The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.

He had belonged to this land and, perhaps, had desecrated it -- and this was the only material symbol that remained of him.

And in the hunting land, this hunger was considered to be a noble thing.

This was the land of the sladang, the great water buffalo with horns forty inches across the spread.

Prohibition was the law of the land, but it was unpopular ( how many of us oldsters took up drinking in prohibition days, drinking was so gay, so fashionable, especially in the sophisticated Northeast!!

The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.

`` Everything tasted differently from what it does on land and those things I was most fond of at home, I loathed the most here '', Ann noted.

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

This was historic in its way, for it marked the first time an American Presidential aspirant had advertised his own virtues in his own string of newspapers spanning the land.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

To consolidate what her Navy had won, the Czarina was fortunate that, for the first time in Russian history, her land forces enjoyed absolute unity of command under her favorite Giaour.

Potemkin's Army of Ekaterinoslav, totaling, it was claimed, 40,000 regular troops and 6,000 irregulars of the Cossack Corps, had invested Islam's principal stronghold on the north shore of the Black Sea, the fortress town of Oczakov, and was preparing to test the Turk by land and sea.

To help him do so The Prince had conferred control of his land forces on a soldier who was different from him in almost every respect save one: both were eccentrics of the purest ray serene.

From the east to the west coast of the Korean peninsula was a strip of land in which fear-filled men were at that same moment furtively crawling through the night, sitting in sweaty anticipation of any movement or sound, or shouting amidst confused rifle flashes and muzzle blasts.

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

Or was he now taking the role -- the gesture and the suffering -- because it was the only way to affirm his history and identity in the torpid, befogged loneliness of this land.

The land of the Lublin Uplands was rich, but no one seemed to care.

Hino was the fourth son of an elderly farmer who lived on the coast, in Chiba, and divided his life between the land and the sea, supplementing the marginal livelihood on his small rented farm with seasonal employment on a fishing boat.

In many others, the previous patenting of land under the public land laws, or the way in which land was available for purchase, resulted in a scattered pattern of ownership.

The rest of the land was surveyed and parceled out to various American claimants ( See Kellersberger's Map ).

By contrast, Pétion broke up the former colonial estates and parceled out the land into small holdings.

The land was parceled out to the conquistadores.

After the war, the land of the Iroquois was parceled out to veterans of the army in payment for their military service.

In 1683, William Penn signed a treaty with the local chief and parceled the land to the Free Society of Traders.

After his death, the land was parceled to a number of people.

These original grants were parceled eventually into smaller pieces of land and sold to subsequent settlers, such as Trimble, Edwards, Lister and Shepherd, among others.

Baker apparently bought out his partners and, in turn, sold the parcel to James Hanway, a surveyor living in Monongalia County, who parceled the land and began selling it.

During the following centuries, the medieval feudal system allowed the land to be progressively parceled out to landowners from places as far as Dendermonde and Tournai.

The conquered land was parceled out to Ottoman nobles, who held it as feudal fiefs ( timars and ziamets ) directly under the Sultan's authority.

De Lacy parceled out most of this land to his vassals, who were to hold these lands from him, as he had held all Meath from King Henry, by military tenure.

** Subdivision ( land ), a term for an urban or suburban area, especially if recently parceled up into smaller plots for new uses

Later kings parceled out the forest land to churches, monasteries, bishoprics and nobles resulting in the fragmentation of the formerly royal forest and the erosion of its boundaries and legal status.

The original Spanish land grant was parceled out in 1960 into over 7, 200 2. 5 acre ( 10, 000 m < sup > 2 </ sup >) sections by optimistic real estate developers.

Since most of the land in Indiana was soon parceled out to settlers, the Miami could not long enjoy the privilege of hunting on open land that was "… the property of the United States.

In the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Knevitt and the Musgraves parceled out the land to their tenants as freehold estates.

When Dizengoff learned that residents were organizing to build a new neighborhood, Tel Aviv, he formed a partnership with the Ahuzat Bayit company and bought land on the outskirts of Jaffa, which was parceled out to the early settlers by lot.

The manor owners in Rus ' usually relied on direct production of their land and chose not to rent it out which proved a stark contrast to feudal Europe in which by the High Middle Ages had most of its land claimed by monarchs, which in turn parceled it to vassals who rented the land to serfs.

The process of secularization of the missions was in its final stages, and it was at this time that Alvarado parceled out much of their land to prominent Californios via land grants.

He spread the flight out and led them across a point of land and then down the coast.

In `` The King's Ride '', Charles breaks out of a long period of petulance and inertia, regains his old self, escapes from Turkey, and finally reaches his own land after an absence of eighteen years.

Providence finally managed to get Gorton out of the town, and he and some friends bought land at Pawtuxet on the west side of Narragansett Bay, five miles south but still within the jurisdiction of the Providence colony.

They point out simply that `` it is the law of the land ''.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.

The urban land use study carried out by the planning division staff has consisted of identifying and mapping all urban land uses which are of significance to statewide planning.

The rural land use study is being carried out under contract by the University of Rhode Island and identifies all agricultural land uses in the state by type of use.

If you want to raise feed or carry out some enterprise on a larger scale, you'll need more land.

They could also use their strong fins to hoist themselves out of the water and onto dry land if circumstances required it.

At the end of the Devonian period (), the seas, rivers and lakes were teeming with life but the land was the realm of early plants and devoid of vertebrates though some, such as Ichthyostega, may have sometimes hauled themselves out of the water.

It was the development of the amniotic egg, which prevents the developing embryo from drying out, that enabled the reptiles to reproduce on land and which led to their dominance in the period that followed.

When conditions are particularly inhospitable on land, larval breeding may allow continuation of a population that would otherwise die out.

Lynchehaun had been employed by McDonnell as her land agent, but the two fell out and he was sacked and told to quit his accommodation on her estate.

Funds raised from the sale of land were to be used to bring out working class emigrants, who would have to work hard for the monied settlers to ever afford their own land.

Though the are has fallen out of use, the hectare is still commonly used to measure land:

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

After some thought, they rescinded this order, and only put to death the leading 1000 ringleaders of the revolt, and redistributed the land of the entire island to Athenian shareholders, who were sent out to reside on Lesbos.

Alma, the chief judge and governor as well as the high priest over the people of Nephi, lead an army against Amlici and his followers and drove the rebellion out of the land.

The land is predominantly flat to gently undulating tableland, although there is some hilly country, where mining is carried out.

The conniving State Attorney General Hedley Lamarr ( Harvey Korman ) wants to buy the land along the new railroad route cheaply by driving out the townspeople.

Another " big push " is planned, and Captain Blackadder's one goal is to avoid being killed, so he plots ways to get out of it, but his schemes always land him back in the trenches.

Having described how the Israelites and Joshua have carried out the first of their God's commands, the story now turns to the second, to " put the people in possession of the land.