America has always been a land of opportunity, a land where, if you work hard, you can get ahead.
From the start, a steady stream of people in search of freedom and opportunity have left their own lands to make this land their home.
We are acting to prevent nuclear materials from falling into the wrong hands, and to rid the world of land mines.
We should restore contaminated urban land and buildings to constructive use.
This Lands Legacy endowment represents by far the most enduring investment in land preservation ever proposed.
We must work together to strengthen the farm safety net, invest in land conservation, and create new markets by expanding our program for bio-based fuels and products.
One thousand days to build a bridge to a land of new promise.
Nor all unmindful, thou, the while, Land of the dark and mystic Nile!
Oh, goodly and grand is our hunting to see, In this "land of the brave and this home of the free.
Visiting angels, to their olden home If the dead fathers of the landlook forth From their fair dwellings, to the things of earth, Is it a dream, that with their eyes of love, They gaze now on us from the bowers above?
Shall our own glorious land retain That curse which Europe scorns to bear?
Now, when our land to ruin's brink is verging, In God's name, let us speak while there is time!
The lords of our land to this hunting have gone, As the fox-hunter follows the sound of the horn; Hark!
To the land of the South, of the charter and chain, Of Liberty sweetened with Slavery's pain; Where the cant of Democracy dwells on the lips Of the forgers of fetters, and wielders of whips!
Is this the land our fathers loved, The freedom which they toiled to win?
Each time the waves at full height stormed the mountain, the spray was dashed up to a monstrous height; from afar it seemed as though the great white sea-monsters of the old legends were trying to land just at that very spot.
And those who lay under that again, for in many places there had been land where there now was sea.
It is as though any female commoner in the land claimed to have been the wife of an alleged husband.
I hope you'll buy land all the same, and I do hope it will be properly settled when you marry.
They would still go to the distant land on which his heart was set, though it might be only for awhile; and she, with playfulness, declared that she would go there as Mrs. Thwaite.
But he still was resolved that before he departed for the far western land he would obtain from Anna Lovel herself an expression of her determination to renounce him.
But at home Serjeant Bluestone was all the judges of the land rolled into one.
The tract of the city which we see from the terrace on the Pincian hill, looking towards the Janiculum, has been called the most historic plot of land in the world.
When at length it got under way, it might be put back again to land two peasants who had got into the wrong train.
In place of the inexorable penalty which would alone meet the case in a land where lawlessness has prescriptive rights and where capital punishment does not exist, there is a pleasing uncertainty about all penalties.
The intellect of Italy has constantly spread a banquet before the spirit of Europe, as the beauty of the land from north to south has offered a feast of material beauty to every generation.
In the city which inherits the sour persecuting spirit of Westphalia, for example, Catholicism is a very different thing from what it is in the land of its birth.
There is no real culture in any class, but there is a facility unmatched even in this land of natural gifts.
A part of the land toward the north rises more than a thousand feet perpendicularly from the sea.
Upon looking in the direction pointed out, I could not perceive the faintest appearance of the shore--indeed, I was too well aware that we were far from any land to indulge in a hope of that nature.
Palmer's Land lies south of the Shetland, latitude sixty-four degrees, and tends to the southward and westward farther than any navigator has yet penetrated.
Scarcely had we got our prize alongside, when the man at the masthead gave the joyful shout of "land on the starboard bow!
These particulars being made known to the Royal Geographical Society of London, the conclusion was drawn by that body "that there is a continuous tract of land extending from 47 degrees 30' E.
The land in all of them is very high, especially in Tristan d'Acunha, properly so called.
About noon Parker declared that he saw land off the larboard quarter, and it was with the utmost difficulty I could restrain him from plunging into the sea with the view of swimming toward it.
An agreement having been thus entered into, we proceeded immediately to land everything necessary for preparing the buildings and clearing the ground.
The royal penguins which we met with on Kerguelen's Land were rather larger than a goose.
Outside it rained over land and water, over the encircling forest which walled in this stretch of spectral world where the monotony of her days was spent.
A narrow tongue of dry land scarcely three inches above the swamp level was the trail they followed.
The January night was magnificent; he could scarcely comprehend that this languid world of sea and palm, of heavy odour and slow breezes, was his own land still.
Do you know that it seems to me as though in that girl all sections of the land were merged, as though the freshest blood of all nations flowing through the land had centred and mingled to produce that type of physical perfection!
There's the Fortnightly Club, and various charities too, and dinners and teas and all sorts of things to do outdoors on land and on water.
The Crackers call the gopher a salamander, and they also call the land turtle a gopher.
Like the Land itself--with perhaps the blood of many nations in your veins.
To secure this the town voted the Association a considerable tract of land on which to build, and in addition a large wooded park.
Let us arouse ourselves that we may not so lose these opportunities God has given to win this land for Christ.
It has deluged France in blood, for its time has not yet come; but it will come, and the land of the vine will yet be free.
But the relations between the Premier and the widow Pretty, which promised, as the title hinted, to be the main attraction, were such as never could have occurred on landor sea.
Agriculture, all over this table-land of the Ziscaberg, I should judge to be bad.
By landand sea; handsomely done by Pitt on both elements.
But does your Comand extend to the Sea or the land service?
Heywood was fond of stirring adventures: he is quite at home on the sea, and delights in nothing more than in describing a sea-fight; witness his Fortunes by Land and Sea, and the two parts of the Fair Maid of the West.
Sirra, view well these soldiers, And freely telle us, thinke you these will prove Such hens as are your English, when next yeare They land in your owne Country.
Don Francisco Bustament is carryed aboord our Generalls ship, where he had a soldier like welcome; but he & all his company are put over to Port Reall upon the maine land because they should not succour the Citty.
