The shadow-path ran overland from Leipsic to the Japanese sea, so that the solar appurtenances would, it was hoped, be disclosed to observers echeloned along a line of 6,000 miles.
I thought of a little overland trip I had once undertaken, in India, with the identical object of avoiding a long circuitous railway journey--from Udaipur to Mount Abu.
Ye might remember thar was one man got away and giv' the alarm, but he was goin' on to the States by the overland coach that night and couldn't stay to be a witness.
The hue and cry had been given by apparently the only one of the travelers who escaped, but as he was hastening to take the overland coach to the East at the time, his testimony could not be submitted to the coroner's deliberation.
I am the only man who escaped from the robbery that night at Heavy Tree Hill and who went home by the Overland Coach.
On December 18th the overland expedition started, far south of Nome, with four sleds and forty-one dogs, nine dogs being harnessed to each of the sleds belonging to Alexis and fourteen to the heavy one from the ship.
Columbia River vessel which blew over a sand-bar and had to be taken overland through a forest to be launched again.
From there the Bear went to Cape Prince of Wales, and here Eric fell in with Joey Blake, the former first mate of one of the whaling vessels rescued by the famous Overland Expedition in 1897.
It's overland and overland and overseas to--where?
They journeyed overland from Te Waimate to Auckland, Mr. Skevington going to attend the Auckland Synod.
The navigation of the Caspian was completely abandoned, and the few Asiatic goods which Russia could not dispense with were conveyed to that country by expensive and perilous overland routes.
As this will be sent by the overland despatch, there is some danger of its not reaching you.
He went to India overland through Turkish Asia, disguised as a Georgian Turk, so that the Mecca pilgrims at Damascus did not discover him.
My dearest Lydia,--With this you will receive the duplicate of the letter I sent you a month ago, by the overland despatch.
About a fortnight ago I sent you a letter accompanying the duplicate of the one sent overland in August.
The instant your mind is made up you will send a letter by the overland despatch.
To Mrs. Brown at Aldeen, who was his confidante in India, Martyn wrote on July 21: It appears that the letter by the overland despatch did not reach Lydia.
The animals they convoyed had come overland from Aquileia to Altinum and from there to Ravenna by sea.
My curiosity was excited as to why they were now coming overland instead of going by sea.
But the former plan of operations would have entailed a long overland march before the objective was reached, and the latter the maintenance of communications over difficult and mountainous country.
Stores for the right army were landed at the mouth of the Yalu River, and then were transported overland on a light railroad for which horses were the motive power, to points well in reach of General Kuroki.
Captain Hawkins landed at Surat and travelled overland to Agra, passing some time at the court of the Great Mogul.
He reached the White Sea, performed the journey overland to Moscow, where he was well received, and may be said to have been the founder of the trade between Russia and England.
Their missionaries were received at the court of Akbar, and Benedict Goes, a native of the Azores, was despatched on a journey overland from Agra to China.
Beyond the bend an overland journey must commence.
And on the completion of the Union and Central Pacific railways the great period of the overland mail was ended.
The overland traffic, which was assuming great volume as the surveys progressed, had yet nearly fifteen years before the railway should drive it out of existence.
One of the earliest steps in the strategy of the war was the organization of an Army of the West at Fort Leavenworth, with orders to march overland against Mexico and Upper California.
The overland emigrants were largely of farmer stock; whether they had possessed frontier experience or not before the start, the 3000-mile journey toughened and seasoned all who reached California.
Like that of Governor Stevens this route was not the channel of any regular traffic, although later it was to have some share in the organized overland commerce.
The number of the overland emigrants can never be told with accuracy.
Parallel to the overland mail rolled an overland freight that lacked the seeming romance of the former, but possessed quite as much of real significance.
The Butterfield Overland Express began to work its six year contract in September, 1858.
In the pony express was the spectacular perfection of overland service.
In November the terminus of the overland mail route was moved west to Fort Kearney, Nebraska, whither the Union Pacific had now arrived in its course of construction.
