professor of demography at the University of Michigan, has called this migration "the new white flight?'†   (source)
  • Nearly always I learn they've made a circular migration in their lifetimes, first having fled their home villages for the city, bluntly facing starvation there, and now returning to this small, remote outpost, where they have some hope of feeding themselves.†   (source)
  • The latrines on the fifth floor were beyond disgusting, and people had migrated from bathroom to bathroom in each abandoned apartment, floor by floor, looking for anything clean.†   (source)
  • Those who remained continued to work the land, but the out-migration of African Americans combined with other factors to make traditional agriculture less sustainable as the economic base of the region.†   (source)
  • It sounds so second era that Earthens take their immunities for granted now, but with the migration of the Lunars, well ….†   (source)
  • He closed his eyes and dozed for a few minutes but a new sound, high and almost cackling, cut into his doze and he opened his eyes to see a flock of geese high above heading south, migrating.†   (source)
  • In both Carvahall and Teirm, you heard that Urgals were leaving the area and migrating southeast, as if to brave the Hadarac Desert.†   (source)
  • My father says, "If I had known this would happen, I would have looked back for a last time just as the Prophet, PBUH, did when he left Mecca to migrate to Medina.†   (source)
  • Stripped down to a few major ships, a little more maneuverable, the Enterprise then will swing across the South Pacific, heading for Indonesia, where it will turn north again and start the next cycle of migration.†   (source)
  • …and sold stocks, and every year someone was moving out and someone was moving in, and now all these doors from who knows where were opening, and all sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it.†   (source)
  • HARJ: desert journey, migration.†   (source)
  • …yet it was not quite true to say there were almost no natives, nativeness being a relative matter, and many others considered themselves native to this country, by which they meant that they or their parents or their grandparents or the grandparents of their grandparents had been born on the strip of land that stretched from the mid-northern-Pacific to the mid-northernAtlantic, that their existence here did not owe anything to a physical migration that had occurred in their lifetimes.†   (source)
  • Or it could be the first of the isles, driven by instinct and the spring northerlies to migrate back to the great band of the equa torial shallows whence they came.†   (source)
  • …and sold stocks, and every year someone was moving out and someone was moving in, and now all these doors from who knows where were opening, and all sorts of strange people were around, people who looked more at home than she was, even the homeless ones who spoke no English, more at home maybe because they were younger, and when she went out it seemed to her that she too had migrated, that everyone migrates, even if we stay in the same houses our whole lives, because we can't help it.†   (source)
  • They tried to migrate in the end, but the North Reaches were far too dry and when I visited the region decades later, when Garden entered the Web, the desiccated remains of the centaurs still littered some of the distant Reaches like the husks of exotic plants from some more colorful era.†   (source)
  • During the "Bad Times," we vacationed at Uncle Kowa's place out beyond the moon, on a terra-formed asteroid brought there before the Ouster migration.†   (source)
  • I pull up a tendril of the thickly woven willowgrass, chew on the sweet stem, and watch the horizon for the first sign of the migrating islands.†   (source)
  • An Ouster migration cluster might consist of ships ranging in size from single-person ramscouts to can cities and comet forts holding tens of thousands of the interstellar barbarians.†   (source)
  • I will not try to describe the beauty of life in a Swarm-their zero-gravity globe cities and comet farms and thrust clusters, their micro-orbital forests and migrating rivers and the ten thousand colors and textures of life at Rendezvous Week.†   (source)
  • The Ouster Hawking wake had been noticed by Hegemony monitoring stations but was misinterpreted as merely another swarm migration which would pass no closer than half a light-year to the Bressian system.†   (source)
  • We do know, however, that Remus met an Etruscan witch and the two lived the rest of their lives together, eventually migrating north to Gaul and Germania.†   (source)
  • After washing the dishes, his father would migrate to the living room and peruse farm reports, while Paul immersed himself in books.†   (source)
