Mayor and Communalty purchased the patronage thereof with all the landes and tenementes thereunto belonging, in the yeare 1546, the same yeare King Henry the eight gave this Hospitall unto the Cittie.
One chapter of his Complaint contains “A Godly aduisement howe to bestowe the goodes and landes of the Bisshops &c.
Such was the story told by my Indian friend; and thousands of such tales are still common in the Landes of France.
He looked over the Landesand found it to be nothing more than a waste of shifting sand.
The Landes is quite a prosperous province to-day compared with what it was in the time of Louis XVI.
The Landes is peopled by a strange race, of whom the traveller speeding along the railway to-day may catch occasional glimpses.
They are so much a part of the daily life of the people that, except when he stoops his head to enter his hut, the peasant of the Landes would as soon think of taking off his legs by way of resting himself as of removing his stilts.
To-day the vast extent of the Landes is almost entirely covered with dark forests in perpetual verdure.
Next to the shepherds, the most remarkable live stock in the Landes are the sheep.
But France was not wise enough to accept what Spain had cast out, and the Landes remained a waste for three centuries longer.
Let us not forget that these sheltered landes are, at certain hours, burning hot.
In the Landes behind the pine woods, the herbs and even the coarse grass on which you tread, yield perfumes not enervating or intoxicating as the dangerous roses, but agreeably bitter.
The fame of Troie and Brute, his glorie and renoume, what landes knoweth not?
Of Pope John and his landes and of the costely keyes and wonders molo dyes that in that lande is.
We treaded the sayd landes about toward the South: from the sayd day vntill Tewesday noone following, the winde came West, and therefore wee bended toward the North, purposing to goe and see the land that we before had spied.
Being arriued there, we found the sayd landes as it were ioyned together, and low toward the Sea.
Entering the department of Gers, the Adour receives the Arros on the right bank and begins to describe the large westward curve which takes it through the department of Landes to the sea.
This very district, the Landes in France, was once practically a desert, and famous as such in French history.
When travelling through the coast forests of pine trees in the Landes of Western France, one notices great bare gashes on the stems leading round and down the trunk to a small tin cup or spout.
These landes lye ouer against Tartarie, and I doubt not but that they stretch toward Asia, according to the roundnesse of the world.
Bristowe, and very fewe or none of the like burden alonge the channell of the Severne from Glocester to the Landes Ende on the one side, and Milforde Haven on the other.
We trended the saydlandes about toward the South: from the sayd day vntill Tewesday-noone following, the winde came West, and therefore wee bended toward the North, purposing to goe and see the land that we before had spied.
Tyger fell with the Landes end, and the same day came to anker at Falmouth.
Come downe, come downe, my daughter deare, 175 Thou art a leeche of skille; Farre lever had I lose halfe my landes Than this good knighte sholde spille.
In the sub-commissioners' towns the head officials must be Englishmen, but among the regions under the Landes Hoheit in the hinterland, Africans educated as doctors or as traders could have grand careers provided they did honest work.
But when complete sovereignty or 'Landes Hoheit,' is conceded, they invariably stipulate that their local customs and systems of government shall be respected.
Footnote: It is stated that in the pine woods of the Landes of Gascony a fire has never been known to cross a railway-track or a common road.
The Landes of Sologne and of Brenne are less known than those of Gascony, because they are not upon the old great lines of communication.
Landes by watercourses constructed for the purpose.
When in regular herding dress, the shepherd of the Landes appears one uncouth mass of dirty wool.
And next day he would have relapsed into the old creed, thatLandes cows never gave milk at all.
The native of the Landes reluctantly admitted that was the truth, and the other went on:-- "These fellows here on the stilts are the most confounded gamblers in Europe.
These Landes form one of the strangest and wildest parts of France.
By these two great features of the district, occasionally diversified by sweeps of green morass, intersected by canals and lanes of stagnant and often brackish water, the Landes take a goodly slice out of La Belle France.
With his legs spread out, and his back-stay firmly pitched, the shepherd of the Landes feels as much at home as you would in the easiest of easy chairs.
The Landes man would have no objection; and the cow would be brought and milked before him.
Meantime, having made the aspect of the Landes familiar to the reader, I pursue the thread of my journey.
At one place the Landes are almost sixty miles broad, but to the north they fine gradually away, the great river Garonne shouldering them, as it were, into the sea.
The view was not very good, but so far as they could make out, the depot was a replica of that in the Landes clearing.
The syndicate had chosen the pine forests of the Landes for their operations because they wanted timber close to the sea.
Were it not for the admirable 'trottoirs,' people must go on stilts, as they do in the Landes near Bourdeaux.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
