It looked as Gavin had first seen it years ago, on those nights when he slept alone by his campfire and waked suddenly to the hoot of an owl or the rustle of a blade of grass in the moon's wind -- a savage land, untenanted and brooding, too strong to be broken by the will of men.

And it's goin' to go on like this year after year until the white people take over this land ''.

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.

Air Force forward headquarters in Europe and in the Pacific, which control tactical fighters on ships and land bases ; ;

The aborigine lives on the cruelest land I have ever seen.

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.

The deployment of a portion of these forces beyond our shores, on land and sea, is persuasive demonstration of our determination to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our allies for collective security.

`` 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.

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.

A cow owned by an old woman trespassed on Gorton's land.

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.

Because the buses would not stop on the parkway, land for bus stations and for parking areas nearby will be needed.

After almost everyone had gone he told me the simple story of how one of his neighbors had moved a fence a few feet over on his land.

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.

He wondered how they could go on in poverty, superstition, ignorance, with a complete lack of desire to make either their land or their lives flourish.

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.

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.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

This work will cover the most serious one-fourth of all land needing such treatment, and will consist of burning 250,000 acres of highly hazardous debris concentration, felling snags on 350,000 acres of high lightning-occurrence areas, prescribed burning on 3.5 million acres, removing roadside fuel on 39,000 acres, and clearing and maintaining 11,000 miles of firebreaks.

Finally, if the Triangle is assumed to cross land, such as parts of Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, or Bermuda itself, there is no evidence for the disappearance of any land-based vehicles or persons.

They persuaded the Proprietors of Carolina to surrender the government of the Bahamas to the king, while retaining title to the land.

The 1, 000 or so pirates on the islands surrendered peacefully and the Proprietors then leased their land in the Bahamas to Rogers ' company for 21 years.

After the American Revolution, the British issued land grants to American Loyalists, and the sparse population of the Bahamas tripled within a few years.

Although by the time of Ponce de Leon, the land was thought to be located in northwest towards the Bahamas ( called la Vieja during the Ponce expedition ), the natives were probably referring to the Maya.

Although the Indians were probably describing the land of the Maya in Yucatan, the nameand legends about Boinca's fountain of youthbecame associated with the Bahamas instead.

There were few land animals available in the Bahamas for hunting: hutias ( Taino utia ), rock iquanas, small lizards, land crabs and birds.

The Caribbean hermit crab, Coenobita clypeatus, also known as the soldier crab, the West Atlantic crab, the tree crab, and the purple pincher ( due to the distinctive purple claw ), is a species of land hermit crab native to the west Atlantic, Bahamas, Belize, southern Florida, Venezuela, the Virgin Islands, and the West Indies.

; 1776, March: Nicholas ' Marines land on New Providence Island, Bahamas.

Lat / Longs determined via Satellite of land masses ( ports of entry specifically ) can be off by as much as 90ft in the Bahamas, Caribbean and Cuba.

While passing through the Bahamas on September 8, the Ward Line steamer, Corydon, struck land and later sank during the storm.

It traveled westward towards the Bahamas, but swerved northeast and out to sea, threatening no land.

The storm recurved, never threatening any major land masses while moving well north of the Caribbean islands and well east of the Bahamas.

And then there is St. Louis county, where the Democratic leadership has shown little appreciation of the need for sound zoning, of the important relationship between proper land use and economic growth.

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.

In addition, land has been purchased to permit doubling the size of the plant in the future.

Before the dust has settled or the blood congealed, editorials, speeches, and civil-rights commissions are loud in the land, demanding to know what happened.

His horn has blown loud and clear across the land for more years than he cares to remember.

By this time the caecilian has constructed a burrow and is living on land.

As such, it has to be distinguished from agricultural land, which, according to Food and Agriculture Organization's ( FAO ) definition, additionally includes land under permanent crops as well as permanent pastures.

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

It has no permanently dry land area, although large parts of the reef become exposed during low tide.

Transport in Antarctica has transformed from explorers crossing the isolated remote area of Antarctica by foot to a more open area due to human technologies enabling more convenient and faster transport, predominantly by air and water, as well as land.

A traditional food plant in Africa, amaranth has the potential to improve nutrition, boost food security, foster rural development and support sustainable land care.

Development in Canberra has been closely regulated by government, both through the town planning process, but also through the use of crown lease terms that have tightly limited the use of parcels of land.

In the past several decades, Ann Arbor has grappled with the effects of sharply rising land values, gentrification, and urban sprawl stretching into outlying countryside.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 0. 89 %) is water.

There are three reasons for this population loss: firstly, since the completion of Telli ( a large apartment complex ), the city has not had any more considerable land developments.

The island has a land area of.

One land, however, has eclipsed all others in the Aegean by the wealth of its remains of all the prehistoric ages — Crete ; and so much so that, for the present, we must regard it as the fountainhead of Aegean civilization, and probably for long its political and social centre.

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.

Southeast Alaska has a land area of ( sq ), comprising six entire boroughs and three census areas, in addition to the portion of the Yakutat Borough lying east of 141 ° West longitude.

Although it has only 6. 14 percent of Alaska's land area, it is larger than the state of Maine, and almost as large as the state of Indiana.

According to the 2010 census, the city has a total area of, all land.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of, all of it land.

Botswana has land boundaries of combined length, of which the constituent boundaries are shared with Namibia, for ; South Africa ; Zimbabwe, and Zambia, less than.