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.

He then spoke to the senators, criticising Servius: for being a slave born of a slave ; for failing to be elected by the Senate and the people during an interregnum, as had been the tradition for the election of kings of Rome ; for being gifted the throne by a woman ; for favouring the lower classes of Rome over the wealthy and for taking the land of the upper classes for distribution to the poor ; and for instituting the census so that the wealth of the upper classes might be exposed in order to excite popular envy.

How to understand the will of deities and how to behave had been " revealed " to the Etruscans by two " initiators ", Tages, a childlike figure born from tilled land and immediately gifted with prescience, and Vegoia, a female figure.

Partly this was land that had always belonged to the Crown, while other parts were sold or donated like the more than 10 % of the island ( located in the northern bush area, with some of the largest remaining kauri forests ) that was gifted to the Crown by farmer Max Burrill in 1984.

In 2011 Paul Newman's estate gifted land to Westport to be managed by the Aspetuck Land Trust.

The Etruscans believed their religion had been revealed to them by seers, the two main ones being Tages, a childlike figure born from tilled land who was immediately gifted with prescience, and Vegoia, a female figure.

Their choice was fifty acres, 37 and one half of which were owned by Joseph Blythe and 12 and one half owned by Peter Ruff, both of whom gifted the land.

The Deincourt family had owned the land here since the 1170s and on the marriage of Elizabeth Deincourt to Sir William de Stirkeland in 1239, the estate passed into the hands of what became the Strickland family, who owned it until it was gifted to the National Trust in 1950.

From time to time Trounson gifted additional land, until what is known as Trounson Park comprised a total of 4 km².

After vacating Number 10 in 1936, these properties were razed and subsequently all the land was gifted to his wife's Museum of Modern Art.

There has been a settlement at Northallerton since Roman times, however its growth in importance began in the 11th century when King William II gifted land to the Bishop of Durham.

It was originally a Victorian manor house and estate stretching along the river, gifted by the architect Tom Scott Sutherland in 1956, with the addition of land to the east purchased from Aberdeen City Council in the 1990s.

The land for the Town Hall and the land which later came to form Dunbeth Park was gifted to the town by the Bairds.

Before her death in June 1899 Lady Shelley had gifted four acres of land which were laid out to form Boscombe Cliff Gardens.

In 2012 the school was alleged to have been gifted to the Bournemouth 2026 Partnership and plans to demolish buildings on the land were thwarted when members from the Occupy Movement took direct action in order to delay bulldozers.

They were granted personal rights, including the right to inherit and govern land and estates inherited from ancestors or gifted by the Grand Duke.

Providence Plantation was an American colony of English settlers founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a theologian, independent preacher, and linguist on land gifted by the Narragansett sachem, Canonicus.

Four years later de Salis gifted to Nina alone, 97 hectares of land.

The land that Amritsar is built upon is believed to be a jagir ( estates gifted to individuals under the Mughal system which included one or more villages and often a portion of the crops produced on the land ) given as a gift by the Emperor Akbar, who was impressed by the practice, after sharing a meal in the Guru's communal kitchen, seated on the floor among commoners.

Combined with the of Caribbean land the Costa Rican government gifted him and the success of the banana sales, Keith eventually founded and grew the enormously lucrative United Fruit Company. Calypso dancers from Puerto Limón performing in Bribrí, Talamanca

In 1797, when the army was looking to establish a new and permanent base, Anderson gifted them the land as an inducement to locate in Fermoy.

" There are more than 5000 Sindhi Muslims living in the 6 villages of mhow tehsil they came here late before400 years ago most of them are farmers and jagirdars this community is one of the oldest community living in the area they are living long before the Mhow was originated they came from sindh ( mohenjodaro ) late before 400 years they were warriors who saved jodpur kingdom from attackers and were gifted with thousands acres land in mhow area which comprise almost 30 % of mhow tehsil. they live in chopati, banjari, karondia, richabardi, kesarbardi ,& dada. the people have even participated in 1857 war against Britishers in mhow.

The Māori owned land was gifted by the Ngāti Maru rangatira Rapana Maunganoa.