Use lands in a sentence
Sentences starting with lands
- Lands and thrones may perish, plague and devastation walk abroad with death, misery and beggary crawl naked to the doorway, and crime cower in the hedges; but to the egregious egotism of young love there are only two identities bulking in the crowded universe. [11]
- Lands their forebears had won by lance and sword, they were squandering away as fast as ever they could. [9]
- Lands have been alienated from me--Nahoum. [11]
Sentences ending with lands
- Eyes demure, do you ever yearn, Bird-wise to summer lands? [11]
- It was she who brought imagination to bear on my pastimes, and many a time has she borne my fancy far enough from the Pegnitz, over seas and rivers to groves of palm and golden fairy lands. [10]
- As the night went on, however, a feeling began to stir which it is not good to rouse in frontier lands. [11]
- Shall I exclaim upon thy snow-white hands, Challenge the world to show a gentler mien, Call down the seraphs to attest, the sheen Upon thy brow is borrowed from their lands? [11]
- It was a twenty-mile drive, and the last eight miles wound down the boiling Washita, still high with the melting snows of the pine lands. [9]
- They were set to old airs--lullabies, chansons, barcarolles, serenades, taken out of the folk-lore of many lands. [11]
- My uncle talked to me over seas and lands. [11]
- But it appears to me as if something more nearly concerning you than this were wrong, for I never knew you anxious about money and lands. [10]
- On his return to Castle Schorlin he found many changes; the old knight had been called away from earth a few days before his son's death, and Heinz Schorlin, his present master, had fallen heir to castle and lands. [10]
- He was opposed to a reduction of the price of public lands. [7]
Short sentences using lands
- Other folks' lands, too. [9]
- Few lands are so blest. [5]
Sentences containing lands two or more times
- She was heiress to the Chateau de St. Gre with its wide lands, to the chateau and lands of the Cote Rouge in Normandy, to the hotel St. Gre in Paris. [9]
- He alluded to the statement that the General Government was interested in these internal improvements being made, inasmuch as they increased the value of the lands that were unsold, and they enabled the government to sell the lands which could not be sold without them. [7]
- In regard to the Homestead law, I have to say that, in so far as the government lands can be disposed of, I am in favor of cutting up the wild lands into parcels, so that every poor man may have a home. [7]
- Knonohikis (Superintendents) of the Crown Lands, Konohikis of the Private Lands of His Majesty Konohikis of the Private Lands of Her late Royal Highness. [5]
- And when the passenger lands on our side he lands on the American side of the river, not in the provinces. [5]
- There was still another proposition touching this matter; that was, that persons entitled to bounty lands should by law be entitled to locate these lands in parcels, and not be required to locate them in one body, as was provided by the existing law. [7]
More example sentences with the word lands in them
- And insomuch as you were even then serving the country faithfully and bravely, and had a clean and honourable record of service, the whole of the lands were given to you. [9]
- He had not yet made his fortune, but he had been successful in the game of buying and selling lands, and luck seemed to dog his path. [11]
- The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
- Chateaux and lands would be hers again, and she would go back again to that brilliant life among the great to which she was born, for which nature had fitted her. [9]
- And if the wine to lip she raise, With morsel of my bread; Then as we loved in ancient days, These lands of ours shall wed. [11]
- I think it will please the sorrowing woman, when she lands, to see your familiar face, which will remind her of happier days. [10]
- So originated the wide-spread custom of wearing spectacles in Germany; and as a custom once established in these old lands is imperishable, this one remains universal in the empire to this day. [5]
- There are some who say that those are happiest who keep at home and content themselves with reading about the lands of the imagination. [4]
- A contrast they were, these buckskin-clad pioneers, to the ill-assorted humanity they watched, absorbed in struggles for the very lands they had won. [9]
- And his lands were at once confiscated by the state. [9]
- Thus, Quedlinburg was well suited to arouse poetic feelings in young hearts, steep the soul with love for the beautiful, time-honoured region, and yet fill it with the desire to make distant lands its own. [10]
- How then are we to make anything out of these lands with this encumbrance on them? [7]
