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Example sentences for "land and"

  • My final and last care is for my fighting forces on land and sea.

  • Russia, beaten on land and sea, was by this time ready to give up the struggle, and readily accepted President Roosevelt's suggestion to hold a peace convention in the United States.

  • It forced you, reverend sirs, by land and water to go long journeys, and subjected you to alarm and danger, causing me many qualms of conscience.

  • Also Salvin in 'Land and Water' October 1869.

  • In point of geological fact, the story of the earth has been one prolonged series of changes in the level of land and water, and in their respective limits.

  • This meagre picture of the battle of land and sea, with interludes of great volcanic activity and even of an ice age, represents nearly all we know of the first half of the world's story from geology.

  • The foreign supplies sent to the Carlists had thus been cut off both by land and sea; but more active assistance seemed indispensable if Madrid was to be saved from falling into the enemy's hands.

  • From the time when Reschid, the Turkish commander, opened the second attack by land and sea in the spring of 1825, the garrison and the inhabitants met every movement of the enemy with the most obstinate resistance.

  • The Pasha was invited to assume the supreme command of the Ottoman forces by land and sea, and was promised the island of Crete in return for his co-operation against the Hellenic revolt.

  • A strong fleet was sent across the Ægæan, and adequate measures were taken to defend Samos both by land and sea.

  • And faithfulness is a great restraint, the strongest bond laid upon the self-will of men and ships on this globe of land and sea.

  • But no wind rules unchallenged his realm of land and water.

  • At Bristol he caused King Henry's letter to be publicly read, and each reading was accompanied by ample promises of land and recompense to those disposed to join in the expedition--but all in vain.

  • Among these populous tribes the invaders dealt some of their fiercest blows, both by land and sea, in the thirteenth century.

  • At last, having meditated what spot he should choose for the fight--for he said that he was unskilled in combat by land and in all warfare--he demanded it should be on the frozen sea.

  • Moreover, no man durst assume any sovereignty on the sea without his consent; for of old the state of the Danes had the joint lordship of land and sea.

  • His faithful wife follows him over land and sea, but is not able to save him.

  • As we intended to go back to San Francisco by land and afterward to travel a good deal, General Smith gave me the necessary authority to fit out the party.

  • Mr. Page was a very wealthy man, but his wealth consisted mostly of land and property in St. Louis.

  • It was soon determined that our company was to land and encamp on the hill at the block-house, and we were also to have possession of the warehouse, or custom-house, for storage.

  • The people crowned him with crowns of gold, and created him general, both at land and sea, with absolute power.

  • He saw the flapping crow, whose frequent note Voiced the monotony of land and sky, Mocking with graceless wing and rusty coat His priestly presence as he trotted by.

  • Be sure that the friar loyally Fulfilled his trust by land and sea, Till the spires of Leon silently Rose through the green of the Almandral, As if to beckon the seneschal To his kindred dust 'neath the choir wall.

  • No empire mankind had ever yet known rivaled in size the illimitable domains of Spain and Portugal in the New World; and none displayed such remarkable contrasts in land and people.

  • To maintain its vantage and to guard against reprisals, the victorious state had to keep in military readiness on land and sea.

  • He was to have supreme military command by land and sea.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absence from; explained that; first words; great woman; its very; land and; land animals; land from; land grant; land grants; land here; land laws; land office; land purchase; land under; land warfare; landed estates; landed proprietor; landing craft; landing party; landing place; landscape gardening; shall never; somebody else; spake against; wait until