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c1527 W. More Jrnl. (1914) 265 Item this wyck dan thomas Astley departed to Abburgeyny with a migracion.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1903) II. v. xxv It is said camillus movit þe Romanis fra migration to veos be mony ressonis.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. vi. 302 The first man ranged farre before the Flood, and laid his bones many miles from that place, where its presumed he received them: And this migration was the greater, if..he was cast out of the East-side of Paradise. View more context for this quotation

1720 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad V. xx. Observ. 1563 After the Ionic Migration, which happen'd about 140 Years after the taking of Troy, the Ionians of Asia assembled in the Fields of Priene.

1747 Pennsylvania Gaz. 9 July 2/2 Each particular History begins from the first Notice to be found of the People... All their Migrations and Conquests are related.

1766 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 17 The right of migration, or sending colonies to find out new habitations.

1848 C. H. Smith (title) The natural history of the human species, its typical forms, primaeval distribution, filiations and migrations.

1891 ‘S. C. Scrivener’ Our Fields & Cities 49 The poverty of the majority is the cause of the continual migration to London.

1904 H. James Golden Bowl II. iv. xxx. 104 The date of the migration to Fawns—that of the more or less simultaneous adjournment of the two houses—began to be discussed.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 58 An Anglo-Frisian (or Ingweonic) dialect area, which must have been fairly extensive before the migration to Britain.

1997 Church Times 27 June 2/1 ‘Aliyah’—the Hebrew word for the migration of Jews to Israel.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. i. 2 All our adventures were by the fireside, and all our migrations from the blue bed to the brown.

1792 R. Bage Man as he Is IV. cxiii. 205 Sir George had heard indeed, that Miss Colerain designed to pass the winter in Paris, and the summer in England... The spring was early and cold, and the usual season for migration of ladies at a distance.

1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 290 A favourite resting place of the Emperors in their annual migrations to Cashmire.

1841 Godey's Lady's Bk. Sept. 121 An excursion upon the banks of the Catawba... What is called the upper country is usually healthy during the whole year, and consequently the habits of migration common to less favoured regions are here unknown.

1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Amos Barton i, in Scenes Clerical Life I. 7 A slate appeared in front of the gallery, advertising..the psalm about to be sung... Then followed the migration of the clerk to the gallery, where..he formed the complement of a choir.

1894 Dict. National Biogr. XXXVII. 111/2 In 1730 and 1731 he was vice-chancellor of the university... Capricious migration from college to college was checked.

1952 E. Wilson Lilly's Story i, in Equations of Love 133 A trunk-room full of the trunks which accompany a large English family in migration.

1987 Christian Aid News Jan. 7 6/4 It's a world of huge migrations of homeless, workless, landless poor who are harried from pillar to post by the more privileged.

1838 H. H. Milman in E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. ix. 364 (note) The Sclavonians..in the north of Dacia. During the great migration, these races advanced into Germany as far as the Saal and the Elbe.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 10 In the ninth century, began the last great migration of the northern barbarians.

1874 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 3 290 The Meshkeriaks are now Turks... Their change of language took place, there can be little doubt, at the time of their great migration.

1898 Amer. Hist. Rev. 3 553 The latter work confines itself to the history of the Palatines (so-called) of the great migration..to England in the year 1709.

1904 E. Tregear Maori Race 560 It has proved (in my opinion) conclusively that the Maoris from whom the leading tribes claim descent, those ancestors said to have arrived in the Arawa, Tainui, Aotea, and other canoes of the Great Migration, were certainly not aborigines of New Zealand, even if there were other Maoris or other inhabitants resident on these islands.

1933 J. Juta Look out for Ostriches 97 Her Tribe..is said to be an offshoot of the great migration of the Bantu race.

1949 P. H. Buck Coming of Maori 36 The great migration (heke) from Hawaiki is the most famous event in Maori history, because all the tribes trace their aristocratic lineages back to the chiefs of the voyaging canoes.

