"Land" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... softened by his amusement, and they resumed their tramp, rising higher and higher as they kept up a diagonal course along the mountain slope; but the difficulties in the way, and the caution requisite in passing through what they felt to be a dangerous enemy's land, made the progress slow, and after a time they seated themselves for a rest upon one of the many moss-grown masses of lava rock they passed, beneath an umbrageous tree, in which a flock of tiny finch-like birds were twittering, ...
— Jack at Sea - All Work and no Play made him a Dull Boy • George Manville Fenn
... troubled herself with fancies that the doctor might, perhaps, suspect all the truth; and though she succeeded in dismissing the idea as absurd, yet the trouble which she experienced from it was sufficient to agitate her in many ways. That fever-haunted land of delirium, out of which she had of late emerged, was still near enough to throw over her soul its dark and terrific shadows. It needed but a slight word from the doctor, or from any one else, to revive the accursed memories of ...
— The Cryptogram - A Novel • James De Mille
... whom I hate. This pirate career suits me. What is society to me, whom it has ostracised? I was a gentleman once—quick at books, pleasing in company, shrewd in business. They say that I have power still, but lack integrity. Be it so! Better a freebooter at sea than upon the land. I have half made up my mind to evil. Hugenot, listen to me! I believe that were I to do one bad, dark deed, it would restore me ...
— Bohemian Days - Three American Tales • Geo. Alfred Townsend
... wood and take their pay in trees. These trees, the lads explained, were to be felled and used to construct a log cabin on the lake shore. As part of the bargain they asked for permission to use a section of Dr. Lyman's land that bordered the lake as ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters • Irving Crump
... be soon equal," said the beggar, looking out upon the strife of the waters"they are sae already; for I hae nae land, and you would give your fair bounds and barony for a square yard of rock that would be ...
— The Antiquary, Complete • Sir Walter Scott
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