  • All of the young people instinctively migrated to the kitchen, Jared's friends flirting with Lynn's, asking what the girls were going to do later and hinting that they might be interested in coming along.†   (source)
  • Eragon saw how the dwarves were once nomads on a seemingly endless plain, until the land grew so hot and desolate they were forced to migrate south to the Beor Mountains.†   (source)
  • I've seen it floating on the pond even when the temperature plunged in the winter and the other swans had long migrated farther south.†   (source)
  • We suspect that ultimately it will migrate back out of the atmosphere, since there's too much oxygen down here.†   (source)
  • Instead, a curious migration began—a surge of spectators who abruptly abandoned the lower rows of seats and crowded into the aisles of the upper tiers.†   (source)
  • Alvin saw how she passed her hand over a whole bunch of threads that seemed to climb out of their proper warp and migrate across the cloth to gather up near the edge.†   (source)
  • As I'm driving back to Lindsay's, I think about something I learned years ago in science class, that even when birds have been separated from their flock they will still migrate instinctively.†   (source)
  • And yet, the nomadic tribes who summered there with the reindeer had not journeyed with the herd's migration southwest along the coast to the more hospitable sea on the south side of the peninsula.†   (source)
  • Instead of describing the attempt on Eragon's life, and thus explaining why he had terminated the previous clanmeet prematurely, Orik commenced by recounting how, at the dawn of history, the race of dwarves had migrated from the once-verdant fields of the Hadarac Desert to the Beor Mountains, where they had excavated their uncounted miles of tunnels, built their magnificent cities both above and below the ground, and waged lusty war between their various factions, as well as with the…†   (source)
  • "The silica is denser than the impurities, so they're slowly' migrating to the outside since it has very little spin.†   (source)
  • Coincidentally, the drastically depleted caribou herds of Keewatin * chose that year to alter their age-old migration habits, and most of them bypassed southern central Keewatin entirely.†   (source)
  • But nobody wanted to sit facing away from the street, and so gradually the chairs had migrated to either side of the settee and people once again sat in a straight line gazing outward, not at each other, like passengers on a steamship deck.†   (source)
  • As they packed to travel, the migrating bands in these times preserved hot coals in hardened mooseskin sacks or birchbark containers filled with ash in which the embers pulsated, ready to spark the next campfire.†   (source)
  • Frank didn't understand how he could have evolved from a line like that, or how his family had migrated from Greece through the Roman Empire all the way to China, but some unsettling ideas were starting to form.†   (source)
  • As the war in Europe was thundering to an end, correspondents had migrated from that theater to the Pacific to record the growing conflict.†   (source)
  • And he knew better than to ask to see his own thread, even though he imagined his thread would be easy to find--the one thread born in the White man's section of the cloth, but migrating over and becoming green.†   (source)
  • The only' one nodding was the head of SpaceCom, which was slowly migrating to being a member of the JCS.†   (source)
  • The people who settled on the northern side, in Indiana, migrated down the Ohio--the biggest eastern tributary of the Mississippi.†   (source)
  • Toward the end of June, the last of the migrating caribou herds had passed Wolf House Bay heading for the high Barrens some two or three hundred miles to the north, where they would spend the summer.†   (source)
  • By the early twentieth century, frustrated blacks began migrating north to what they called "the Promised Land."†   (source)
  • But with modern bridges and roads the two sounds have migrated back and forth across the river, in what linguists call a bleedover effect, and the two dialects merge a little.†   (source)
  • When linguists tried systematically to match English dialect forms with patterns of colonial migration and slaveholding, the Anglicist theory fell apart.†   (source)
  • People are misled into thinking that Spanish is becoming dominant because, unlike immigration by other groups, which came in waves that began and ended, the Hispanic migration is a continuous flow.†   (source)
  • That movement began a cultural and linguistic migration that continues to this day, as we shall see, gathering power and belated prestige in both North and South.†   (source)
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