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.

With the Confederates having confiscated his land, his slaves taken away, and his home made into a military hospital, Johnson made his final comments in the Senate: " I am a Democrat now, I have been one all my life ; I expect to live and die one, and the corner-stone of my Democracy rests upon the enduring basis of the Union.

In result, the fortification walls of Thasos were torn down, their land and naval ships were confiscated by Athens.

In 391, Theodosius I decreed that any land that had been confiscated from the church by Roman authorities be returned.

A majority of the forty-odd Israeli settlements surrounding Bethlehem is built on land confiscated from Christian, not Muslim, Palestinians.

Liechtenstein claims restitution for ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in the Czech Republic confiscated from its princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Czech Republic ; the Czech Republic insists that the power to claim restitution does not go back before February 1948, when the Communists seized power ; Liechtenstein did not diplomatically recognize the Czech Republic until 2009, and the Czech Republic in turn did not diplomatically recognize Liechtenstein.

Individual Sudeten German claims for restitution of property confiscated in connection with their expulsion after World War II ; agreement with Slovakia signed 24 November 1998 resolves issues of redistribution of former Czechoslovak federal land.

It confiscated land from beys and large landowners, giving it without compensation to peasants.

The government also pledged to return to peasants land that had been confiscated by the Honduran military in 1983.

Severus soon purged Albinus ' sympathisers and perhaps confiscated large tracts of land in Britain as punishment.

Louis VI frequently summoned his vassals to the court, and those who did not show up often had their land possessions confiscated and military campaigns mounted against them.

All Nama and Herero cattle and land were confiscated from the very diminished population, with remaining Nama and Herero assuming a subordinate position.

In addition to taxes, officials who had fallen into disrepute were likely to have their land and property confiscated by the Sultan.

Liechtenstein claims restitution for 1, 600 km² ( which is ten times the size of Liechtenstein ) of land in Slovakia confiscated from its ' princely family in 1918 by the then newly established state of Czechoslovakia, the predecessor of the Slovak Republic.

Private property would continue to be allowed, but all land belonging to the Somozas was confiscated.

** While Richard II is away on a military campaign in Ireland, Henry Bolingbroke, with exiled former Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Arundel as an advisor, returns to England and begins a military campaign to reclaim his confiscated land.

A network of bypass roads for use of Israeli citizens only was built around Ramallah, and land was confiscated for settlements.

As the Yorkists tightened their hold over England, Edward rewarded his supporters, including his chief adviser Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, elevating them to higher titles and awarding them land confiscated from their defeated foes.

During the period of war, rent collection, which hovered at around 50 – 70 %, was impossible in some parts of the country, or the Việt Minh had compelled landlords to seek safety in the city and confiscated their land, distributing it to the peasants.

The Act, without deference to a person's color, authorized the Bureau to lease confiscated land for a period of three years and to sell it in portions of up to 40 acres per buyer.

The Song government confiscated portions of land owned by the landed gentry in order to raise revenue for these projects, an act which caused dissension and loss of loyalty amongst leading members of Song society but did not stop the Song's defensive preparations.

During the land crisis in Zimbabwe, where the government by force confiscated white farmers ' land using violent methods, fears arose among the white minority and the western world that the same method would be used in Namibia.

In an effort to reward conversion, the colonial government confiscated traditionally Tutsi land and reassigned it to Hutu tribes, igniting a conflict that has lasted into the 21st century.

In the 1970s, over 30, 000 French colons left Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime as the Pol Pot government confiscated their farms and land properties.

Previous agrarian law specified that no citizen would be allowed to possess more than 500 jugera ( that is, approximately 125 hectares ) of the ager publica and any land that they occupied above this limit would be confiscated by the state.