Lands

Examples

• Secondly, In Pennsylvania there is no right of primogeniture, and lands, like moveables, are divided equally among all the children of the family. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In waste and uninclosed lands, any person who discovers a tin mine may mark out its limits to a certain extent, which is called bounding a mine. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• See what tidings that horn tells us of--to announce, I ween, some hership [12] and robbery which has been done upon my lands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• From the coast inland, stretch, between flowered lanes and hedges, rolling pasture-lands of rich green made all the more vivid by th e deep reddish tint of the ploughed fields. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• What thinkst thou of gaining fair lands and livings, by wedding a Saxon, after the fashion of the followers of the Conqueror? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• In Washington he has made his home, and there scientists of all lands call to pay their respects to the patriarch of American inventors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I neither was crushed nor elated by her lands and gold; I thought not of them, cared not for them. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• When the crown lands had become private property, they would, in the course of a few years, become well improved and well cultivated. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Very far they rode that night, and in the morning he stopped outside the lands of his clan, and dismounted beside a sandy river. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It would take away his title and his lands and his castles, and--it would take them away from Jane Porter also. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Where churches were being built he painted glass, where towns or nobles needed measurers or surveyors of their lands he worked for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Yet America has not so far reached the intense enthusiasm over flying that fills the lands of Europe. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They were prepared to tolerate his rule if they themselves might also be monarchs of their lands and businesses and trades and what not. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The lands in America and the West Indies, indeed, are, in general, not tenanted nor leased out to farmers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In a little while a swarm of Spanish adventurers were exploring the new lands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In the ancestral lands of the south-east men had already been sowing wheat perhaps for thousands of years. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Waste lands, of the greatest natural fertility, are to be had for a trifle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He was our captain to lead us from our native soil to unknown lands, our lawgiver and our preserver. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He exclaims, O masters, lords and rulers in all lands How will the future reckon with this man? William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The inhabitants of many different parts of Great Britain have not capital sufficient to improve and cultivate all their lands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The Jews were already a people dispersed in many lands and cities, when their minds and hopes were unified and they became an exclusive people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This was a partial concession to the natural political map, but much blood had still to run before the Turk was altogether expelled from these lands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The tribe, or the chief as the head of the tribe, owned the grazing lands; forest and rivers were the wild. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Even spies could not get near him, on account of the undergrowth and overflowed lands. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Then let us enact this law also for our guardians:--that they are neither to devastate the lands of Hellenes nor to burn their houses. Plato. The Republic.
• According to that valuation, the lands belonging to the bishop of Breslaw are taxed at twenty-five per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In some great districts the Church owns all the property--lands, watercourses, woods, mills and factories. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• New lands were offered them in Asia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Lands held by a noble tenure, at thirty-eight and one-third per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• From it sprang that tree of Christianity whose broad arms overshadow so many distant lands to-day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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