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.

Developers built a major local shopping center, The Quarry Mall, on land vacated by the declining Motor Freight Companies in 1992.

The grave site is located on the Arcadia Hebron plot of land at the corner of Summit Avenue and Dingle Road.

Since 1885, when the Duke of Montrose constructed a road over the eastern shoulder of Craigmore to join the older road at the entrance of the Trossachs pass, Aberfoyle has become the alternative route to the Trossachs and Loch Katrine ; this road, known as the Duke's Road or Duke's Pass, was opened to the public in 1931 when the Forestry Commission acquired the land.

Balsall Heath was agricultural land between Moseley village and the city of Birmingham until the 1850s when expansion along Moseley Road joined the two.

Road transport is by far the dominant carrier of freight and passengers in Ghana ’ s land transport system.

The land served as " a gateway to India, impinging on the ancient Silk Road, which carried trade from the Mediterranean to China ".

Road construction is difficult because of the high areas of population and the limited amount of usable land.

Road transport accounts for about 93 percent of the land transport in Sri Lanka.

* Spain was interested in the German states because it held the territories of the Spanish Netherlands in the western part of the Empire and states within Italy which were connected by land through the Spanish Road.

However to the west of Waterlooville and Purbrook, ( the area bordered by Hambledon Road and London Road ) contains much undeveloped land.

The first electric tram in Melbourne was built in 1889 by the Box Hill and Doncaster Tramway Company Limited — an enterprise formed by a group of land developers — and ran from Box Hill railway station along what is now Station Street and Tram Road to Doncaster, using equipment left over from the Centennial International Exhibition of 1888 at the Royal Exhibition Building.

Through use of the land trade along the Silk Road and maritime trade by sail at sea, the Tang were able to gain many new technologies, cultural practices, rare luxury, and contemporary items.

With a plot of land granted by the Government as the college site, the school authority started to erect a new building at Oxford Road in Kowloon Tong.

In 1806 a Federal Road from Savannah, Georgia to Knoxville, Tennessee was built through Cherokee land.

Founded in 1962 as the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the facility is located on 426 acres ( 1. 72 square kilometers ) of Stanford University-owned land on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California — just west of the University's main campus.

Turkmeni marching lords seized land around the western part of the Silk Road, belonging to the decaying Byzantine Empire.

By the end of the 17th century, the Russians re-established a land trade route between Europe and China under the name of the Great Siberian Road.

In 1871 brothers Robert and John Stewart donated a tract of land along the National Road in Brazil for proposed site of the new courthouse.

For the Elves, however, Eru crafted a Straight Road that peels away from the curvature of the earth and passes to the now-alien land of Aman.

On the southern side of the town, on a triangle of land bounded on the east by the A37, on the north by the line of the former East Somerset Railway, and on the west by Cannard's Grave Road, is Tadley Acres, a modern housing development built on land partly belonging to the Duchy of Cornwall.

:: An extension beyond West Ruislip to Harefield Road and Denham was planned ( and shown on tube maps of the period ) but was abandoned, along with the Northern Heights extensions of the Northern line, due to post-war establishment of the Metropolitan Green Belt around London, which restricted development of land in the area.

The Barlow Road was the first established land path for U. S. settlers through the Cascade Range in 1845, and formed the final overland link for the Oregon Trail ( previously, settlers had to raft down the treacherous rapids of the Columbia River ).

Route 18 continues northwestward into Colts Neck The freeway continues to the northwest through wooded land for several miles, crossing over Normandy Road and to the south of the Pebble Creek Golf Club.

For example, the Celtic Wasteland myth ties the barrenness of a land to a curse that a hero must lift ; Corwin's curse is in part responsible for the Black Road.