Defn: A temporary residence, as that of a traveler in a foreign land.
Tangier is a foreign land if ever there was one, and the true spirit of it can never be found in any book save The Arabian Nights.
Many a one on our decks knew then for the first time how tame a sight his country's flag is at home compared to what it is in a foreign land.
We never lie down to rest but we dream of it, whether we are in our own country or in a foreign land, as I am now.
How frightful to figure to one’s self an army of such beings in a foreign land, sent thither either to invade or defend; and yet Spain at the time I am writing this is looking forward to armed assistance from Portugal!
Early in the morning of the 19th, we took a large party of the midshipmen on shore to enjoy the young pleasure of walking on a foreign land.
Nobody that has always lived at home, can tell the value of a kindness like this in a foreign land.
Tis after all a sad thing to be alone and sick in a foreign land!
The thought of being solely in his power, in a foreign land, was terrifying to her, but it was not by terror alone that she was urged to an immediate marriage with Valancourt.
First of all thou dwellest in Greece instead of a foreign land, and thou learnest what justice is, and to enjoy laws, not to be directed by mere force.
Grief at the injury inflicted upon her husband and a feeling of friendlessness in a foreign land, had hastened her end.
From her I began to catch a glimpse of the nobler things of life, things that to me, being but poorly educated and in a foreign land, had been denied.
They were speaking English all about me, but I knew I was in a foreign land.
There is no foreign land; it is the traveller only that is foreign, and now and again, by a flash of recollection, lights up the contrasts of the earth.
No wonder that the Pacific coast is a foreign land to visitors from the Eastern States, for each race contributes something of its own.
It is an original trait in the ballad that the murderer, as is expressly said in many copies, is from a foreign land.
He had not been in a foreign land | A day but only three, | Till he was taken by a savage Moor, | And they used him most cruelly.
More important still is it that the hero of the English ballad goes home and forgets the woman he has left in a foreign land, instead of going away from home and forgetting the love he has left there.
You are going to a foreign land, the home of revolutionary teaching.
Everything; and as soon as he comes of age he will take my place in the family councils and you will be as one that has died in a foreign land.
There was no possibility of escape as long as he remained in a foreign land.
No harm will have been done by your having called yourself a Christian in a foreign land," continued Pantulu, resolutely looking away from his companion's face, that he might not be discouraged by what was so manifest there.
It had been better to die young in a foreign land, while all the stars of hope were beaming above me, than to protract a miserable, obscure life here, and see all the stars fade out one by one!
Count d'Artois, by advising him to leave France for some time, and to remain in a foreign land, until the times should be more quiet and peaceful.
Of temporal property she possessed very little: she was at a distance from her father's house: the widow and the fatherless were in a foreign land.
Through the management of Antonio, however, I procured one of the two chests, whilst the other was sent down to San Lucar, to be embarked for a foreign land as soon as I could make arrangements for that purpose.
Soon after this event, and in the same year, Alcibiades, who had been honored by both Athens and Sparta, and was now the dread of both, met his fate in a foreign land.
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