- Did not its waters lead, after long wanderings, to the great highway of the world, and open to her the gates of those cities from which she could take her departure unchallenged towards the lands of the morning or of the sunset? [6]
- I suppose I was the proudest stripling that ever traveled to see strange lands and wonderful people. [5]
- And then there was the dairy, with the fawn-coloured cows and calves; and the hillside pastures that ran down to the river, and the farm lands where the stubbled grain was yellowing. [9]
- The white man wants their lands, and all must go excepting such percentage of them as he will need to do his work for him upon terms to be determined by himself. [5]
- She was but twenty years ahead of us, and as our lands were equally salable--more so, as he maintained--we should have no more twenty years from now than she has at present. [7]
- Who shall gainsay Turkey if she chooses to bring an army here and recover control, remove thy family from Egypt, and seize upon its lands and goods? [11]
- I refer you to the report of the Secretary of the Interior, which is herewith laid before you, for useful and varied information in relation to the public lands, Indian affairs, patents, pensions, and other matters of public concern pertaining to his Department. [7]
- I now propose to show that it would produce a peculiar and permanent hardship upon the citizens of those States and Territories in which the public lands lie. [7]
- But I wished to see the harbour of the great commercial city, and the ships which ploughed the ocean to those distant lands for which I had often longed. [10]
- If he desired to own that, while in a state of senseless intoxication he had slandered modest maidens, and was ignorant of his actions when he staked his castle and lands against the gold lying before him, Heinz Schorlin, he might keep Tannenreuth. [10]
- It was painful to him to deprive any one of his lands and home. [10]
- They said little to each other-- in new lands hospitality has not need of speech. [11]
- There was a time, in the days of the sixth Edward of England, when the great landowners found it more profitable to consolidate the farms, seize the common lands, and acquire riches hitherto undreamed of. [9]
- When was the time to come (he asked) when the States in which the public lands were situated would compose a majority of the representation in Congress, or anything like it? [7]
- Once upon a time there was a country, more beautiful than all other lands and the castle of the Duke, its ruler, lay beside a lake that was bluer than the deepest indigo. [10]
- It was one thing to turn Eglington out of his lands and home and title; it was another thing to strike this beautiful being, whose smile had won him from the first, whose voice, had he but known, had saved his life. [11]
- The people in these old lands seem to make churches their specialty. [5]
- Ah, it is these little touches of nature that move one to tears in these far-off foreign lands. [5]
- If we take these lands (said he) it will not be without your consent. [7]
- Of the receipts there were derived from customs $69,059,642.40, from internal revenue $37,640,787.95, from direct tax $1,485,103.61, from lands $167,617.17, from miscellaneous sources $3,046,615.35, and from loans $776,682,361.57, making the aggregate $901,125,674.86. [7]
- Of the receipts there were derived from customs $102,316,152.99, from lands $588,333.29, from direct taxes $475,648.96, from internal revenue $109,741,134.10, from miscellaneous sources $47,511,448.10, and from loans applied to actual expenditures, including former balance, $623,443,929.13. [7]
- At certain seasons there was an almost continuous procession of herds of cattle and sheep passing to the Eastern markets, and of trains of big wagons wending their way to the inviting lands watered by the Tennessee. [4]
- From the monastery there came the voices of the monks: "O be joyful in the Lord, all ye lands. [11]
- When morning came the train was industriously toiling along through the fat lands of Lancaster, with its broad farms of corn and wheat, its mean houses of stone, its vast barns and granaries, built as if, for storing the riches of Heliogabalus. [5]
- He spoke of the smell of the sea, of the rollicking sailors who surged through the narrow street to embark on his Majesty's men-of-war, and of the King's white soldiers in ranks of four going to foreign lands. [9]
- I was with the Philadelphia Institute expedition in the Bad Lands under Professor Cope, hunting mastodon bones, and I overheard him say, his own self, that any plantigrade circumflex vertebrate bacterium that hadn't wings and was uncertain was a reptile. [5]
- Well, I left the paternal roof and wandered in other lands, and learned to think in the words of strange people. [6]
- For by industry the owner of the Kent lands would become rich. [9]
- Then he thanked the old man and asked, in subdued tones, whether all the Hebrews had willingly obeyed the summons to leave house and lands. [10]