1995 Sunday Star-Times (Auckland) 1 Oct. a7 Moriori of the area consider themselves distinct from Maori, though intermarriage has clouded the lines between them. ‘All of our ancestors have been on the land at least 700 years before the great migration came along’.

1998 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 16 July 56/3 He casts doubt on my account of one key episode of Serbian history, the so-called ‘Great Migration’ of the Serbs from Kosovo in 1690.

a1633 F. Godwin Man in Moone (1638) 112 My Birds began to droope, for want of their wonted migration.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iv. xiii. 223 By this way Aristotle through all his bookes of Animals, distinguisheth their times of generation, Latitancy, migration, sanity and venation. View more context for this quotation

1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 143 The migration of Birds..according to the Seasons.

1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 144 The migration of divers sorts of Fishes. As for example; The Salmon.

1771 G. White Let. 12 Feb. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 139 These vast migrations consist not only of hirundines but of bee-birds.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. i. 1/1 Why mention our disquisitions on the Social Contract, on the Standard of Taste, on the Migrations of the Herring?

1845 Godey's Lady's Bk. July 22 If an untimely frost occur, and the wind be keen and biting, you will observe flocks returning southward, not so large and orderly as when in the natural tide of migration, but straggling and slow, evidently feeling pinched and uncomfortable.

1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 648 Comparatively few are subject to periodical migrations to the sea, like Salmo.

1904 J. London Sea-wolf xvii. 155 We..picked up with the great seal herd... It was travelling north on its annual migration to the rookeries of Bering Sea.

1947 Commerc. Salmon-fisheries Brit. Columbia (Dept. Fisheries, Brit. Columbia) (rev. ed.) 12 Those familiar with the Pacific salmon have no difficulty in distinguishing the five species..in the lower reaches of the rivers, which they enter on their spawning migration.

1999 New Scientist 27 Mar. 50/2 The migration of Alaskan bar-tailed godwits..requires an astonishing flight of almost 7000 miles.

1828 W. Sotheby Italy & Other Poems 286 Where the vast migration heaves, Wing'd flights o'erhang their banquet, vast of size.

1972 G. M. Brown Greenvoe (1976) ii. 31 Their shining hooves beat over the Orkneys and on out into the North Sea. Sometimes it takes days for that migration to pass.

1984 T. Horton Bay Country (1987) 51 A handful of the bay's commercial watermen harvest the ocean-bound hordes of eel, chasing them down the bay until..the migration drops over the lip of the continental shelf.

1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. II. vi. 88 The migration of quadrupeds from one part of the globe to the other..is prevented by the uncongenial climates and the branches of the ocean which intersect continents.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. vii. 152 The great table-land presents an obstacle to the migration of species.

1876 A. Blytt Ess. on Immigration Norwegian Flora 29 If we attempt to explain these leaps, we come to the question of the migration of plants.

1927 Jrnl. Ecol. 15 303 A considerable amount of either migration or evolution will be necessary to produce any important or fundamental change in the vegetation.

1973 O. Polunin & B. E. Smythies Flowers of S.W. Europe ii. 86 The sierra..has acted as a refuge for a number of montane species, which had in all probability previously undergone migrations and recessions culminating in the last ice age.

1992 New Scientist 12 Sept. (Inside Sci. section) 2/1 Species migration occurs when a species shifts its range over many years, as the collared dove..did when it spread from Turkey to Britain between 1920 and 1952.

1902 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 237/2 The migration velocity of an ion with charge E and the frictional constant P should be represented by the formula [etc.].

1966 Population Index 32 83/2 Some characteristics of the megalopolitan development in Japan: migration velocity analysis.

1995 Jrnl. Ecol. 83 383/1 The migration velocity of individual dunes.

1878 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 7 130 The scene..was fully 600 miles distant at its nearest point from Mr. Markham's imaginary migration route.

1893 A. Newton et al. Dict. Birds: Pt. II 561 Every species on Migration goes its own way, and what is called a Migration-route is only the coincidence of the way taken by more or fewer of them.

1988 E. Wood et al. Sea Life Brit. & Ireland 29 A number of whales..have migration routes that pass to the west of Britain and Ireland.