Use land in a sentence
Sentences starting with land
- Land of--why, you see--you see--why, great Scott, can't you understand a little thing like that? [5]
- Land alive, go on, Tom! [5]
- Land of Goshen, it's this night week! [5]
- Land we are glad to see those debts diminishing. [5]
- Land all about for hours. [5]
Sentences ending with land
- Instantly the fickle youth's dreams forsook the magic eye-water and flew back to the Tennessee Land. [5]
- These were adventurous young gentlemen of family, some of them lawyers and some of them late officers in the Continental army who had been rewarded with grants of land. [9]
- How long have you been in the spirit land? [5]
- I will see you again at court if not before--when and where we will settle the question whether you or the widow shall have the land. [7]
- I hope to write from the Sea of Tiberius, Damascus, Jerusalem, Joppa, and possibly other points in the Holy Land. [5]
- Let him who would sneer at my emotion close this volume here, for he will find little to his taste in my journeyings through Holy Land. [5]
- An elderly woman would not have sprung so nimbly into the skiff that was to convey her to the land. [10]
- Travelling north, you would have come to the Turnagain River; west, to the Frying Pan Mountains; south, to a goodly land. [11]
- Now if somebody would come along and offer $3,000--Uh, if somebody only would come along and offer $3,000 for that Tennessee Land. [5]
- I saw it would be no easy task to fetch our craft to the land. [11]
Short sentences using land
- Land, I believe you! [5]
- The land belonged to them. [5]
- Mrs. Eddy gave the land. [5]
- Land, don't it sound great! [5]
- Land, what a sight! [5]
- Is the land richer? [7]
- Adieu, dear land, Provence, adieu. [11]
- The land court--curse of Kentucky! [9]
- But we could not land. [5]
- This land was Louisiana. [9]
Sentences containing land two or more times
- The canal for which he was taxed gave his feddan of land no water, for the Pasha, the friend of the Government, took all the water for his own land. [11]
- How Mr. Jason was to be rewarded by the land company's left-hand, unknown, to the land company's right hand, became a problem worthy of a genius. [9]
- The nullification battle was set; the currency conflict still raged; it was a time of inflation and land speculation; the West, every day more explored and opened, was the land of promise for capital and energy. [4]
- They belonged not to the life moving round her, but were shining in a land of their own, a land of promise. [11]
- They were going to a foreign land to fight, many of them to die, not in one of those adventurous campaigns of times gone by, but in the wet trenches or the hideous No Man's Land between. [9]
- How, Mr. Chairman, the line that once divided your land from mine can still be the boundary between us after I have sold my land to you is to me beyond all comprehension. [7]
- I throw in the land, because it would otherwise have stood idle: the thing generally raised on city land is taxes. [4]
- The triumph of the conqueror's fame is sounding from hill to hill, from sea to sea, and from land to land, and calling millions to his standard at a blast. [7]
- Returning to their ships and finding the water shallow, they rowed over to a point of land, where they found from six to twelve fathoms of water, which put them in good comfort, therefore they named that part of the land Cape Comfort. [4]
- It is the same Tennessee land that had "millions in it" for Colonel Sellers--the land that would become, as Orion Clemens long afterward phrased it, "the worry of three generations. [5]
More example sentences with the word land in them
- The land is yours, and to-morrow my attorney shall give you a deed of it. [9]
- Land, the room's yours to do what you please with! [5]
- Had not the Young Doctor said that Burlingame had written to lawyers in the old land to get information concerning him? [11]
- Guida, ma couzaine, you'll stay here, in the land of your birth. [11]
- Didn't Henry tell you to land here? [5]
- Let me tell you there's no better blood in the land than the Austen blood. [9]
- It is probable you left some obscure comrade at a tavern, or in the farms, with right mother-wit, and equality to life, when you crossed sea and land to play bo-peep with celebrated scribes. [6]
- But I thank you for the compliment in a land where compliments are few. [11]
- And then--and then you can hear a wild laugh come out of the land, come up from the sea, come down from the sky--all waiting, waiting for something! [11]
- One would know you came from a land where there are no gentlemen. [5]
