He turned from the flying trees to look ahead and saw with an inward boy's eye again the great fieldstone house which, built on one of the many acres of ancestral land bordering the west harbor, had been Izaak's bride-gift to his cousin-wife as the last century ended.

There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

The rest of Gideon's lifetime saw peace in the land, but after Gideon's death, his son Abimelech ruled Shechem as a Machiavellian tyrant guilty for much bloodshed ( see chapters 8 and 9 ).

520 BCE falls between the start of the Persian empire in 539 BCE and 520 BCE a period that saw major kings such as Zerubbabel helped lead the Jews in their return to the land.

The Neolithic period saw extensive deforestation for farming land.

According to the Eureka Chamber of Commerce, railroad workers while clearing way for the track and the next railroad camp saw Eureka, level land with little to clear, and declared, " Eureka!

When envisioning the shape of the cosmos, the Egyptians saw the earth as a flat expanse of land, personified by the god Geb, over which arched the sky goddess Nut.

However, Capra remembers the ship's arrival into New York Harbor, where he saw " a statue of a great lady, taller than a church steeple, holding a torch above the land we were about to enter ".

The plantations of Ireland saw the settlement of Protestant English families on land previously held by Catholics.

The 13th century also saw a general structural change in how land was administered, preparing the shift of political power towards the rising bourgeoisie at the expense of aristocratic feudalism that would characterize the Late Middle Ages.

Etherington argues that no such thing as the Mfecane occurred, the Zulu were no more marauding than any other group in the region, and the land the Voortrekkers saw as empty was not settled by either Zulu or Basotho because those people did not value open lowland plains as pasture.

He said, " As a Christian, when I saw other people lose their lives and lose their land and property ... I felt that it would be a sin before God for me to continue wearing my gold.

Mercantilists felt that to maximize a nation's power all land and resources had to be used to their utmost, and this era thus saw projects like the draining of The Fens.

Many localized militia saw service, together with British Imperial troops, during the New Zealand land wars.

However, both the location of the island and its name were quoted in a Dutch book in 1508, which described a 1505 Portuguese expedition led by Francisco de Almeida from the East Indies: " n the twenty-first day of July we saw land, and it was an island lyng six hundred and fifty miles from the Cape, and called Saint Helena, howbeit we could not land there.

The Whigs, both northern and southern, strongly opposed expansion into Texas, which they ( including Whig Congressman Abraham Lincoln ) saw as an unprincipled land grab.

The Rotkappen saw limited combat service during 1945 and consisted of a winged missile, resembling a large bird about to land with wingtip steering rocket jets.

He was admitted to the bar in 1855 and commenced practice in Chicago ; Harrison came to Chicago because he saw it as a land of opportunity.

As the landmass grew, collecting more dumped rubble as well as silt from the lake, Streeter began to issue deeds to the land to others who saw themselves as " homesteaders " in the growing city of Chicago.

1918 saw a large area of agricultural land to the west of Slough developed as an army motor repair depot, used to store and repair huge numbers of motor vehicles coming back from the battlefields of the First World War in Flanders.

In ancient times, maritime nations such as the city-states of Greece and Phoenicia often established colonies to farm what they saw as uninhabited land.

The project was delayed because the stretch of land at issue runs through Menlo Park, not Palo Alto ; the city reversed its stubborn opposition to widening only after it saw how well the widening of the northern Palo Alto segment turned out.

Mwami Mutara took steps to end the destabilization and chaos he saw in the land.

Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.

When I went for my interview with the director I saw why.

When his eyes began to focus, he saw Jess charging at him with a pitchfork.

One Monday morning I saw him approach the store with a woman and introduce me to her as my new Aunt.

Then she saw Ramey and her face was misshapen with bewilderment.

He saw the most action, beat up more badmen with his bare fists, broke up the most gangs and sent more murderers to the gallows than any other U.S. marshal who lived before or after him.

He saw a pint-sized man with a graying spade beard and an unusually large head.

They saw it before I did, even with my binoculars.

Grigorss overcomes the suitor in battle, delivers the city from its oppressors and marries Sibylla who had fallen in love with the beautiful knight the moment she saw him.

To my great surprise and delight, when they saw the two trees they went rushing off, returning shortly with decorations from their own trees.

It was doing very well, too, having reached the center, and was pursuing its way with commendable singleness of purpose when Mr. Podger saw hazard approaching in the shape of a flashy little sports car.

Beyond that misty gray of the rain, he saw the stretching hutment, low diminutive log cabins, chinked with mud, with doorways a man would have to crouch to get through, with roofs of tenting laid over boughs or boards from hardtack boxes, or fence rails, with cranky chimneys of sticks and dried mud.

He saw the figure of a man in a poncho coming up the company street, with an armful of wood.

Looking around slowly, he saw a marble fireplace, a desk, a low bookcase of mahogany with criss-crossed brass wire instead of glass panes in the doors.

She had taken him out of the schoolhouse and closed the school for the summer, after she saw Miss Snow crack Joel across the face with a ruler for letting a snake loose in the schoolroom.

At the landing she saw Juanita, her face flushed pink with excitement, run down the hall from the kitchen to the front door.

The creature in feathers looked around and David saw the mad eyes, glazed with an insane fear.

He saw with John Hunter now that the perfectability of man was a dream.

Before he left town Pat saw to it that I was fixed up with a job.

His eyes were old and they never saw well, but heated with whisky they'd glare at my noise, growing red and raising up his rage.