I bought land and slaves, and built a great house in which I resolved to live happily, and in the enjoyment of all the pleasures of life to forget my past sufferings.

Although she felt at first a natural disappointment that she would not be allowed to labour in the mission field, she was able to look upward in her hour of trial and to say: "Tell my friends I never regretted leaving my native land for the cause of Christ.

He had never been in Rome, and I was delighted at the prospect of seeing that lovely land again, all blue sky and bright sun and smiling faces.

Wild with apprehensions of reaching the land without danger, he sat down and madly whittled a hole in the bottom of the boat, making it, as nearly as possible, such a one as a sword fish would be likely to cut.

" "You know as well as I do," said Dr. Webb, "that the company expects to make money by selling lands and town lots; and as you are not disposed to give the company a show, or share with me, I shall probably have to start another town near you.

He may cultivate his lands, improve his mind, educate his children; these are his serious occupations, affording every day some employment that is, at once, new and interesting: and, by way of relaxation, he has music, painting, and sculpture; sailing, riding, conversation, storytelling, and reading the news of what is passing, both in the valley and out of it.

Thou shalt hold again thy father's lands" "To what end, lord?

We did on plains and low lands what was meet; We cleared the springs and streams, the land to drain.

They gave her the land to do this.

The Treasury had lent seven millions sterling in 1846; five millions of it had been spent in making roads which were not needed nor desired, and one million was diverted from the wages fund to purchase land for this experiment.

Boglin owned the land and I used his money, so I gave up to him; but I'm through with the honer'ble ass now.

Germany has taken lands from Belgium, Serbia, Roumania, Russia, and the rest, but unless her digestion is as strong as her appetite, she will fail to keep them.

The place was marshy, and it was hard to find dry land for our night's lodging.

"The couple had now reached the landing below and, so far as I could tell, went into the room.

There is a story of Tolstoi in which a man is whispered by his god that he may possess such land as he can circle in a day.

If the Peloponnesian armies in irresistible strength wasted every spring her corn-lands, her vineyards, and her olive groves with fire and sword, she retaliated on their coasts with her fleets; which, if resisted, were only resisted to display the preëminent skill and bravery of her seamen.

"Your father had reason to hope that he would acquire those lands and rights; he did not know that I had been waiting for some years past to obtain them.

The French had granted lands in seigneuries.

The first thought of each of us, entering these new lands, whether merchant, soldier, educator, or missionary, should be to hold Christ aloft, that all tribes may come to His light, and kings to the brightness of His rising.

This was owing to fear of losing the reward of thirty crowns yearly for life which had been promised by their Catholic majesties to whoever should first discover land; and to prevent them from calling out "Land, land!"

"But," remarks the bishop in recording this, "we must try to effect more frequent landings.

Our voyage was prosperous, and after visiting many lands, and collecting in each place great store of goodly merchandise, I found myself at last in Bagdad once more with unheard-of riches of every description.

In the space of five suns we shall sweep the Palefaces into the sea, and rule all the land to the Eastern waters.

At first, the new settlers divided the land equally among all the inhabitants, one of their tenets being, that as there was no difference of persons in the next world, there should be no difference in sharing the good things of this.

Why take so much care About a tree that bears not any dates?" He answers: "I will demand of our great Lord of all To give us rain to cover all the land With pasturage and flowers.