- McDowell can reach you by land sooner than he could get aboard of boats, if the boats were ready at Fredericksburg, unless his march shall be resisted, in which case the force resisting him will certainly not be confronting you at Richmond. [7]
- And listen-- before you and I are two months older, the French navy will be in the harbours of Ireland, and the French army will land here. [11]
- He rode, as ye know, through peril to Pango Dooni, bearing the call for help, and he hath helped to save the whole land from the Red Plague. [11]
- Presently, however, the yacht slid out from the infolding land into an open sea that stretched before them to a silver-lined horizon. [9]
- I have been wrought and unsettled in mind by apprehensions, and that is a thing that is not helpable when one is in a strange land and sees his resources melt down to a two months' supply and can't see any sure daylight beyond. [5]
- It is the wretchedest, princeliest land on earth. [5]
- Being vigilant, one would have seen, however, that he lived in some land of memory or anticipation, beyond his life of daily toil and usual dealing. [11]
- Some other Moses would have had to lead us to our Jordan, to the sight of our promised land of liberty. [7]
- Without that it would be unable to develop its mines, build its roads, work to advantage and without great waste its fruitful land, establish manufactures or enter upon a prosperous industrial career. [5]
- It would be worth a year of battles to abolish this delusion, though the great sponge of war that wiped it out were moistened with the best blood of the land. [6]
- It was well worked in London; and bishops, statesmen, and all ports of people made a rush for the land company's shares. [5]
- As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
- These are the words the Irishman sang: "She was a queen, she stood up there before me, My blood went roarin' when she touched my hand; She kissed me on the lips, and then she swore me To die for her--and happy was the land. [11]
- Looking over this wonderful prospect of the St. Lawrence, he had an insistent feeling that he ought to remain in the land where he was born, and give of whatever he was capable to its life. [11]
- He is wholly without hope, and is only thinking of throwing away everything and flying to some foreign land. [5]
- On this day, with the glimmer of land in the far distance, the charges of all the guns were renewed. [11]
- In a region with scarcely any level land or intervale, farmers are at a disadvantage. [4]
- She said it with a voice also charged with fear; for she was by nature a landfarer, not a sea-farer, though on the rivers of Spain she had lived almost as much as on land, and she was a good swimmer. [11]
- The Emperor Charles wished to place her in safe quarters up here, while he himself had taken lodgings in the modest house of a Schwaiger--a small farmer who tilled his own garden and land in the valley below. [10]
- He did not wish to be understood as concurring in any intimation that they would refuse to receive such an appropriation of alternate sections of land because a condition enhancing the price of the reserved sections should be attached thereto. [7]
- Had he been wise in deciding before he had taught a glimpse of the accomplished Douglas, whose name end fame filled the land? [9]
- Good land, I'm willing to let bygones be bygones, I'm sure. [5]
- My pious son will not let the gallows become empty in this land of heretical exaltation. [10]
- Consider that Philometor will not confirm the donation of the land unless he quits the temple deeply penetrated by the greatness of our god. [10]
- England, France, Turkey, will land an army of occupation. [11]
- For the sleeper whose dream here on earth he, Charles, had beautified in so many ways, a happy waking had long since followed in the land for which she had never ceased to yearn. [10]
- The young captain, who on board ship was so bashful and retiring, as soon as he was on land altered his time. [10]
- And Mr. King, who listened attentively, finally joined in with the questioners, and said, "Captain, what is the average price of land down in this part of Florida by the--gallon? [4]
- So both those who knew and those who did not know deceived themselves, and pushed on to Smolensk as to a promised land. [2]
- The young man who has not heard the clarion-voices of honor and of duty now sounding throughout the land, will heed no word of mine. [3]
- Formerly the hosts who came from the east, and fell on our land like swarms of locusts, robbing and destroying it, were spoken of as 'a curse' and a 'pest. [10]
- In a little while the road carried us to open, grassy land. [5]