The vast importance of establishing an overland trade route between India and China will be seen by a glance at the map.
An overland passage between China and Burmah has long been known and made use of by the native merchants of these countries.
Sir George Simpson was at this time on his famousoverland journey round the world, having the previous day, Sept.
The Portland Oregonian then predicted that there would follow "tremendous stampedes from California, a flood of overland immigration and vastly increased business on the Columbia.
We remounted the fame-worn steps of Porter's Station, and began exploring North Cambridge for some means of transportation overland to Concord, for we were that far on the road by which the British went and came on the day of the battle.
Suggest that Lambert as soon as he gets it might ride overland from the Crossing to the nearest point on the Swan.
Nobody knows how far it is overland from the Crossing to the Swan River.
We bought horses from the Beaver Indians and rode overland to Swan Lake.
Its provisions were designed, no doubt, to meet the unusual conditions presented by the overland emigration to California.
Oregon held a strategic position on the Pacific, controlling the overland route between the Atlantic and the Orient.
Military protection for the emigrant, a telegraph line, and an overland mail were among the ostensible objects.
McLoughlin came overland to Fort George (Astoria), arriving there in 1824.
The real Oregon pioneers are these overland immigrants who came to Oregon prior to 1847.
The rest of the immigrants went to The Dalles overland with their wagons.
After first arriving at the Columbia River, they straggled and struggled along the Columbia River to Fort Vancouver--a few driving cattle, goingoverland by the Indian trail from near The Dalles to Oregon City.
In 1834 Wyeth again came overland to the Columbia River with a large party.
Men went from one colony to another by sailing vessel; overland they traveled on horseback; and if a wife went with her husband, she rode behind him on a pillion.
Still others hurried to the Missouri to make the overland journey across the plains.
As the railroad progressed, the overland coaches plied between the ends of the two sections, their runs growing shorter and shorter till, when the road was finished, the overland stagecoach was discontinued.
In 1271 Marco Polo, then a lad of seventeen, was taken by his father and uncle from Venice to the coast of Persia, and thence overland to northwestern China, to a city where Kublai Khan held his court.
Paddling up the St. Lawrence and Lake Ontario, these men carried their canoes around Niagara Falls, coasted along Lake Erie to a place near Chautauqua Lake, and going overland to the lake went down its outlet to the Allegheny River.
The difficulties of the overlandroute were most formidable, but Troyes surmounted them with the loss of only one man.
It is difficult to say what did influence the minds of these savages; but in a few days they set out, taking, however, a route of their own by way of the Georgian Bay and overland to what is now Toronto.
One of these is by ship through the Red Sea, the Suez Canal, and the Mediterranean; the other is overlandfrom the northwestern provinces of India through Afghanistan into southeastern Europe.
In fact, there are three overland routes from northwestern India into Europe.
The third overland route passes through Persia and Turkey in Asia up to Constantinople.
The first twooverland routes are guarded by Russian medical inspectors.
The valley of Crawling Stone River marked for more than a decade the dead line between the Overland Route of the white man and the last country of the Sioux.
I will give you two if you will give us excursions and run some of the Overland passenger trains through the valley.
In handling, it was a decided advantage that the little nucleus had known herd restraint, in trailing overland from Texas, and were obedient, at a distance of fifty yards, to the slightest whistle or pressure of a herdsman.
During the lay-over, Straw had lost his place in the overland march, two herds having passed him and crossed the Beaver.
The next morning the accepted cattle were counted and received, the through outfits relieved, the remudas started overland under a detail, and the remainder of the men sent home by rail.
Bolivar joined his victorious lieutenant at Quito, incorporated Ecuador with his new republic of Colombia, and proceeded overland to Guayaquil, where San Martin lost no time in going to meet him for a conference.
A fleet was improvised at Valparaiso which obtained command of the Pacific coast, cutting off the Spaniards in Ecuador from receiving supplies except overland from the Caribbean ports.
Still larger forces were on their way overland from Peru.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "overland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
