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He is said to be a Canadian too; and yet he served with our friends the Mohawks, who, as you know, are one of the six allied nations.

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 Meanings and Examples of ALLIED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
allied
 a.  related by common characteristics or ancestry
 a.  of or relating to or denoting the Allies in World War I
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  So then," he exclaimed, turning pale with anger, "seven conjoined and allied armies overthrew that man.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 11. The Corsican Ogre.
2  The aristocracy of the lance has allied itself with the nobility of the cannon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 51. Pyramus and Thisbe.
3  There was the same candour, the same vivacity, but it was allied to an expression more full of sensibility and intellect.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
4  Without my knowing why, these tears allied themselves with the quietly sad smile which was so fixed in my remembrance, and shook me more with hope than fear or sorrow.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 62. A LIGHT SHINES ON MY WAY
5  Here Juno in all her terror holds the Scaean gates at the entry, and, girt with steel, calls her allied army furiously from their ships.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SECOND
6  So speaks he, and with like words heartens Messapus and the allied captains to battle, and advances towards the enemy.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK ELEVENTH
7  But fortresses were of little value to her afterwards when Cesare Borgia attacked her, and when the people, her enemy, were allied with foreigners.
The Prince By Niccolo Machiavelli
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX — ARE FORTRESSES, AND MANY OTHER THINGS TO WHI...
8  Closely allied with this come the various forms of social contact in everyday life, in travel, in theatres, in house gatherings, in marrying and giving in marriage.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
9  He is said to be a Canadian too; and yet he served with our friends the Mohawks, who, as you know, are one of the six allied nations.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 2
10  My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BAND
11  They are peculiar to this part of the world, though allied to the ordinary gipsies all the world over.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  The two Emperors, the Russian with his heir the Tsarevich, and the Austrian with the Archduke, inspected the allied army of eighty thousand men.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII
13  "By the queen's almoner, to whom I am very intimately allied," said Aramis, coloring.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 42 THE ANJOU WINE
14  Thanks to the negro vote, the Republicans and their allies were firmly entrenched and they were riding rough-shod over the powerless but still protesting minority.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
15  Since the time of his disillusionment, Jurgis had sworn to trust no man, except in his own family; but here he discovered that he had brothers in affliction, and allies.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 8
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  The allies let loose an intensive artillery bombardment over the border.
17  North Korea is one of China's staunchest allies.
18  He's argued from the start that America and its allies are putting too much emphasis on the military option.
19  Washington would not take such a step without its allies' approval.
20  They therefore proved natural allies in her assault upon the seat of consensus in Whitehall.
21  This book therefore sets out to win over a much wider audience to the beauty and importance of ferns and their allies.
22  The demonstrators inspired thousands of allies to take to the streets to protest economic inequality and corporate greed.
23  The only possible source for replacement is nuclear, and your allies on the left will toss lawsuit after lawsuit to prevent that from happening.
24  He failed to get enough allies to block the reform.
25  In an age of smart missiles and precision-guided weaponry President Bush is going to have to rely upon good old-fashioned charm if he is to win over America's sceptical NATO allies.
26  Although enemy forces encompass us, we are cheerful for we are well stocked and can withstand a siege until our allies join us.
27  The allegiance of our allies is held by rather tenuous ties; we all should see it's in dangerous.
28  In this exigency, we must look for aid from our allies.
29  The US and its allies this week formally offered security guarantees to the north as the first step towards a settlement.
30  China has won, gaining the support of American allies not just in Asia but in Europe, and leaving America looking churlish and ineffectual.