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.

In 1167, Absalon was granted the land around the city of " Havn " (), and built there a castle in the coastal defense against the Wends.

* The surface rights to the patented land were granted to the village corporations and the subsurface right to the land were granted to the regional corporation, creating a " split estate "

For his services to the King of Spain, he was granted a vast stretch of land on the east shore of San Francisco Bay ( the contra costa, " opposite shore ") for a ranch, including that portion that now comprises the City of Berkeley.

European ancestors also include Spanish and Italian seamen who were granted land by the Portuguese Empire, followed by Portuguese settlers, exiles, and Portuguese Jews who were victims of the Inquisition.

The Tang land policy – the " Equal-field system " – claimed all lands as imperially owned, and were granted evenly to people according to the size of the households.

In 563 he was granted land on the island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, which became the centre of his evangelising mission to the Picts.

3 of the 1862 Act granted the railroads of public land for every mile laid, except where railroads ran through cities and crossed rivers.

The notable exception to this was when land claims by the Connecticut-based owners of the Susquehanna Company, who had been granted titles to land claimed by Connecticut in the Wyoming Valley, in an area that is now Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.

A lord was in broad terms a noble who held land, a vassal was a person who was granted possession of the land by the lord, and the land was known as a fief.

Professions such as architecture, engineering, geology, and land surveying require varying lengths of apprenticeships before one can be granted a ' professional ' certification.

The Gracchi aimed to address these problems by reclaiming lands from the patricians that could then be granted to soldiers ; by restoring land to displaced peasants ; by providing subsidized grain for the needy and by having the Republic pay for the clothing of its poorest soldiers.

Through land subsidies granted to the railroads, they soon came to control vast tracts of the best land along the Caribbean coast.

Led by Rollo, some Vikings had settled in Normandy and were granted the land, first as counts and then as dukes, by King Charles the Simple, in order to protect the land from other raiders.

" in reference to his rejection of ownership rights to land being granted to a person who is not using that land.

To protect their interests, the settlers banned the growing of coffee, introduced a hut tax, and the landless were granted less and less land in exchange for their labour.

In 1764, Colonial Governor Benning Wentworth granted to a group of approximately 70 land investors from Connecticut.

Johnson's grandfather William was poverty stricken, and was unable to educate his son Jacob or pass on any land to him.

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 " patriarchal history " recounts the events of the major patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to whom God reveals himself and to whom the promise of descendants and land is made, while the story of Joseph serves to take the Israelites into Egypt in preparation for the next book, Exodus.

After Jacob died there 17 years later, Joseph carried Jacob's remains to the land of Canaan, where he gave them stately burial in the same Cave of Machpelah as were buried Abraham, Sarah, Isaac, Rebekah and Jacob's wife, Leah ().

As Jacob neared the land of Canaan, he sent messengers ahead to his brother Esau.

According to Rashi, the being was the guardian angel of Esau himself, sent to destroy Jacob before he could return to the land of Canaan.

Jacob then arrived in Shechem, where he bought a parcel of land, now identified as Joseph's Tomb.

Jacob condemned this act, saying " You have brought trouble on me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people living in this land.

The house of Jacob dwelt in Hebron, in the land of Canaan.

In contrast to Abraham — who illuminates the world with knowledge of God and earns the respect of the inhabitants of the land of Canaan — and Isaac — who continues his father's teachings and also lives in relative harmony with his neighbors — Jacob experiences many personal struggles both in the land and out of it-including the hatred of his brother, Esau ; the deception of his father-in-law, Laban ; the rape of his daughter, Dinah ; the death of his favorite wife, Rachel ; and the sale of his son, Joseph.

Therefore, at Rebekah's urging, Jacob flees to a distant land to work for a relative, Laban ().

Jacob having fled for his life, leaves behind the wealth of Isaac's flocks and land and tents in Esau's hands.

God gives to the patriarchs a promise of the land of Canaan, but at the end of Genesis the sons of Jacob end up leaving Canaan for Egypt due to a regional famine.

When Abel Tasman reached New Zealand in 1642, he named it Staten Landt, believing it to be part of the land Jacob Le Maire had discovered in 1616 off the coast of Argentina.

The Jewish historian Josephus maintains that the Hyksos were in fact the children of Jacob who joined his son Joseph in Egypt to escape a famine in the land of Canaan.

Greene County is rooted in the " Nolichucky settlement ," which was established by pioneer Jacob Brown on land leased from the Cherokee in the early 1770s.

* Nolde Forest Environmental Education Center is south of Reading on land once owned by Jacob Nolde, a prominent Reading businessman and Pennsylvania environmentalist.

The historian Josephus maintains that the Hyksos were in fact the children of Jacob who joined his son Joseph to escape the famine in the land of Canaan.

Major Jacob Forney Dailey of North Carolina came to Alabama in 1848 and bought land in present-day Piedmont.

Pio Pico built a hacienda in Whittier on the San Gabriel River, which today is known as Pio Pico State Historic Park Following the Mexican-American war, German immigrant Jacob F. Gerkens paid $ 234 to the U. S. government to acquire of land under the Homestead Act and built a cabin known today as the Jonathan Bailey House.

The first known settlement of Jacob City was by a white man named Jacob Jones who housed the first blacks on his land and property, that is where Jacob City got its name, as they would tell their friends " lets go to Jacob's.

The community and lake was built by land developer James Jacob Rupel, who was active in the Greater Dayton area and Indiana for over 50 years and the former owner of Centre City Building and the Carillon House in Downtown Dayton.