- Presently land appeared, which they took to be the continent, and coasted along to the northward a hundred and thirty miles before finding a harbor. [4]
- Like my grapes which the spies bore out of the Promised Land, I have got every thing in Palestine on too large a scale. [5]
- The narrow inlets which I have mentioned go wandering out into the land everywhere and hiding themselves in it, and pleasure-launches are always exploring them with picnic parties on board. [5]
- My uncle's Oregon-echo, which he called the Great Pitt Echo, was a twenty-two carat gem, and cost two hundred and sixteen thousand dollars--they threw the land in, for it was four hundred miles from a settlement. [5]
- In a land where all were bon- vivants, where the lowest tradesmen drank wine after dinner, and rum, brandy and water, or sangaree in the forenoon, a somewhat lightsome view of table-virtues might have been expected of the young unmarried planter. [11]
- I hear thee when thou callest to me, and I kneel outside the door, for thou art wise, and thou speakest to me; but thee as thou art in a far land I shall see no more. [11]
- There were days when no wind stirred anywhere, and the gorgeous sun made the little city and all the land round about a pretty silver kingdom, where Oberon and his courtiers might have danced and been glad. [11]
- Once or twice when a wild storm was on I could not land at Cap Martin, and was carried out to sea and over to France. [11]
- We knew then what the poet meant when he sang of: "--thy cornfields green, and sunny vines, O pleasant land of France! [5]
- Only half conscious what she was doing, she left the boat; but her slender foot had scarcely touched the land when a tall figure emerged from the thicket near the shore and approached her through the darkness. [10]
- I realized, then, what a creepy, dull, inanimate horror this land had been to me all these years, and how I had been in such a stifled condition of mind as to have grown used to it almost beyond the power to notice it. [5]
- Thousands of birds were roosting there, but they were all asleep; a "dark ness that might be felt" brooded over the silent land scape. [10]
- The cavalry singers were passing close by: Ah lost, quite lost... is my head so keen, Living in a foreign land. [2]
- By nightfall we were far out at sea, with no land in sight. [5]
- The forest pools were cracked and dry, the Spanish moss was a haggard gray, and under the sun was the haze which covered the land like a saffron mantle. [9]
- Everywhere festive guns were booming, bells pealing, the churches ringing with thanksgivings, and jubilant multitudes thronging the thoroughfares, when suddenly the news flashed over the land that Abraham Lincoln had been murdered. [7]
- On land there were a thousand miles of open country, with woods and houses, caves and cliffs, to which men could flee for hiding; and the danger of rebellion was less dominant. [11]
- With the dwelling-house went the possession of three acres of land. [4]
- If thou thinkest well of it, leave this sick land for that new one. [11]
- My forefathers, as well as yours, were noble before a Spaniard ever entered the land. [10]
- I was warmly welcomed by old friends and by the Governor and his family, and I soon set up an establishment of my own in Williamsburg, joining with a merchant there in business, while my land was worked by a neighbouring planter. [11]
- And then a weird apparition marched forth at the head of the procession--a pirate, I thought, if ever a pirate dwelt upon land. [5]
- This festival: the wedding of the Bride of the Nile to her mighty and unresting spouse, on whom the weal or woe of the land depended, was to be as a flowery oasis in the waste of dearth and desolation. [10]
- The next morning we started back to the old camp, but while out a long way from shore, so great a storm came up that we dared not try to land. [5]
- No sooner had we made fast than we were boarded by a shabby customs officer who, when he had seen our passports, bowed politely and invited us to land. [9]
- One by one we all had yielded to ceaseless intrigue and common distrust of each other, until no honest man was left; till all were intent to save their lives by holding power; for in this land to lose power is to lose life. [11]
- In fact, the water was already pouring over the land, and the messengers had seen the vessels appointed to bring relief. [10]
- Colonel Clark stood watching from the bank above, and it was he who pulled me, bedraggled, to dry land. [9]
- But the king watches over the laws, and guides the destiny cf this land, the king must blame you, nay perhaps punish you. [10]
