* A flat coast is one where the land gradually descends into the sea.

At God's command Abraham descends from his home into the land of Canaan, given to him by God, where he dwells as a sojourner, as does his son Isaac and his grandson Jacob.

The game is darker, dealing with death and tragedy in a manner not previously seen in the series, and has a sense of impending doom, as a large moon slowly descends upon the land of Termina.

According to some sources, the name Bagheria ( by way of old Sicilian Baarìa ) originates from the Phoenician term Bayharia meaning " land that descends toward the sea.

Soon after, a magical mist descends on the land leaving it empty of all domesticated animals and humans apart from the four protagonists.

From there the land descends into the Kankakee Outwash Plain until the Kankakee River is reached.

In law, the rule of inheritance whereby land descends to the oldest son.

A study published in 2007 in PLoS Genetics, led by University of Michigan and University College London researchers, suggests that the Bering land bridge migration occurred 12, 000 years ago, that every human who migrated across the land bridge came from Eastern Siberia, and that every Native American directly descends from that same group of Eastern Siberian migrants.

To land, the airspeed and the rate of descent are reduced such that the object descends at a slow enough rate to allow for a gentle touch down.

The land descends from the more than 800m tall hills ( the highest elevation is the 863m high Bleßberg ) down to the lower plains Sonneberger Unterland and Schalkauer Platte.

To land, the airspeed and the rate of descent are reduced such that the aircraft descends at a slow enough rate to allow for a gentle touch down.

It descends gently from here, first on private land belonging to the descendants of Jay Gould, then into the Big Indian-Beaverkill Range Wilderness Area, part of the Forest Preserve in the Catskill Park.

When Gesar reaches his eighties, he briefly descends to Hell as a last episode before he leaves the land of men and ascends once more to his celestial paradise.

The eastern part of Harringay is low-lying, at between 60 and 90 feet, as the land descends towards the Lea Valley, to the east.

However, a mist descends on the land, leaving it empty and desolate.

South of the fault, the land descends in steps until levelling off at the South Cameroon Plateau.

The parish extends mostly north and north-east of the village, in which directions the land rises gently and then descends to the Glyme at Glympton and Wootton about to the north-east.

The notch is at the upper or northern end of this gorge ( constituting the extreme southern end of a panhandle at the southeastern corner of the town of Carroll ), where the land descends both to north and south, and ascends both to east and west.

The most famous hole is the third, a par 5, dogleg right, of 500 yards, where the fairway simply ends about 300 yards from the tee, as the land descends into a vast, deep bunker, nicknamed the ' Cardinal ', about 50 yards across, which is buttressed by railway ties.

The land rises steeply behind Bilgola Beach to Bilgola Plateau and then descends to Clareville on the western side of the peninsula.

For less than a dozen miles from the unplowed land of the dead man lived another settler who had ignored the warnings that his existence might be foreclosed on -- a blatant and defiant rustler named Fred Powell.

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.

`` 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.

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.

Gorton and company, however, promptly bought land from Miantonomi a few miles south of Pawtuxet, extending from the present Gaspee Point south to Warwick Neck and twenty miles inland.

Whatever land you can see here, from the North tip end of Elliott Key looking southward, belongs to someone -- people who have title to the land.

After looking about a bit, Wilson discovered beyond Black Bottom, across the river and far removed from the white city, a considerable tract of land, and it occurred to him that the church and the better Negro homes might gradually be moved to this plot.

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.

Most counties also have maps available from the county engineer showing roads and other features and from the assessor's office showing ownerships of land.

Resolved, that we find in this fearful tragedy at Harper's Ferry a reason for more earnest effort to remove the evil of slavery from the whole land as speedily as possible.

To many of us, this is a land to which we or our parents fled from totalitarian terror in order to live in dignified freedom.

The high cost of land and a few operational problems resulting from excessive loadings have created the need for a wastewater treatment system with the operational characteristics of the oxidation pond but with the ability to treat more organic matter per unit volume.

Hughes supported Gov. Meyner's `` Green Acres '' plan for saving large tracts of open land from the onrush of urban development.

McNair, 25, was seized March 20 with four Cubans and accused of trying to land a boatload of rifles in Pinar Del Rio, about 35 miles from Havana.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.

Lincoln spent many hours a week talking to politicians from across the land and using his patronage powers — greatly expanded over peacetime — to hold the factions of his party together, build support for his own policies, and fend off efforts by Radicals to drop him from the 1864 ticket.

The earliest amphibians evolved in the Devonian Period from sarcopterygian fish with lungs and bony-limbed fins, features that were helpful in adapting to dry land.

Air-breathing arthropods began to evolve and invaded the land where they provided food for the carnivorous amphibians that began to emerge from the waters.

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 they evolved from lunged fish, amphibians had to make certain adaptations for living on land.

Locomotion on land is by walking and the tail often swings from side to side or is used as a prop, particularly when climbing.