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 Communist Party subsequently loosened governmental control over citizens ' personal lives and the communes were disbanded with many peasants receiving multiple land leases, which greatly increased incentives and agricultural production.

It was traditional to value land at ten times its annual yield, and most of the rebels were subsequently fined at half of this amount: five times the annual yield of their lands.

A believer in reincarnation, Gardner came to believe that he had lived on the island once before, in a previous life, subsequently buying a plot of land in Famagusta, planning to build a house on it, although this never came about.

The succession of militarily distinguished governors who were subsequently appointed suggests that enemies of Rome were posing a difficult challenge, and Lucius Alfenus Senecio's report to Rome in 207 describes barbarians " rebelling, over-running the land, taking loot and creating destruction ".

In 1991, the Persian Gulf again was the background for what was called the " Persian Gulf War " or the " Gulf War ", despite the fact that this conflict was primarily a land conflict, when Iraq invaded Kuwait and was subsequently pushed back.

War and the imposition of a European economic and legal system led to most of New Zealand's land passing from Māori to Pākehā ( European ) ownership, and most Māori subsequently became impoverished.

Control of the land was subsequently transferred to Mexico upon independence from Spain, and then to the United States as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.

At the end of the last Ice Age, the Bristol Channel was dry land but subsequently the sea level rose, resulting in major coastal changes.

Ownership of 1, 051. 44 acres ( for all practical intents being the exact area of land occupied by the original mission buildings, cemeteries, and gardens ) was subsequently conveyed to the Church, along with the Cañada de los Pinos ( or College Rancho ) in Santa Barbara County comprising, and La Laguna in San Luis Obispo County, consisting of.

Ironically, the main beneficiaries were perhaps the owners of biens nationaux, numbering around one million, as their property had been guaranteed as one of the conditions for the act's passing, which subsequently led to a rise in the value of their land.

This piece of land was subsequently adorned with plane and olive plantations, and was called Academia from its original owner.

The artillery pieces inflicted heavy damage on the German heavy cruiser Blücher, which was subsequently sunk by torpedoes fired from Oscarsborg's land based torpedo battery.

The land was subsequently called Ogygia in his honor but later known as Mount Athos.

After Porfirio Díaz rose to power in 1876, the Mexican social and economic system was essentially a feudal system, with large estates ( haciendas ) controlling much of the land and squeezing out the independent communities of the people who were subsequently forced into debt slavery ( peonaje ) on the haciendas.

The land was subsequently developed as small farms.

During his explorations of the land that would become Bullitt County, he came upon an unusually large salt lick subsequently named after him: Bullitt's Lick.

To prove his prowess, Ngaru conquered the monsters of the deep, descended to the underworld and returned to the land of the living where he subsequently defeated the sky fairies and Amai-te-rangi, a sky demon ( Craig 1989: 184, Gill 1876: 225-250 ).

The state legislature subsequently passed an act on December 10, 1807 that created four new counties from Baldwin County's 1806 borders and expanded Baldwin to the east with land from Hancock and Washington counties.

This specific ridge land habitat is particularly significant for Sydney as most similar habitat was left unprotected and was subsequently destroyed to make way for cheap development which has made many species only found ridges threatened with extinction due to extreme habitat clearance / fragmentation.

As the pines were cut and land subsequently cleared, cotton became a staple of the local economy, until cotton was devastated by the Boll weevil in the early 1900s.

The campus was part of an original Spanish grant ( the old ranch grew orange and avocado trees ) and the land was subsequently legalized by Abraham Lincoln.

The Mexican government granted a large expanse of land which included the area in which Yuba City is situated to John Sutter, the same John Sutter upon whose land gold was subsequently discovered in 1848.

As a result of the judgment, Richard Butler turned over the compound to the Keenans, who then sold the property to a philanthropist, who subsequently donated it to North Idaho College, which designated the land as a " peace park.

The history of the tract of land where what is now Maeystown is situated, began sometime after 1782, when a soldier of the American Revolution, one James McRoberts, staked a claim of 100 acres ( Survey 704 ; Claim 316 ), he subsequently left the Illinois Territory for Tennessee, where he married Mary Fletcher-Harris, and returned in 1797, adding another to his holdings.