This pestilence was one of the epoch-making events in the history of the empire, as great a landmark as the Black Death in the history of England.
He could not even find the hills which had been the landmark upon which he depended.
If one notes some point or pinnacle as a landmark to-day, to-morrow he will have lost his bearings, for the outlines will have been changed.
After a few days of eventful travel by way of Sturt's Duck Ponds, the Macquarie River was struck a few miles below Mount Harris, which had been an important landmark for explorers since the time of Oxley.
From this point Oxley's Table-land, a well-known landmark with former explorers, was plainly visible.
The continent was first sighted on the 6th of December at the old landmark of the Leeuwin, which had hitherto been believed to be an island, but was now found to be connected with the mainland, and henceforth known as Cape Leeuwin.
The junction of these two rivers now became an important landmark for the remainder of the journey, and the place has ever since played a conspicuous part in the opening up and settlement of the back country.
The march was now towards this prominent landmark of the unknown domain of nature.
It can only be regarded as a fresh landmark in the progression of his genius.
The consequence was that towards nightfall he found himself several miles from camp, or indeed any landmark which he had passed in the early part of the day.
In the centre of the village stood a windmill, placed on a little moss-grown slope: it was a landmark to all the level country round.
Its advent is noted here that it may be set as a landmark in the development of American grape-culture.
This is the earliest estimate of the vineyard acreage of the country and is therefore a landmark in American viticulture.
A landmark for miles around is the solitary rock named the Morro de Arica which towers above the town.
Facing it is the huge unfinished brick basilica, the Matriz, the white dome of which is a landmark for quite a distance, and is visible from all parts of the city.
On the cerro rise the whitewashed houses of the town of Villa del Cerro, while at its bottom slopes near the La Plata mouth there is a large eucalyptus grove of dark green color, a landmark for many miles at sea.
It is built on the summit of the hill above the business section of the city and is a landmark for many miles.
At the western end of the harbor is the cerro which marks the mouth of the La Plata and which is the only hill worthy of the name until that of Lambare is reached one thousand miles up the river, the landmark for Asuncion.
The strolls with Elizabeth, his gentle-hearted wife, grew shorter and shorter and less frequent, until they ceased altogether six years after his marriage, and another landmark in the literary history of the city had gone down.
It came to be a landmark for the curious, but as the curious always stood outside and never by any chance went in to buy of what was on sale there, it went the way of all old places.
Tom, on his part, often took note of his compass, then flashed a glance up at the stars, and finally sought to discover some landmark far down below that was marked upon the chart.
I thought we ought to have some sort of landmark to guide us if we should be in a hurry coming back.
It was now easy to pick up one landmark after another, and in due course of time they passed over the lines once more.
Besides its immediate efficacy in liberating slaves at home, it rises already a landmark of Human Progress.
In the opening chapter of this book I directed attention to the ravages in the service of our national railroad structure that any man can readily find for himself.
Somehow that timber will get lost before the car gets back to the mines again.
With the right kind of luck they would come to the gorge of Arak some time the next day, and another landmark on Fekmah's duplicate map would have been noted.
The others were in favor of doing so, for Fekmah might catch sight of something that would be recognized as a landmark on the map.
I had given my compass to Weatherbee, and there was no sun to take bearings from, not a landmark in sight.
He set his horse towards Belford, going decently by roundabout ways and paths from landmark to landmark that he might not trample down the long grass of which his bondsmen were making their hay all about him.
On this night we anchored under the Sentinel Rock (Shih-pao-chai), perhaps the most remarkablelandmark on the river.
Monseigneur Fenouil is a landmark of Western China; he first set foot in the province in 1847, and is the oldest foreign resident in the interior of China.
If he is traveling north of his landmark he can return to it by going south, and the compass will tell him quickly which direction is south.
As long as the hill is in sight he has clear sailing, but when the forest hides his landmark from view he keeps traveling straight ahead, maintaining his same position with reference to the sun.
In every existence comes one supreme, all-important moment, which thenceforth is the landmark by which life is measured; the climacteric point to which the past merely served to lead, the future availing only to enshrine its memory.
Another landmark is passed,--the iron spring, with its red mouth framed in green ferns, where he had once journeyed to bring her a flask of the strengthening water.
The town had been from the earliest times a landmark of the old Santa Fe trail.
It was in the sheltered draw just below where the one lone cottonwood tree made a landmarkon the Plains--a deserted habitation now, and said to be haunted by the spirit of the unhappy mother.
Like a cloudburst of summer was this winter cloudburst of snow, burying every trail and covering every landmark with a mocking smoothness.
Point by point, I watched every landmark take form, waiting to see if each new blot on the landscape might not be the first of the dreaded Indian bands whose coming we so feared.
And then we walked on until before us stood that graceful little locust tree, the landmarkof the prairie.
It made a landmark of the spot, this beautiful natural forest, and gave it a place on the map as a meeting-ground for the wild tribes long before the days of civilized occupation.
This cloud-compassed landmark we shall not lose sight of in three days' travel.
In all directions every sort of landmark seemed to be obliterated.
We could dimly discern the breakers ahead, and close aboard; but it was impossible to distinguish any landmark in so dense a fog.
We had been unable to distinguish any landmark before the storm burst in all its fury upon us, and the rain poured in torrents.
Cicero's letter of advice to his brother on the government of a province may seem a tissue of truisms now, though Warren Hastings and Sir Elijah Impey would hardly have found it so, but it is a landmark in the history of civilization.
The Indian Railways are also likely to be a landmark in the history of civilization.
The city likewise made of itself a landmark during the Hundred Years' War.
Neglect, if slow, was steady in her task of ruining that ancient church, now become a landmark only; but a landmark equally useful to the critic of church history, and to the raftsman guiding his float across the lake.