- It was my watch till midnight, and then it was Jim's; but Tom stayed up, because he said ship captains done that when they was making the land, and didn't stand no regular watch. [5]
- How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, and friends, and all who cared for me, thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. [5]
- What a contrast was this rich country, warm with color and suggestive of abundance, to the pale and scrimped coast land of Maine denuded of its trees! [4]
- Strange that she was so young still, and that was so long past--when he stood on a mountain, and, clambering a high wall of rock, looked over into a happy No-man's Land. [11]
- In truth, she was seeing things millions of miles away; she was seeing a Promised Land. [11]
- Here the land was rugged and bold, while farther on it became gentle and spacious, and was flecked or striped with farms on which low, white houses with dormer-windows and big stoops flashed to the passer-by the message of the pioneer, "It is mine. [11]
- Its slimy bottom was quite a ghastly spectacle, an ugly gash in the land that nothing could heal but the friendly returning tide. [4]
- My poor father was of course condemned and thrown into prison, where he was beginning to doubt the justice of the gods, when for his sake the greatest wonder happened, ever seen in this land of wonders since first the Greeks ruled in Alexandria. [10]
- This noble desire was not usually accompanied by artistic discrimination, and the land is filled with monuments and statues which express the gratitude of the people. [4]
- The South Sea was not discovered, no gold had turned up, there were no valuable products from the new land, and the promoters received no profits on their ventures. [4]
- Take away what was his, by every holy right, because it was all according to the law of the land and of the Holy Gospel, and what was left? [11]
- But the sea was his ally, and she turned her face appealingly toward the receding land. [9]
- I knew he was from the Land of the Free by a phrase I heard him use in the cars: he said, "I'll bet a dollar. [4]
- No pulpit eloquence was ever so moving and so beautiful as this outcast's picture of the first Mormon pilgrimage across the plains, struggling sorrowfully onward to the land of its banishment and marking its desolate way with graves and watering it with tears. [5]
- To Guida, who was both of the sea and of the land, fearless as to either, it was neither terrible nor desolate to be alone with the storm. [11]
- At first it was all beautiful and grand, and it seemed noble to search for those others who had gone into that land and never come back. [11]
- When the colony was about eighteen or twenty years old it was discovered that the land was specially fitted for the wool-culture. [5]
- Here in truth was a new world, a land of peaceful customs, green and moist. [9]
- Once more there was a full audience on deck to listen to the sailors' chorus as they got the anchor up, and to wave an adieu to the land as we sped away from Naples. [5]
- This heraldry of war was all unnatural in the golden weather and sweet-smelling land. [11]
- Immediately after the war of 1812, tourists began to come to America, from England; scattering ones at first, then a sort of procession of them--a procession which kept up its plodding, patient march through the land during many, many years. [5]
- Oh, we have wandered far, my dear, and we have loved apace; A little hut we built upon the sand, The sun without to lighten it, within, your golden face,-- O happy dream, O happy No Man's Land! [11]
- He had the Wall street slang at his tongue's end; he always talked like a capitalist, and entered with enthusiasm into all the land and railway schemes with which the air was thick. [5]
- As though in very truth he saw with his eyes, he stopped short not far from the point where the bridge joined the land, and stood still, listening. [11]
- He was, indeed, very reluctant to sell any part of the land at any price; and indeed--this reluctance was justifiable when one considers how constantly and how greatly the property is rising in value. [5]
- The land is very nourishing, the water is thoroughly wholesome. [5]
- Mr. Stoker was very fond of this border land. [6]
- None save a very few conspirators knew how great a part it played in the plan to break the government of Ireland and to ruin England's position in the land. [11]
- That soul of vanity which wraps about the real soul of every woman fell down at last before the highest office in the land, and the gifted bearer of the office. [11]
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