What is "repeople"

Usage examples of "repeople".

The provinces that still adhered to the empire were repeopled and enriched by the misfortunes of those which were irrecoverably lost.

Father Charlevoix, the tribes of Canada and the valley of the Mississippi relate in their rude legends that all mankind was destroyed by a flood, and that the Good Spirit, to repeople the earth, had changed animals into men.

She dropped into the rocking-chair and looked about the room, trying to repeople it with those fair, young, friendly faces.

When Deucalion and Pyrrha went forth to repeople the world after a flood, they were told by the oracle to cast over their shoulders the bones of their mother.

It was actually proposed to destroy the whole male population, to deport the women and children, and to repeople La Vendee from other parts of France, from which immigrants would be attracted by offers of free land and houses.

Next they marched to another town called Toguaro, six leagues from Huancara, killing the Sinchi, named Alca-parihuana, and all the people, not sparing any but the children, that they might grow and repeople that land.

He knew that the kingdoms of East Anglia and Northumberland were totally desolated by the frequent inroads of the Danes, and he now proposed to repeople them, by settling there Guthrum and his followers.

From this class of his pictures alone one can repeople Holland with the spirits of the seventeenth century.

Along with this exodus to Europe, Canada will endeavor to repeople her land.

Without her there would be no point in their depopulating Earth of our race and our generation, for without her they could never repeople it again with theirs.

There is no plausible correspondence between these cases and the sending out from the ark of the patriarchal family to repeople the world.

Szeu-kha killed the eagle, restored its victims to life, and repeopled the earth with them, as Deucalion repeopled the earth with the stones.

From the confession of his enemies, I am informed of the restoration of an ancient aqueduct, of the redemption of two thousand five hundred captives, of the uncommon plenty of the times, and of the new colonies with which he repeopled Constantinople and the Thracian cities.

Gallipoli, the key of the Hellespont, was rebuilt and repeopled by the policy of Soliman.

As soon as he had disappeared in the interior of the palace, the window of the court was repeopled, and an animated whispering betrayed the emotion of the two girls.