I now purpose to narrate a few circumstances attending this first landing on Wrangel island, which may be best told by further reference to Herald island.
He has also written a book bearing on the adventures of the landing squad in "The Ayesha.
He was present at the Landing and did his best to uphold the honor of Maoriland in the long and grim battle of the trenches.
During our stay at Lemnos we amused ourselves by practising boat drill, landing of troops, etc.
Immediately the Prussian, in one of the latest type battle planes, made his landing and went over to the other machine without bothering to cover the pilot with his revolver, Woodhouse meanwhile lying as if dead.
On the broad landing of a wide marble staircase an orchestra played soldier songs and above the musicians, looking down on his people, loomed a bust of Wilhelm II, Von Gottes Gnaden, Kaiser von Deutschland.
This was reassuring and Nicholl looked like not only riding the Derby and Cup winners but also landing his first Melbourne Cup.
Derbies fell to Glen's share, and he had hopes of landing a Melbourne Cup with a son of Barellan's, who was at the Albury Stud, and a most successful sire.
He immediately responded, and great was the astonishment on his landing on the beach.
We then went for a cruise up the Endeavour River, landing on the right hand bank.
They went there, and on the second day after landing discovered traces of gold.
Our casualties at the original landing had reduced the 29th Division to a mere skeleton.
Like V Beach it was a veritable death trap, but the brave Lancashires, after suffering terrible losses, succeeded in making good the landing and drove the Turks out of their trenches.
There is no doubt that this diversion averted much of the shell fire which would otherwise have been concentrated on those of us landing at V Beach.
The landing on Y Beach was effected by the King's Own Scottish Borderers and the Plymouth Battalion of the Royal Marines.
While the great battle for the landingwas going on, we had been fretting and fuming at being left so long idle spectators.
We in the transports lay off the shore in four parallel lines, each successive line going forward methodically and disembarking the units on board as the ground was made good by the landing parties.
He was now practically the only officer left of the Inniskillings who had taken part in the original landing and had, so far, escaped scot-free.
The sailors who were detailed to assist in the landing performed some heroic deeds.
He was very "haw haw," and said that I had no business to leave my ship until the military landing officer had been aboard.
Of course, at the first landing there was a lamentable medical break-down, and there is no doubt that hundreds of lives were lost because there were not enough doctors, attendants, and stores to go round.
The landing officer there, just before my departure, had begged of me to do what I could in this respect with somebody in authority, as he said he had made repeated requisitions for more tugs and lighters, but all in vain.
With that I left him and returned to the ship, and soon afterwards we were boarded by the landing officers, and the 1,100 men were drafted off to their different units, I going with mine on a trawler to Cape Helles.
The news that the French are landing to-day at Civita Vecchia is ominous indeed.
Then he related briefly the secret gathering of the expedition; the obstacles thrown in its way; its successful landing in Sicily, and the events that had terminated with the expulsion of the Neapolitan forces from the island.
Already, by his instructions, the women had brought out on to the landing sofas, chests of drawers, and other articles, to form a barricade there.
The voyage was altogether unattended by incident; and on landing they made a detour and entered the town from the west, sauntering quietly along, as if they had merely been taking a walk in the country.
Anything, they felt, would be better than the reign of a pope in close alliance with the tyrant of Naples; and the evening after the French landing saw Rome tranquil and grimly determined.
My plan is this: I am sure a thousand or so of the men who fought with me in the Alps will flock to my standard, and with these I intend to effect a landing in Sicily.
Four men had, soon after the landing had been effected, been sent to Missori with orders that he should join at Reggio.
But when he came to the first landing he distinctly heard a sound from the best chamber, the door of which was ajar.
She pulled the hair over her temples to conceal the scars of her morning's accident and met Mrs. Westfield at the landing outside.
The launch moved slowly in toward thelanding and Markham met his visitor, already aware that there was to be a further intrusion on his solitude.
At the Westport landing he found the Countess Olga, wonderfully attired in an afternoon costume of pale green, awaiting him in a motor.
The senior nodded a dignified assent, but he was not quite won over, and retired to his quarters, while his junior inspected the landing of the goods, including the sections of the boat.
In a subsequent passage Admiral Fox says:--) There is a common belief that the first landing place is settled by one or another of the authors cited here.
The next province was then called Cobraba, but Columbus made no landing for want of a proper harbor.
On the twelfth of the month, after a landing in which a cross had been erected, three sailors went inland, pursuing the Indians.
It is not flattering to the English or Spanish speaking peoples that the four hundredth anniversary of this great event draws nigh, and is likely to catch us still floundering, touching the first landing place.
The one who has succeeded in landing a pebble nearest the hole becomes the first player, and takes his stand on a second mark drawn one fourth nearer the hole, all the players meanwhile having gathered up their pebbles again.
None of the players may move forward after once landing on the backs.
It consists in tossing a coin in the air and allowing it to land on the ground, to see which side will fall uppermost, each player having previously chosen a side, or, in other words, taken his chance on that side landing upward.
