His commandery is a pleasant one, and well situated on the slopes of the hills; and the fresh air will, doubtless, speedily set you up.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes] Reference

A fourth commandery at Xuantu (Hyndo) was established.    From Wordnik.com.  [6. Korea, to 540 C.E] Reference

In 618, the frontier commandery of Nanning was established.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

No presence was so welcome and inspiring at the camp-fire or commandery as his.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.] Reference

Page view page image: transferred to be administrator of Changguang commandery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

He is also a Mason, being a member of the lodge chapter, commandery and the shrine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information] Reference

This is the so-called frontier commandery system (bianjun zhidu) of the Han Dynasty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Madame Adelaide in the Gothic style, on the site of an old commandery of the Knight Templars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

The provincial magistrate presented gifts, and the commandery administrator attended in person.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Nuns] Reference

Page view page image: in 257 and subsequently became Wei commandery administrators and marquises. 34.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empresses and Consorts] Reference

Tao-i was married to a certain Hsieh Chih of the same commandery, who died when he was the administrator of Hsün-yang Commandery108.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Nuns] Reference

Shortly after the withdrawal of the Mongols and Kory's support of the Ming, the latter moved to establish a commandery on Kory soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [1388] Reference

First of all, although central officials were assigned to these posts, they sometimes did not enter the designated commandery or county.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

With the decline of the Qin, the governor of one commandery in 208 B.C.E. conquered Au Lac and renamed the new entity under him Nam Viêt.    From Wordnik.com.  [7. Vietnam] Reference

A commandery was founded here in the lath laloe, fit. in bar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Topographia hibernica : or The topography ofIreland, antient and modern. Giving a complete view of the civil and ecclesiastical state of that kingdom; with its antiquities, natural curiosities, trade, manufactures, extent and population] Reference

France with her parents, exiles and refugees at an old commandery of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6] Reference

No presence was so welcome and inspiring at the camp fire or commandery as his.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 9, part 1: Benjamin Harrison] Reference

Order than if passing their lives in the quiet duties of a provincial commandery.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes] Reference

"I would rather go and bury myself for life in the smallest commandery in England.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes] Reference

Ch'ang-shan commandery; the territory of Ch'ang-shan was evidently later curtailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference

Bantam is a commandery from which the Company draw the greateft quantity of pepper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World] Reference

Leighlin Bridge, about a mile from this town, was a commandery of the Knights Templars.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History of Ireland, in Its Antient and Modern State] Reference

Teutonic Knights had a flourishing commandery in Ellingen which was secularized in 1802.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

The commandery will therefore be administered by the senior of the knights attached to it.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes] Reference

Harcourt, who, after five years longer service at Rhodes, received a commandery in England.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes] Reference

He was then enlarged, and appointed to the commandery of Kilseran, near Castlebellingham, in Louth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1] Reference

This place is called "The temple of the false gods," and used to be, it is thought, a commandery of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Over Strand and Field] Reference

There was no commandery by this name; here and later (1A: 29a) it is used as a common noun, not a proper name.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference

Ying-ch'uan was the name of a commandery in Ch'in and Han times (cf. glossary), in which the city of Ying-yang was located.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of the Former Han Dynasty] Reference

Old and worn he retired to Majorca, living off the products of the estates belonging to his commandery situated in Catalonia.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference

The money voted you by Florence will be useful to you now, and there is still a sum sent by your commandery owing to you by the treasury.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Knight of the White Cross : a tale of the siege of Rhodes] Reference