O mony, Nephew: Ide thought youde learnd ith Citty How to use mony: here we do imploy it To purchase land and other necessaries.
To waste the Land within that with lesse danger The forraigne Enemy might make his entraunce.
But he has now more land then three of the best in the shire, thanke the Duchmen that have drunk up all the water.
I cry your worship mercy, you sold him land the last terme; I had forgott that.
Lett no dark corner of the Land Bee unimbellisht with one Gemme, And those which here too thick doe stand Sprinkle on them.
Some frends of myne lost a great deale of land the last terme, and for ought I know tis never like to be recover'd.
This land contains fine paddy fields, and abounds in all kinds of animals, flowers, and fruits.
The tide turning against us, anchored close under the landto avoid being seen.
If I had known what I know now, I would have come out to that land and sung to it all night.
This circular, in the interest of railroad companies, is signed by Willis Drummond, commissioner, and directed to registers and receivers of district land offices.
The company can, under its charter, take all the timber from the land it does not select, and then take its twenty sections in coal lands, when they can be found.
Clearly it could not, unless takingland for such a purpose was taking land for public use.
The advocates of the railroad land grant and subsidy bond system for the settlement of a country have the following to say in its favor.
About forty years ago the land between the two villages was unenclosed.
We must pass into the border-land between two Worlds, and there inquire at the Oracles of Revelation touching the Unseen and Spiritual powers which thrill through the mighty sacrament of the visible Creation.
They very seldom employ their land for unprofitable uses, such as flower gardens, or fine walks; believing useful things more for the public good, and their own.
Notwithstanding which, the landhardly suffices to support its inhabitants; and one may venture to say, that to live comfortably they have need of a country as large again.
Your land sow with the best of seed, Let it nor dung, nor dressing need, Enclose and drain it with all speed, And you will soon be rich indeed.
Thus, sir, I have ventured uninvited to set forth rather fully to you the hopes and fears of a nation which has developed itself on a narrow strip of land between the two abysses of Pangermanism and Panslavism.
The men of this land never feared to oppose their powerful neighbors, the kings of France or Spain--now heroes, now victims, Artevelde and Egmont.
Only fifty years ago the Russian Government set us free from this bondage; but, at the same time, it committed the grave injustice of leaving all our land in the hands of German proprietors.
Were not vast sums of money retained in the land by the cultivation of this vegetable, which would otherwise have been used to purchase rice and other grains in foreign countries?
I know that you left your heart in Italy, and that it is the longing of love that calls you back to the sunny land from the bleak north.
Sea andLand Battles of the Spanish-American War in Cuba, Camp Life, and Return of the Soldiers.
Therefore I am going, Wolf, although I am very curious to hear of your promised land and of your discoveries and purchases, but for this I will have to wait till the afternoon.
The ladies were fascinated by this handsome countenance, these lustrous eyes, and the eloquent lips which described sunny Italy, the land of promise, of art and poetry, in such glowing colors.
I bought a piece of landin America, large enough to make a little duchy in Germany.
He had elected to land beside the little lake that was set like a three hundred-acre gem on the surface of Z-40, and it was more than possible that the enemy had its den nearby.
Down, down he fell, toland in a dense bed of foliage far below.
Another swinging leap into the dark, to land sprawling in a second tree; a third; a fourth.
It's some sort of beast, powerful, ferocious, that makes it certain death for a man to try to land there.
The Intelligent Whale was hauled up on dry land and can still be seen on exhibition at the corner of Third Street and Perry Avenue in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Just as barbed-wire entanglements on land are blown out of the way by small charges of high explosives, so mined areas of the sea can be cleared by “counter-mining.
Is it right to show the present favoritism to one class of men and inflict a disability on another, in a land whose boast is that all its citizens are free and equal?
This Tennessee land had been in the possession of the family many years, and promised to confer high fortune upon us some day; it still promises it, but in a less violent way.
It will be just what we need to sail over some dense jungle and land down on the plain by the great temple.
In the matter of speed, a limit of a definite kind as regards land animals does exist in nature.
Absolute; meaning thereby (if he means anything new) to replace an affirmative idea by a negational abstract, empty enough to land him at once in American Positivism.
In the first place, they emerge from a border-land between the brute and the man; and border territories are proverbially fertile in disputes.
They disagree, however, in their aims--the ports at which theyland themselves and their disciples.
And as for the possibility of finding it, they are ill discoverers who think there is no land where they can see nothing but sea.
I turn with regret from this land of living light.
For fifty years I have spared and lived niggardly and put shilling to shilling to clear that land and to drain it and round it--and may be, for Acherley is a random spendthrift, I'll yet add that strip of his to it!
But I've saved out of the land like a gentleman, and like my fathers before me, and not by usury.
Cheshire plain, where miles of green country spread themselves in the sunshine, a land of fatness and plenty, of cheese and milk and slow-running brooks.
And vote Radical and prate of Reform and scorn theland that bred you.
It's the farthest I own in that direction, but there's a slip of Acherley's land between us and it.
Our road runs over the land of six small owners, who have all agreed to the terms offered.
Such a driving and foraging up and down the land these days, it's a wonder the horses' hoofs bean't worn off.
Secondly, a way-leave over your land for which the Company will pay--pay most handsomely, although the value added to your mills will far exceed the immediate profit.
But he got away in the end, and ten minutes later he was driving over a land most desolate by day, but by night lurid with the flares of a hundred furnace-fires.
I'll have none of your d--d smoking, stinking steam-wagons on my land in my time!
He had an ear, and a very sharp one, for the piping of the pee-wits in the lowland by the river, and the owl's cadenced cry in the trees about Garth.
