560 Words to use with landing

"Surely you can have him point out a landing place," said the captain.

With a kind of theatrical sincerity he made successive public appearances as War Lord or William the Peaceful, as Artist, Poet, Architect, Biblical Critic, Preacher, Commercial Magnate, Generalissimo of land forces and Creator of a World Navy; and with Whitman he might well have said, "I can resist anything better than my own diversity.

It is said that after about thirty years, by reason of a difference in their industry and frugality, and of some families spending less than they made, and some more, the number of land owners was reduced to four hundred, and that fifty of these held one half of the whole; since which time the number of landed proprietors has declined with the population, though not in the same proportion.

"Our job's to work in a sun that knocks a white man down, and stew in the hot malaria damp the land breeze brings off at night.

So Chaucer, with less claim, received valuable offices and land-grants, which made him a wealthy man; and he was also sent on important missions in the company of nobles.

Other sections and quarter sections of land were entered at the land office by new corners.

"Who can this possibly be, Grace?Did you ever hear of such a person, and what right can he have to wish to see me?" "Admit him, by all means; it is your father's land agent, and he may wish to leave some message for my uncle.

[Footnote 3: The principal taxes in China are the land-tax, customs, salt monopoly, and personal service; which last is the source of much oppression to the lowest orders, who have nothing but their labor to contribute.

Towards the close of the Revolution, getting poor in fact by getting rich in Continental money, he endeavored to save himself by investing in Virginia land-warrants, went to Kentucky as a surveyor, and became possessed of sixteen hundred acres of that wilderness.

At the landing-stage by the boat-house I coiled it up as best I could and threw it in.

I will be a land-mark in time: I will be a pivot in history around which the earth shall turn.

The land laws had become so unworkable under this dual system that they had to be left as they were.

May not women as fresh recruits in a land army stamp their likes and dislikes on farm life?

About evening three land birds settled on the rigging of the ship and began to sing.

If he did, there might be too much money made out of land speculation.

Mariners detect the flowery perfume of land-winds far at sea, and sea-winds carry the fragrance of dulse and tangle far inland, where it is quickly recognized, though mingled with the scents of a thousand land-flowers.

My road lay through the "Half-Breed Tract," a fine section of Iowa, which the unsettled state of its land titles had appropriated as a sanctuary for coiners, horse thieves, and other outlaws.

"Land sakes, George, you must have had your own time with those housekeepers of yours!

Then came land animals, monstrous in growth, by the side of which the elephant dwindles to the diminutive stature of the dormouse.

They were not an avaricious set, either; for their parting ceremony, on embarking, was to pitch the last half-dollars of their advance on to the wharf, to be scrambled for by the land-sharks.

But the result was the same; feudal government, a graduated system of jurisdiction based on land tenure, in which every lord judged, taxed, and commanded the class next below him, of which abject slavery formed the lowest, and irresponsible tyranny the highest grade, and private war, private coinage, private prisons, took the place of the imperial institutions of government.

It has been the dominating factor in many absorbing controversies upon high policy regarding the ownership of land, or the taxation of land values, upon which we can touch but lightly here.

The functions of a war vessel were these: Defensively, to attack ships that come to bombard our forts, to attack ships that come to blockade us, to attack ships convoying a landing party, to attack the enemy's fleet, to attack ships interfering with our commerce; offensively, to bombard an enemy's ports, to blockade an enemy, to convoy a landing party, to attack the enemy's fleet, to attack the enemy's commerce.

He was on the point of foreclosing a mortgage, by which he would complete the ruin of an unlucky land-speculator for whom he had professed the greatest friendship.

His works are, Orders to be observed by the commanders of the fleets and land companies, under the conduct of Sir Walter Raleigh, bound for the South parts of America, given at Plymouth 3d May 1617.

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