- They travelled through the new lands in America from the fringe of the Arctic to Patagonia, but they raised no roof-tree; they tilled no acre, opened no market, set up no tabernacle: they had neither home nor country. [11]
- Those days beheld the most distant lands subjugated by Rameses, and heard Egypt celebrated in the whole world as its first and greatest nation. [10]
- The fame of the miracle went abroad into all lands. [5]
- It stands in the midst of broad lands, and the ground in front of it slopes down to Coniston Water, artificially widened here by a stone dam into a little lake. [9]
- The price of the lands may be raised, it was thought by some; by others, that it would be reduced. [7]
- He referred to the lands in the military tract. [7]
- The Secretary of the Interior reports as follows in regard to the public lands: "The public lands have ceased to be a source of revenue. [7]
- She had been the Emperor's toy, her voice had lost its melting melody, and yet he thought there was no woman more to be desired, far as his profession of recruiting had led him through all lands. [10]
- Still others said that the vision came but once, and then only to the sinless dying forlorn in distant lands and pitifully longing for some last dear reminder of their home. [5]
- It also appears that the sale of the public lands is largely on the increase. [7]
- The apprehension, therefore, that the public lands were in danger of being wrested from the General Government by the strength of the delegation in Congress from the new States, was utterly futile. [7]
- And you said that the lands beyond," and I pointed to the West as he had done, "should belong to it until the sun sets on the sea again. [9]
- The travellers' tales that he had heard from the captains of trading-vessels and ships of war who frequented his father's house had filled him with a love of danger and enterprise, and a desire to see distant lands and foreign peoples. [10]
- It was more than whispered that he sat too long over his wine, and that his desire for fiery liquid at other than meal-times was not in keeping with the English climate, but belonged to lands of drier weather and more absorptive air. [11]
- She sought to summon up in her mind the glimpses she had had of the wonderful lands from which they had come, to imagine their lives in that earlier environment. [9]
- He, who had studied and travelled and known life in many lands, had discerned in her, Janet Bumpus, some quality to make him desire her, acknowledge her as a comrade! [9]
- Then a fierce stretching of hands In gloom; and my feet, Treading tremulous over hard sands; A wind that wailed wearily slow, A plashing of waters below, A twilight on bleak lone lands, Spread out; and a sheet Of the moaning sea shallows aflow. [11]
- The thicket was some one hundred and fifty yards above, and on the flooded lands at a bend. [9]
- That State had sold nearly all her public lands. [7]
- On the English side he lands at a dock; on the dock a special train is waiting; in an hour and three-quarters he is in, London. [5]
- With this he shoves wooden disks the size of a saucer--he gives the disk a vigorous shove and sends it fifteen or twenty feet along the deck and lands it in one of the squares if he can. [5]
- We can then sell the rest of the stock on the prospect of the business of the road through an improved country, and also sell the lands at a big advance, on the strength of the road. [5]
- Some of the seeds or bulbs had been brought from foreign lands, but she was perfectly familiar with the virtues of all. [10]
- He could not see what motive of advantage to the new States could be subserved by merely keeping the public lands out of market, and preventing their settlement. [7]
- True, it is said that to live in foreign lands, far from the beloved home, darkens the existence; yet Pergamus, too, is Grecian soil, and there I see the two noblest of stars illumine your path with their pure light-art and love. [10]
- If he lands safe, and the English troops ain't roused, he'll take the town and hold the island easy enough. [11]
- At last he risked the lands, castle, and village which he possessed in Hersbruck as his wife's dower. [10]
- If he had really found her he would also have found, I am sure, that she was not new, that she exists in other lands in the same forms, and with the same frivolous heart and the same ways and impulses. [5]
- The bill for raising additional military force for limited time, etc., was reported from Committee on judiciary; similar bills had been reported from Committee on, Public Lands and Military Committee. [7]
- He heard the Queen speak in a half-dozen different languages, to people of various lands, and he was smitten with amazement. [11]
- Some of the Quaker City's passengers had arrived in Venice from Switzerland and other lands before we left there, and others were expected every day. [5]