This is a game played by snapping buttons against a wall, their landing point determining a score.
The player stands in the circle and throws the basket ball from this throwing line toward other lines drawn in the throwing space as specified below, the ball scoring according to its landing in relation to these other lines.
For more expert players, a bag landing on a line does not score at all.
We were there a few minutes before 5 o'clock and went with our friends into a waiting room on the landing stage.
The natives and two soldiers sent to look for these men had missed them by going to the opposite side of the island from that where Rodriguez had been The fleet set sail for Cebú, where after landing they found the village deserted.
They named the island Sant Miguel, because of landing there on the day of his apparition.
One evening I described the landing of the "Mayflower," and some of the New-England winters that followed, and they wished to come down to Indian meal at once as a steady diet.
On our way to the landing I saw Rollins, who readily agreed to Bagley's wish, on condition that I guaranteed payment for the chickens.
We had ample time after reaching the landing to put our horses and vehicles in a safe place, and then we watched for the "Powell.
In response to my letters John Jones had promised to meet us at the Maizeville Landing with his strong covered rockaway, and to have a fire in the old farmhouse.
I had bought at Maizeville Landingsuch provisions, tools, etc.
In the cool of the afternoon, these were placed in the wagon, and with my wife and the three younger children, I drove to the Maizeville Landing with our first shipment to Mr. Bogart.
The sooner I start for the landing the better, so that I can return before it becomes very dark.
There are four hundred men employed here at the Landing in building scows and transhipping.
Minna had planned a trip to theLanding this summer but it happened she did not go after all.
At Athabasca Landing they use the water as a top-dressing for the land.
What is to be done with the portaging party, whom we have met here and who go back to Athabasca Landing on our boat, is beyond a mere woman to say.
We do not leave Soto Landingtill three hours past the scheduled time, for Mr. J.
The Boss is a creature of steel who seems to forget there is much to be done in the last hour or two before a boatman leaves the Landing for the stretched out journey beyond.
It is fourteen rough miles from Mirror Landing to Soto Landing, along a black trail that lifts and dips through the tall ranks of the poplars and pines.
But soon this whole country will be shod with steel, for, even now, you may see navvies building grades as you pass along the trail, and next week the first railway to the Landing will be opened for traffic.
It was nearly too late and Minna was greatly perplexed, for surely she was going to see the Landing and how could she go without the baby's clothing.
For the mare had run up alongside of her great competitor, and together they literally skimmed over the obstacle in front, and landing on the stretch of smooth green sward, raced for home.
It was one of the servants who called, but he was too late; the strange visitor had already reached the landing as Sir Hampton hurried down, aghast at such a daring interruption.
I didn't want to meet her in the full glare of the hall chandelier, so I waited on the upper landing long enough to give them time to go in.
Then he began pulling for the landing with all his might.
Sidenote: Unnecessary Cruelty] It is not a pleasant landing in the land of light and liberty.
Landing in San Francisco, before the exclusion act, he started in American life as a house servant, but finally became a Mott Street merchant, as he had intended from the first.
Sidenote: The First Touch] Home mission work of a distinctive character should and does begin at the point of landing in the New World.
Thus you have passed five government officers since landing on the Island.
This trusty convict was received into high favour on landing in New South Wales and after holding several subordinate appointments became at length a police officer and gained high rank.
On the other hand, the Allies knew that this battle meant the loss or the keeping of the command of the sea, and therefore the possibility or otherwise of starving the United Kingdom into submission after the landing had been effected.
I don't think you have very much to complain of in the French landing at Portsmouth, Beresford," laughed Sir Compton Domville.
I wish we had fifty Ithuriels, there'd be very little landing on English shores.
His place was now the open sea, and a general fleet action offered the only means of preventing an occupation of almost defenceless Portsmouth, and the landing of hostile troops in the very heart of England's southern defences.
Then would come seizure of railway stations and rolling stock, rapid landing of men and horses and guns, and the beginning of the great advance.
M834) Since the news of the prince’s landing there had been a renewal of the attacks made on Roman Catholics and their places of worship in London.
Landing in England on Saturday, the 6th, he proceeded by easy stages to London, where he arrived on the 10th, and took up his residence at Kensington Palace.
M833) On the 5th November the Prince of Orange successfully effected a landing in Torbay.
From five o’clock in the morning until nine at night a double watch was kept at the city’s gates and landing stages on the river.
It was now the eighth day of November (seven months since their landing in the country), and they had at length reached the rich and beautiful city of Mexico.
Nevertheless, the fleet cast anchor, and the landing commenced.
At last he made a landing on the island of St. Juan de Ulua.
Narvaez had made a landing on the coast of Chempoalla, and was soon joined by three Spanish deserters.
They were very proud of their two canoes and made a little landing for them in a convenient cove.
An evening or two after the landing was made secure, Dick, who had been out alone, came home in the dark and found Albert reading a book by the firelight.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "landing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
