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Example sentences for "the land"

  • John Ball laughed aloud, and said: "Well, I perceive we are not yet out of the land of riddles.

  • But if I could not convince my Grandson, how could I convince the highest and most developed Circles in the land?

  • But my Lord has shewn me the intestines of all my countrymen in the Land of Two Dimensions by taking me with him into the Land of Three.

  • They were a gigantic combination of capital, which had crushed all opposition, and overthrown the laws of the land, and was preying upon the people.

  • Every day I suffer a thousand hardships and misfortunes, and have hard work to get even enough bad barley bread to keep myself and my family alive, while the lucky Sindbad spends money right and left and lives upon the fat of the land!

  • And there was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there; for the famine was grievous in the land.

  • And Cain went out from the presence of the LORD, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

  • And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.

  • And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

  • And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.

  • Only a negligible amount of the land is suitable for cultivation, and food accounts for about 25% of imports.

  • Master Robert Shallow, choose what office thou wilt in the land, 'tis thine.

  • The land is burning; Percy stands on high; And either they or we must lower lie.

  • If the judges were not embarked in a conspiracy with the legislature, they would pronounce the resolutions of such a majority to be contrary to the supreme law of the land, unconstitutional, and void.

  • In every country it is a herculean task to obtain a valuation of the land; in a country imperfectly settled and progressive in improvement, the difficulties are increased almost to impracticability.

  • The magistracy, being equally the ministers of the law of the land, from whatever source it might emanate, would doubtless be as ready to guard the national as the local regulations from the inroads of private licentiousness.

  • The treaties of the United States, to have any force at all, must be considered as part of the law of the land.

  • The tide of immigration has brought so deep a deposit of "saloons" and suburban "balls" that the very face of the land is changed, old lovers of that shore know it no more.

  • If we were enjoying our prodigality by living on the fat of the land, there would be less reason to reproach ourselves, for every one has a right to live as he pleases.

  • But I evidently became confused by the twisting and turning of the canyons and gullies, for I did not come to the land of Sari then, nor for a long time thereafter.

  • Ghak was leading us to his own land--the land of Sari.

  • I had determined to make the cave my headquarters, and with it as a base make a systematic exploration of the surrounding country in search of the land of Sari.

  • My brother, Dacor the Strong One, had gone to the land of Sari to steal a mate for himself.

  • But aside from this, there is among educated and thoughtful colored men in all parts of the land a feeling of deep regret, sorrow, and apprehension at the wide currency and ascendancy which some of Mr. Washington's theories have gained.

  • The Land of Beyond Have ever you heard of the Land of Beyond, That dreams at the gates of the day?

  • I'd like to be far on some weariful shore, In the Land of the Blizzard and Bear; Oh, I wish I was snug in the Arctic once more, For I know I am safer up there!

  • I'm lonesome -- I wish I was back, Up there in the land of the Pole.

  • Mombi was not exactly a Witch, because the Good Witch who ruled that part of the Land of Oz 8 Line-Art Drawing had forbidden any other Witch to exist in her dominions.

  • Why, it's the center of the Land of Oz, and the biggest town in all the country.

  • It was a round, domeshaped structure, as are nearly all the farm houses in the Land of Oz.

  • She got blown to the Land of Oz by a cyclone, and while she was here the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman accompanied her on her travels.

  • Their life was public and epicurean; their initiation a mystery; and the highest in the land aspired to join the brotherhood.

  • From your great land a most precious seed was brought to the land of darkness.

  • The land heaved up in peaks and rising vales; it fell in cliffs and buttresses; its colour ran through fifty modulations in a scale of pearl and rose and olive; and it was crowned above by opalescent clouds.

  • In the land of Ev he resumed his own shape again, for the cities and villages were close together and he could easily go on foot from one to another of them.

  • All beasts and birds can talk in the Land of Oz, so when the cow was no longer hungry, it would say: "I want to be Bini Aru again: Pyrzqxgl!

  • Mount Munch On the east edge of the Land of Oz, in the Munchkin Country, is a big, tall hill called Mount Munch.

  • His idea was to raise money, when necessary, on the land registered, by giving security thereon after a form which he suggested.

  • To complete the subjection of the Israelites, their conquerors made captive all the smiths of the land, and carried them away.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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