- The Copper Rise property was mentioned among the other lands in the will in favor of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke, and the latter had gone ahead improving them and increasing their output in spite of the repeated threats of the railroad to bring suit. [9]
- True, the beautiful peace which he had enjoyed of late was over and, besides, anxiety for the dear ones in distant lands was constantly increasing. [10]
- To steal the paper on which an author has put his brain work into visible, tangible form is in all lands a crime, larceny, but to steal the brain work is not a crime. [4]
- For many years our own government had permitted the squandering of these resources by adventurous capitalists; and gradually, as we became a rich industrial nation, these capitalists sought profitable investments for their increasing surplus in foreign lands. [9]
- There were some others who desired, while they were legislating on this subject, that they should also give bounty lands to the volunteers of the War of 1812. [7]
- There were also other books-histories, biographies of distinguished people, travels in far lands, poems, especially those of Byron, Scott and Shelley and Moore, which she eagerly absorbed, and appropriated therefrom what was to her liking. [5]
- Property in lands or goods is due wholly and only to the labor man has put into it. [4]
- The foremost billows of the flood had now reached Amminadab's house, before which pasture lands extended as far as the eye could reach. [10]
- The botanical garden of Sydney covers thirty-eight acres, beautifully laid out and rich with the spoil of all the lands and all the climes of the world. [5]
- When the quantity of money shall be reduced, and consequently everything under individual control brought down in proportion, the price of those lands, being fixed by law, will remain as now. [7]
- The "lord proprietary" obtained the Queen's permission to name the new lands "Virginia," in her honor, and he had a new seal of his arms cut, with the legend, Propria insignia Walteri Ralegh, militis, Domini et Gubernatoris Virginia. [4]
- They certainly would not; for, as these Western States grew strong in Congress, the public lands passed away from them, and they got on the other side of the question; and the gentleman from Ohio [Mr. Vinton] was an example attesting that fact. [7]
- Whether elected or not, I go for distributing the proceeds of the sales of the public lands to the several States, to enable our State, in common with others, to dig canals and construct railroads without borrowing money and paying the interest on it. [7]
- If we mistake not we have heard her name mentioned in connection with the sale of the Tennessee Lands to the Knobs University, the bill for which passed the House last night. [5]
- My master, however, need have no fear of creditors; for though you may not yet know it, Sir Knight, there are generous noblemen in Nuremberg during the Reichstag who throw away castles and lands in his favour at the gaming table. [10]
- The mortgages on my Western Shore tobacco lands are foreclosed, and Wilmot House itself is all but gone. [9]
- Soon after that Mr. Bascom started on a voyage around the world in a steam yacht--a long and leisurely trip, for he was making collections, in all lands, of birds, butterflies, and such things. [5]
- It named in minute detail every item of property he owned in the world--houses, lands, sword, silver-gilt bowl, and so on--all the way down to his "second-best bed" and its furniture. [5]
- Collecting in the mind the detached pictures given to our eyes in all these brilliant and inspiring days, we realize afresh the variety, the extent, the richness of these northeastern lands which the Gulf Stream pets and tempers. [4]
- Three or four members of the Brigade had been there and located some timber lands on its shores and stored up a quantity of provisions in their camp. [5]
- But it gives me pleasure to feel, sir, that I am in a position to reimburse you, and likewise to loan you something until your lands begin to pay again. [9]
- Come and tell me of your adventures, and what strange lands you have been to see. [5]
- These changes touched me deeply, and I went away and joined the famous Quaker City European Excursion and carried my tears to foreign lands. [5]
- They traveled in many lands, and had many strange adventures. [5]
- They say my lord has to do with foreign lands now. [11]
- It did not look to persons residing east of the mountains as it did to those who lived among the public lands. [7]
- The way no longer led through the marsh, but through tilled lands, and crossed the ditches which irrigated the fields on wooden bridges. [10]
- It was made long ago by the Southern Indians as they threaded their way to the Hunting Lands of Kaintuckee, and shared now by Indian traders. [9]
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